Game Development Discipline Skills

Cross-engine concepts that load alongside whichever engine skill applies — AI, procedural generation, save systems, shaders, game feel and more.

Install

npx skills add gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills

14 skills

• audio-design

  Implement game audio practice — bus/mixer architecture and gain in decibels, ducking (sidechain), adaptive/dynamic music via layering and re-sequencing, SFX variation, and beat…

• camera-systems

  Build game cameras that feel good — 2D follow with a deadzone, look-ahead, smoothing, and level-bounds clamping; 3D third-person orbit with collision and first-person look; plus…

• create-game-assets

  Plan, generate, source, normalize, and validate cohesive visual game assets. Use for art direction, style bibles, sprites, tilesets, backgrounds, UI art, icons, textures, concept…

• dialogue-systems

  Build branching dialogue and narrative — a node/choice graph with conditions, variables, and localization hooks — and choose between authoring tools Ink and Yarn Spinner or a…

• game-ai

  Design NPC and enemy decision-making with finite state machines, behavior trees, steering behaviors, and A* pathfinding — engine-neutral algorithms that pair with the detected…

• game-feel

  Add "juice" and game feel that makes actions satisfying — screen shake, hit-stop/freeze frames, tweened/eased motion, squash & stretch, knockback, and layered audio-visual…

• game-ui-ux

  Design and build game UI/UX — HUDs, menus, and overlays — that survive every screen: anchor- based responsive layout, resolution/aspect scaling and safe areas, keyboard/gamepad…

• input-systems

  Architect game input — action mapping (abstracting keys into named actions), rebinding with conflict detection and persistence, multi-device support (keyboard, gamepad, touch)…

• level-design

  Design and build playable levels — the blockout/whitebox-to-playable workflow, player metrics and grid layout, pacing and flow (tension/rest curve), gating and the critical path…

• performance-optimization

  Find and fix game performance problems methodically — measure with the engine profiler first, reason about the frame-time budget, locate the CPU-vs-GPU bottleneck, then apply the…

• physics-tuning

  Tune game physics for stable, good-feeling motion — fixed vs variable timestep, render interpolation, mass/gravity/drag, continuous collision detection (CCD) to stop tunneling…

• procedural-gen

  Generate game content procedurally — seeded deterministic RNG, value/Perlin/ Simplex noise for terrain and heightmaps, grid dungeon generation (rooms + corridors, BSP, random…

• save-systems

  Design save/load for game state — choosing what to serialize, file formats, save slots, atomic crash-safe writes, schema versioning and migration, and autosave. Engine-neutral…

• shader-programming

  Write game shaders from cross-engine fundamentals — the vertex→fragment pipeline, coordinate spaces, UV math, and common 2D/3D effects (tint, UV scroll, dissolve, outline, fresnel…