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3d-graphics-and-render…
Use when designing, choosing, or reviewing the rendering layer of any real-time 3D (or 2D-with-lighting) game — the rasterization pipeline, PBR vs stylized/NPR…
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Use when designing or building a content generator — terrain, dungeons, quests, items, lore, history — or diagnosing generated content that feels samey, generic, or soulless. Covers the "10,000 bowls of oatmeal" problem, perceptual vs. mathematical uniqueness, the
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$ npx -y skills add rondorkerin/gamestack --skill procedural-generation --agent claude-codeHow it fires
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Use when designing or building a content generator — terrain, dungeons, quests, items, lore, history — or diagnosing generated content that feels samey, generic, or soulless. Covers the "10,000 bowls of oatmeal" problem, perceptual vs. mathematical uniqueness, the
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procedural-generation.SKILL.mdname: procedural-generation
description: Use when designing or building a content generator — terrain, dungeons, quests, items, lore, history — or diagnosing generated content that feels samey, generic, or soulless. Covers the "10,000 bowls of oatmeal" problem, perceptual vs. mathematical uniqueness, the handcrafted-anchor + constrained-fill hybrid, voice-consistent corpora, multiplicative systems, and tying generation to meaning. Core skill for headless / AI-authored games. Triggers on "procedural generation", "procgen", "generator", "my generated content is samey", "infinite content", "world generation", "AI-authored content".
Procedural Generation
How to make generators whose output is *perceptually* rich, not just mathematically infinite — the central skill for a headless, AI-authored game.
When to use this
- Designing any generator (terrain, dungeons, quests, items, NPCs, lore, history)
- Diagnosing generated content that reads as samey / generic / soulless
- Deciding the handcrafted-vs-procedural ratio
- Setting up an AI authoring engine that needs one coherent voice
Scope
This is the *how to generate* knowledge skill. Its companion is **`procgen-review`** — the process skill that *gates* generated output against these principles (oatmeal test, fanfic test, sameness scan). Generate with this; review with that.
Related: `open-world-design` (generating space), `worldbuilding-and-lore` + `ai-authored-content-coherence` (generating lore coherently), `systemic-emergent-design` (multiplicative systems).
How the pieces fit
- **`GUIDE.md`** — the *why*: the oatmeal problem, perceptual uniqueness, the hybrid model, corpus voice, intentionality/local logic, multiplicative systems, curated randomness, apophenia. Cited.
- **`CHECKLIST.md`** — the *what to do*: Do/Don't + test-for criteria.
The one idea to anchor on
> **Perceptual uniqueness is the only metric that matters.** You can generate 10,000 mathematically-unique bowls of oatmeal; the player still just sees oatmeal (Kate Compton). Intentionality — constraints, handcrafted anchors, local meaning, and a single voice — is what separates great procedural content from infinite filler.
Start with `GUIDE.md`; gate everything you generate with `procgen-review`.
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name: procedural-generation description: Use when designing or building a content generator — terrain, dungeons, quests, items, lore, history — or diagnosing generated content that feels samey, generic, or soulless. Covers the "10,000 bowls of oatmeal" problem, perceptual vs. mathematical uniqueness, the handcrafted-anchor + constrained-fill hybrid, voice-consistent corpora, multiplicative systems, and tying generation to meaning. Core skill for headless / AI-authored games. Triggers on "procedural generation", "procgen", "generator", "my generated content is samey", "infinite content", "world generation", "AI-authored content".
Procedural Generation
How to make generators whose output is *perceptually* rich, not just mathematically infinite — the central skill for a headless, AI-authored game.
When to use this
- Designing any generator (terrain, dungeons, quests, items, NPCs, lore, history)
- Diagnosing generated content that reads as samey / generic / soulless
- Deciding the handcrafted-vs-procedural ratio
- Setting up an AI authoring engine that needs one coherent voice
Scope
This is the *how to generate* knowledge skill. Its companion is **`procgen-review`** — the process skill that *gates* generated output against these principles (oatmeal test, fanfic test, sameness scan). Generate with this; review with that.
Related: `open-world-design` (generating space), `worldbuilding-and-lore` + `ai-authored-content-coherence` (generating lore coherently), `systemic-emergent-design` (multiplicative systems).
How the pieces fit
- **`GUIDE.md`** — the *why*: the oatmeal problem, perceptual uniqueness, the hybrid model, corpus voice, intentionality/local logic, multiplicative systems, curated randomness, apophenia. Cited.
- **`CHECKLIST.md`** — the *what to do*: Do/Don't + test-for criteria.
The one idea to anchor on
> **Perceptual uniqueness is the only metric that matters.** You can generate 10,000 mathematically-unique bowls of oatmeal; the player still just sees oatmeal (Kate Compton). Intentionality — constraints, handcrafted anchors, local meaning, and a single voice — is what separates great procedural content from infinite filler.
Start with `GUIDE.md`; gate everything you generate with `procgen-review`.
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