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Game Art Direction

Turns an approved game design doc into a production-grade art direction bible covering style, camera, functional color, HUD, motion and audio.

Design & UIAdvanced★ 617⑂ 93AI score 7/10Last updated: Aug 8, 2026

What it does

It reads your approved GAME_DESIGN.md and produces design/ART_DIRECTION.md plus design/VISUAL_TARGETS.md. Instead of collecting pretty reference art, it locks down the visual language that makes gameplay readable.

  • 3-5 core visual principles plus anti-principles that rule bad options out
  • Camera/board framing, focus order, silhouette separation for player, target and threat
  • Color, light and material that carry function and state, with non-color redundancy for colorblind readability
  • Motion and transition specs: press/confirm feedback, result tiers, floating-text triple (core color + outline + verification frame), reduce-motion fallbacks
  • Sound and music direction, with a voice strategy only if an adoption test passes
  • A signature moment per screen/mode with a beat table and safe-area rectangles
  • A coverage-table appendix proving every level, mode and unit got direction

Who it's for

  • Designers and directors adapting novels or scripts into playable games
  • Teams that already picked a style but lack the specs needed to brief artists and engineers
  • Narrative-heavy projects needing dialogue legibility, character staging, and visualization of hidden relationship state

Examples

  1. "Set the art direction for our pixel roguelike" → an ART_DIRECTION.md with threat silhouette rules, damage feedback tiers, and win/lose audio layers.
  2. For a narrative-led visual novel → adds dialogue font-size floors, line width, a signature frame of a character shifting attitude, and rules for showing affinity through address terms and staging rather than numbers.
  3. Generates a visual target pack for title, exploration and climax views with explicit failure examples ("must not still look like basic geometry blockout") that QA can check against.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

Paste this into Claude to use the skill without installing anything.

Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/worldwonderer/novel-to-game/HEAD/skills/game-art-direction/SKILL.md

What I want: (describe your task here)

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↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install in Claude Code

Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code

Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/game-art-direction folder from the GitHub repo worldwonderer/novel-to-game into my ~/.claude/skills/game-art-direction/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/worldwonderer/novel-to-game.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r novel-to-game/skills/game-art-direction ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/worldwonderer/novel-to-game.git
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skill: cp -r novel-to-game/skills/game-art-direction ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Verify that references/art-direction-method.md came along — the skill reads that method file.
  6. Restart Claude Code. With an approved PRODUCT_BRIEF.md and GAME_DESIGN.md in your project, ask "define the art direction for this game" to trigger it.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT