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How to focus on the present moment
How to cultivate empathy and understanding towards others
How to set personal and professional goals
Goal 1: Give players a sense of achievement
Leveling up is a way of acknowledging the player's efforts and congratulating them for doing a good job.
The more difficult it is to reach a certain level, the more meaningful the achievement feels. So in order for a level to have value, players need to struggle and overcome adversity to reach it. Higher levels require more XP and take longer to reach because the time invested is proportional to the reward.
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Goal 4: Control the flow of content
Levels help control:
- how players navigate the world (e.g. players will steer away from an area with enemies that are too powerful for them)
- how quickly players can kill monsters, which in turn controls how fast players can advance to the next ...
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Goals of XP and Levels
Experience points and levels are used to:
- Give players a sense of achievement
- Indicate how far a player is down the hero's journey
- Gradually introduce complex mechanics
- Control the flow of content
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Goal 2: Indicate how far a player is down the hero's journey
Levels describe the players growth as they overcome obstacles in the game. Every time they level up they become stronger and can fight more powerful enemies. This combat difficulty usually follows a step function, where fighting enemies becomes briefly easier onl...
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Goal 3: Gradually introduce complex mechanics
Battle mechanics in RPGs are too complicated to be shown to new players all at once. Instead, mechanics are introduced in understandable chunks as players level up.
At level 1 players have only the basic mechanics available, and as they level up they unlock new abil...
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