alterlab-gameforge

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Not tied to any specific engine — these skills work for Godot, Unity, Unreal, and more.

📋 Table of Contents

• 🎯 What Is This?
• ✨ Key Features
• 🗂️ Category Overview
• 🚀 Quick Start
• 🆕 What's New in v2.0.0
• 🧭 Where Do I Start?
• 📚 All 34 Skills
• ⚙️ How Skills Work
• 💡 Usage Examples
• 🛠️ Setting Up Your Game Project
• 🏗️ Architecture
• 📦 Genre Packs
• 🗂️ Project Structure
• 🔌 MCP Integrations
• 🤝 Contributing
• 📜 License
• 🙏 Credits

🎯 What Is This?

A comprehensive suite of 34 production-grade Claude AI skills for indie game developers — organized into 3 categories covering the full game development lifecycle from concept to launch.

Each skill transforms Claude into a domain-specific game dev expert with real design frameworks, structured output templates, and production-grade workflows.

[!TIP] How it works: Each skill is a structured .md prompt file. Drop it into a Claude Project or Claude Code, and Claude instantly becomes your game dev expert — with real industry frameworks, professional output templates, and deep domain knowledge.

✨ Key Features

	Feature	Description
🎮	Studio Agents	11 autonomous agents form a virtual game studio — Creative Director, Producer, Designer, QA Lead, and more
🔄	Workflow Skills	20 structured dev processes — from brainstorming to launch, sprints to post-mortems
🎯	Engine Specialists	Deep expertise for Godot 4, Unity 6, and Unreal Engine 5 with platform-specific patterns
📦	Genre Packs	Roguelike and Narrative genre packs with design patterns, balance frameworks, and reference games
✅	CI Validated	486 automated checks via validate.sh + GitHub Actions pipeline
🔄	MCP Integrations	34 verified MCP servers — engine MCPs, asset pipelines, project management tools

🗂️ Category Overview

	Category	Skills	Focus Areas
🎬	Studio Agents	11	Creative Director, Technical Director, Producer, Game Designer, Narrative Director, Art Director, Audio Director, QA Lead, UX Designer, Economy Designer, Accessibility Specialist
🔧	Workflow Skills	20	Game Start, Brainstorm, Design Review, Code Review, Sprint Plan, Prototype, Playtest, Balance Check, Launch, Team Orchestrator, and 10 more
🎯	Engine Specialists	3	Godot 4 (GDScript/C#), Unity 6 (C#/ECS), Unreal Engine 5 (C++/Blueprint)

🚀 Quick Start

Option 1 — Claude Code CLI (Recommended)

# 1. Install GameForge into Claude Code
claude install github:AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab_GameForge

# 2. Start your first game project
claude> /game-start

# 3. You now have a GDD skeleton, tech stack recommendation, and milestone plan.

Option 2 — Claude Projects

1. Go to claude.ai → Projects → Create Project
2. Upload SKILL.md files from your category folder into the project's Knowledge section
3. Start chatting — Claude now has your skills loaded

Option 3 — Pick Individual Skills

Browse the skills/ folder and download only the ones you need. Every skill is a standalone .md file.

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🆕 What's New in v2.0.0

	Change	Details
🔧	3 new workflow skills	Game Jam Mode (48-72h compressed workflows), CI Pipeline (engine-specific CI/CD with Steam/itch.io deployment), GDD Author (guided section-by-section authoring)
🎯	Engine deepening	Networking, animation, VFX, AI, and material system sections added to all 3 engine specialists
📦	2 genre packs	Roguelike (888 lines) and Narrative (943 lines) — design patterns, balance frameworks, and ideation prompts grounded in shipped games
✅	CI validation	486 automated checks via validate.sh + GitHub Actions pipeline
📊	Quality rubric	5-dimension scoring system (Trigger/Depth/Consistency/Usefulness/Voice) with 8+ minimum bar
📖	AI-native gamedev guide	Honest assessment of AI tools for game development — what ships today vs what's hype

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🧭 Where Do I Start?

Not sure which skill to use? Pick your situation:

Your situation	Run this	What happens
"I have nothing — just a vague idea"	/game-start	Bootstraps a GDD skeleton, picks your tech stack, builds a milestone plan
"I have a concept and want to explore it"	/game-brainstorm	Structured ideation with diverge/converge phases, concept scoring, market validation
"I have code but no docs"	/game-reverse-document	Generates design documentation from your existing codebase
"I need to plan my next sprint"	/game-sprint-plan	Task breakdown, dependency mapping, risk flags, velocity estimation
"I'm preparing to launch"	/game-launch	Store page prep, release checklist, patch cadence, community management plan
"I need my code reviewed"	/game-code-review	Architecture review, performance audit, engine best practices
"I want to check my game's balance"	/game-balance-check	Statistical validation — Monte Carlo, distribution analysis, EV calculations

For full workflow walkthroughs, see docs/workflow-examples.md.

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📚 All 34 Skills

🎬 Studio Agents — Your Virtual Game Studio Team (11 Skills)

#	Skill	What It Does
1	Creative Director	Defines and guards creative vision, design pillars, and tonal identity
2	Technical Director	Architects engine setup, performance budgets, and tool pipelines
3	Producer	Manages scope, schedule, milestones, risk, and cross-team coordination
4	Game Designer	Designs core mechanics, progression systems, economy, and balance tuning
5	Narrative Director	Crafts story architecture, dialogue systems, lore bibles, and branching narratives
6	Art Director	Establishes visual style, asset pipelines, UI art direction, and style guides
7	Audio Director	Designs music direction, SFX libraries, adaptive audio, and mixing strategies
8	QA Lead	Builds test plans, bug taxonomies, regression suites, and quality gates
9	UX Designer	Designs onboarding flows, accessibility, HUD, and usability testing
10	Economy Designer	Designs virtual economies — currency flows, sink/source modeling, monetization ethics
11	Accessibility Specialist	Drives inclusive design — motor, visual, auditory, cognitive accommodations, EAA compliance

🔧 Workflow Skills — Structured Dev Processes (20 Skills)

#	Skill	What It Does
1	Game Start	Bootstraps a new project — GDD skeleton, tech stack, milestone plan
2	Brainstorm	Structured ideation with diverge/converge, concept scoring, market validation
3	Design Review	Reviews a GDD for completeness, consistency, and feasibility
4	Code Review	Reviews game code for architecture, performance, and engine best practices
5	Sprint Plan	Plans a dev sprint with tasks, dependencies, and risk flags
6	Prototype	Guides rapid prototyping — scope the core loop, build minimal playable, evaluate
7	Playtest	Structures playtest sessions — goals, metrics, observer guides, feedback synthesis
8	Balance Check	Analyzes game balance with Monte Carlo, distribution analysis, EV calculations
9	Launch	Prepares release and post-launch ops — store pages, patch cadence, community
10	Team Orchestrator	Coordinates multiple agents with spawn recipes for complex tasks