Simply create a product on your store that matches the name of the inventory item in your game and follows the custom SKU convention listed below to sell any number of any item directly from your website. This means you don’t owe any third party service for handling the transaction for you.
WUSKU_INV_{Item}_{Qty}
Example 1:
Let’s say you want to sell an item called “sword”, simply create a product on your website and give it the SKU WUSKU_INV_Sword_1. You are done. You can now make the product look pretty on the website but that was all you needed to do to make it sellable on the website and make it available in-game.
Example 2:
Let’s say you want to sell lives refills as singles, a 5 pack or a value pack of 20. Simply create a variable product or three products and give them the following SKUs:
WUSKU_INV_Lives_1
WUSKU_INV_Lives_5
WUSKU_INV_Lives_20
Now price them accordingly and you are good to go…
Explanation
When a player buys something on your website the inventory is stored to the database. The next time they start the game or the next time you fetch their inventory inside your game any online purchases will reflect on all platforms/devices they are playing on
Now that you know “This player has 3 Swords” it is up to you to decide how you want to display that in your store, what assets to spawn, what boosts to award… you are not limited in any way. Inventory online is tracked numerically but in-game you have full control over what represents it in the game world!
- Online purchases are logged also so you have a record of who bought what when
- Includes a control panel section to view / manage player's inventory. I.e. give players items, update their quantities or remove items completely. You have full control