gamedev-skills

Gamedev Agent Skills

Bundle of 27 skills

Use it when:: You're building a game with an agent, in any engine, and want it to pull in the right game-dev know-how for each request.
It does:: The router detects your engine from project files, sorts the request into concepts, a genre and process steps, and reads only those skills, engine basics first.

router, create-game-assets, game-ai, ai-behavior-trees-utility-ai, procedural-gen, dialogue-systems, save-systems, audio-design, shader-programming, physics-tuning, level-design, input-systems, game-feel, game-ui-ux, camera-systems, performance-optimization, platformer, roguelike, rpg, fps-shooter, tower-defense, card-game, visual-novel, survival-crafting, puzzle, game-jam, prototype-fast

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 14.3K; top 36%
Weekly Downloads: 2.3K; top 19%

game-feel

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: A hit, jump, pickup or death works but feels weak, weightless or unsatisfying.
Juice means:: The brief, exaggerated responses that make an action feel good, such as a flash, a shake or a freeze; they always return to rest.

workflow local none animation design

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 14.3K; top 36%
Weekly Downloads: 2.3K; top 19%

game-ui-ux

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: You're building a HUD or a main, pause or settings menu, or fixing game UI that breaks at other resolutions or on a controller.
It does:: Lays UI out with anchors and containers, picks a scaling policy, insets for notches and TV overscan, sets gamepad focus and stacks screens.

workflow local none design accessibility

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 14.2K; top 36%
Weekly Downloads: 2.3K; top 19%

level-design

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: You're laying out a level and want it to play well before any art exists, or a level feels flat, confusing or unfair.
It does:: Sizes every gap and ledge from the character's jump and run numbers, blocks the level out in grey primitives, paces tension and rest, then playtests.

workflow local none design prototyping

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 11.8K; top 41%
Weekly Downloads: 2K; top 20%

performance-optimization

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: Your game's frame rate is low or uneven, it stutters, or it misses a target such as 60 FPS.
It does:: Sets a frame-time budget, profiles a repeatable worst-case scene, decides whether the CPU or the GPU is the bottleneck, fixes the biggest cost, then measures again.

workflow local none performance debugging

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 11.3K; top 42%
Weekly Downloads: 1.9K; top 20%

audio-design

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: You're laying out a game's mixer and volume settings, or music should dip under dialogue, react to play or stay on the beat.
It does:: Routes every sound through a few buses, maps settings sliders to decibels, adds ducking, varies repeated sounds and schedules events on the music's beat.

workflow local none audio

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 11.2K; top 43%
Weekly Downloads: 1.9K; top 21%

game-ai

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: You're writing enemy or NPC logic, such as patrol, chase, flee or guard, or need a path to the player.
It does:: Picks a decision model by complexity, keeps decisions apart from motion, paths on a grid, waypoint graph or navmesh, and steers along the waypoints.

workflow local none implementation architecture

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 11.2K; top 43%
Weekly Downloads: 1.9K; top 21%

camera-systems

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: A camera should follow the player smoothly and stay inside the level, or it jitters, snaps, shows past the edge or makes players queasy.
It does:: Sets the camera's rules by genre, smooths the follow independently of frame rate, adds a deadzone, look-ahead and bounds, and pulls 3D cameras in off walls.

workflow local none design animation

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 11.2K; top 43%
Weekly Downloads: 1.8K; top 21%

save-systems

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: You're adding save and load, slots or autosave, or old saves break after a patch.
It does:: Saves data rather than engine objects, stamps a schema version, writes to a temporary file then renames it, migrates old saves step by step, and autosaves to its own slot.

workflow local none architecture migration

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 11.1K; top 44%
Weekly Downloads: 1.9K; top 21%

input-systems

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: You're setting up controls, adding gamepad or touch support or a rebinding menu, or making jumps feel forgiving.
It does:: Maps keys and buttons to named actions, binds each per device, filters sticks with a radial deadzone, buffers early presses and builds a rebinding screen that catches conflicts.

workflow local none architecture accessibility

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 10.8K; top 45%
Weekly Downloads: 1.8K; top 21%

procedural-gen

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: You want maps, dungeons, terrain or item drops you don't author by hand, reproducible from a seed for debugging, daily challenges or shared worlds.
It does:: Threads one seeded random generator through all generation, picks noise, room placement or weighted tables by content, fills a plain grid, then checks the result is playable.

workflow local none generative-art implementation

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 10.8K; top 45%
Weekly Downloads: 1.8K; top 21%

create-game-assets

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: You need sprites, tilesets, backgrounds, icons, UI art, textures or 3D asset briefs that look like one game, not a pile of one-off generations.
It does:: Records the technical frame and a visual system, approves one hero asset at game scale, produces related assets as families, normalizes them with ordinary tools and imports them.

workflow local none image design ai-generation

Age: 3 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 10.8K; top 45%
Weekly Downloads: 2K; top 20%

physics-tuning

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: Motion jitters, fast objects pass through walls, stacks explode, or movement feels floaty, sticky or laggy.
It does:: Moves simulation into the fixed physics step, interpolates rendering between ticks, turns on continuous collision for fast bodies, tunes mass, drag and materials, and checks layers and masks.

workflow local none debugging

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 10.6K; top 46%
Weekly Downloads: 1.8K; top 22%

shader-programming

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: You're writing a vertex or fragment shader, building an effect such as dissolve, outline, rim light or vignette, or porting a shader between GLSL, HLSL and engines.
It does:: Tracks which stage and coordinate space it's in, drives effects with UVs and time, prefers mix and smoothstep over branches, and validates the source before testing visually.

workflow local none implementation performance glsl hlsl

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 10.5K; top 46%
Weekly Downloads: 1.8K; top 21%

dialogue-systems

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: You're adding NPC conversations, choice menus or story flags that change later dialogue.
It does:: Chooses between Ink, Yarn Spinner and a custom runner, defines what a node can yield, keeps variables apart from flow, uses line IDs for translation and walks every branch.

workflow local none architecture ink yarn-spinner

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 10.3K; top 47%
Weekly Downloads: 1.7K; top 22%

router

Only works as part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: You start any game-development request, or aren't sure which of the collection's skills applies.
It does:: Fingerprints the project to pick one of twelve engines, sorts the request into concepts, usually one genre at most, and process or shipping workflows, then reads only those skills.

router none none skill-discovery

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 10.2K; top 48%
Weekly Downloads: 1.7K; top 23%

rpg

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: You're building an RPG, JRPG or action RPG, or designing its leveling curve, damage formula, inventory or quest states.
It does:: Frames every system around the loop of explore, encounter, reward and grow, and lists the eight systems an RPG needs, with the knobs that tune each.

guidelines none none design architecture

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 9.8K; top 50%
Weekly Downloads: 1.7K; top 23%

prototype-fast

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: You want to know whether a mechanic or idea is fun before committing real time, or need something rough and playable fast.
It does:: Writes the one question, decides throwaway or keep before coding, sets a 30 to 90 minute timebox, builds only the core action in grey shapes and playtests it.

workflow local none prototyping scope-control

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 9.7K; top 50%
Weekly Downloads: 1.7K; top 23%

fps-shooter

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: You're building a game whose core verb is aim and shoot, or tuning time-to-kill, recoil, spread or aim feel.
It does:: Sets out the controller, shooting model, weapons, health, enemy AI and feedback to build, with a recommended default for each design knob.

guidelines none none design architecture

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 9.5K; bottom 50%
Weekly Downloads: 1.7K; top 23%

roguelike

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: You're making a turn-based, grid-based dungeon crawler where death ends the run and the world regenerates, as a roguelike or a roguelite.
It does:: Sets out the systems to build, the design knobs to tune and the bugs to avoid, with engine-neutral pseudocode.

guidelines none none design architecture

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 9.4K; bottom 49%
Weekly Downloads: 1.8K; top 21%

puzzle

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: You're making a board the player changes with moves and that resolves by rules: match-3, sokoban, sliding or logic-grid puzzles.
It does:: Sets out the board model, move validation, resolution loop, undo, scoring and level progression, with engine-neutral pseudocode.

guidelines none none design architecture

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 9.4K; bottom 49%
Weekly Downloads: 1.6K; top 24%

card-game

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: You're building a game whose objects are cards moving between zones: a deckbuilder, TCG or CCG, solitaire or roguelike deckbuilder.
It does:: Sets out card data, zones, draw and reshuffle, turn phases, resources and effect resolution, with engine-neutral pseudocode.

guidelines none none design architecture

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 9.3K; bottom 48%
Weekly Downloads: 1.6K; top 24%

platformer

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: You're making a Mario- or Celeste-like, or a jump feels floaty, unresponsive or unfair.
It does:: Sets out the controller, collisions, level geometry, hazards, checkpoints, camera and juice, and tunes the jump by outcome instead of raw numbers.

guidelines none none design architecture

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 9.3K; bottom 48%
Weekly Downloads: 1.6K; top 24%

survival-crafting

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: The player gathers, crafts, manages hunger, thirst and temperature, and builds a base against escalating threats.
It does:: Sets out eight must-have systems, from resource nodes and inventory to threats and saving, with a knob table and engine-neutral pseudocode.

guidelines none none design architecture

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 9.3K; bottom 48%
Weekly Downloads: 1.6K; top 24%

tower-defense

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: You're building a game where placed towers fire on waves of enemies walking a path, or balancing its waves and economy.
It does:: Sets out the path, waves, towers, targeting, economy, lives and prep UI, with a knob table and engine-neutral pseudocode.

guidelines none none design architecture

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 9.2K; bottom 47%
Weekly Downloads: 1.6K; top 24%

visual-novel

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: The game is mostly reading branching text over character art and backgrounds: a visual novel, dating sim or story-choice game.
It does:: Sets out the script, text box, characters, backgrounds, choices, story flags, saves, conveniences and audio, with engine-neutral pseudocode.

guidelines none none design architecture

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 9.2K; bottom 47%
Weekly Downloads: 1.6K; top 24%

game-jam

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: You're entering a timed jam such as Ludum Dare, GMTK Jam or Global Game Jam, or asking what you can build in a weekend.
It does:: Takes you from the rules and the theme to one concept, a scope that fits the clock, an early playable loop and a build submitted before the deadline.

workflow local none planning scope-control prototyping

Age: 4 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 8.9K; bottom 46%
Weekly Downloads: 1.6K; top 24%

ai-behavior-trees-utility-ai

Part of Gamedev Agent Skills

Use it when:: An enemy or NPC needs decisions beyond a simple state machine, and you want your own reusable decision code rather than an engine's built-in assets.
Behavior tree means:: A tree of conditions and actions checked each decision step, each node reporting success, failure or still running to its parent.

workflow local none architecture implementation csharp

Age: 2 months
Stars: 7.9K; #94
Total Downloads: 8.4K; bottom 42%
Weekly Downloads: 1.7K; top 23%

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