Basics of Game Design

Experience Points and Leveling Up

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team to come up with a simple formula. e example of an Experience

Level Chart (Table 6.3) shows what happens as a human barbarian

goes up in level. In this example, the Experience Level is shown in

the rst column. e number of Experience Points the player needs

to gather to go up a level appears in the second column; in this case,

the warrior goes from level 1 to level 2 when the player collects a

ninth Experience Point. e next column indicates how many extra

points the player is given at each level reached to spend on the char-

acter’s attributes. e next three columns show the automatic rises

in value ...