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Game World & Experience Design

Converges a chosen game concept into a single GAME_DESIGN document covering the player promise, core loop, minimal systems, level pacing and a playable prototype slice.

Content & WritingAdvanced★ 754⑂ 107AI score 7/10Last updated: Aug 26, 2026

What it does

  • Takes SOURCE_BIBLE.md, the selected CONCEPT.md and PRODUCT_BRIEF.md as required inputs and produces one compact design/GAME_DESIGN.md.
  • Enforces an 11-part output contract: experience contract, 3–5 core verbs with short/long loops, world rules and information visibility, three-stage growth arc, a representative flipping decision, spatial/camera/level beats, feedback–failure–restart, optional narrative appendix, language and hand-off boundaries, an executable prototype slice, and a validation slice.
  • Keeps scope honest: one core system plus at most two support systems; anything whose removal doesn't break the loop is not promoted to a system.
  • Defines a replayable 10–30 minute slice (fixed initial state, seed, input sequence, expected state and feedback) so design risk gets tested early.
  • Deliberately avoids filenames, functions, storage keys, shaders and art pipeline — those belong to later build stages.

Who it's for

  • Designers adapting novels or story IP into games.
  • Indie teams that keep writing lore encyclopedias instead of playable cause-and-effect.
  • Narrative designers who need branching, consequence and ending-payoff rules to be reproducible.

Examples

  1. "Design the game world for this concept" → GAME_DESIGN draft with core loop and world-response rules.
  2. "Design the branching story structure, scenes and consequences" → scene spine, character agendas, branch convergence, ending payoff.
  3. "Give me the minimum slice to prototype" → biggest design risk plus a seed-based replayable test scenario.

· · · 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/zenstory-ai/novel-to-game/HEAD/skills/game-world-design/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-world-design folder from the GitHub repo zenstory-ai/novel-to-game into my ~/.claude/skills/game-world-design/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/zenstory-ai/novel-to-game.git /tmp/novel-to-game && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/novel-to-game/skills/game-world-design ~/.claude/skills/

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

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/zenstory-ai/novel-to-game.git
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy this skill: cp -r novel-to-game/skills/game-world-design ~/.claude/skills/
  5. (Recommended) Copy the whole pipeline, since this stage depends on upstream skills: cp -r novel-to-game/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/
  6. Restart Claude Code and place SOURCE_BIBLE.md, CONCEPT.md and PRODUCT_BRIEF.md in your project folder.
  7. Ask something like "design the game world and levels" to trigger the skill.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT