An open letter to the games industry (about XP icons for RPG games)

Created on 2022-11-26T04:14:02-06:00

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The icon for an XP bar is a potato.

After 20+ years of game development there is no consensus as to what icon should be used to represent a player's experience points.

In a chat room of a text-based RPG the developer asked what to use. People gave random answers until one said "a potato" and then most people in the room followed up by agreeing.