Inventory implementation

Question

So i have a firearm class/scene that i inherit from to make new guns and i want to implement for now a simple inventory that stores ammo and weapons.

So i'm wondering Should i have the inventory inside of the player script or should i implement it somewhere else like in a singleton?
The guns will need to interact with the inventory to reload ammo i suppose, so having easy access to the inventory by making it a singleton, could maybe be good? Or should i have the inventory in the Player script and then just have a reference variable to the player in the Gun script so that the Guns have access to the ammo in the inventory?

Not sure what implementation would be good

Vesiculate

Answer 1

I'm partial to creating component systems and then using dependency injection to hook up different systems. In this scenario, my player scene would have a gun component and an inventory component. The gun component would have a reference to inventory component for making queries about ammo. I like this method because I could create an enemy scene and give it the same functionality by including the two components.

Creating an inventory singleton is perfectly acceptable too. Both methodologies are legit solutions.

Serinaserine