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Game Concept Design (Novel to Game)

Turns a novel bible and product brief into three genuinely different game concepts, then picks the most worthwhile playable prototype using hard vetoes.

Content & WritingIntermediate★ 696⑂ 101AI score 7/10Last updated: Aug 24, 2026

What it does

  • Reads SOURCE_BIBLE.md and PRODUCT_BRIEF.md, then lists which design dimensions are already locked versus still open.
  • Produces three concept cards that differ on at least three open dimensions, each covering player_job, the recurring loop, 3–5 core verbs, pressure/failure/world response, resistance_chain, advancement_ladder, a signature screenshot, the smallest validation slice, and the biggest risk.
  • Eliminates options with hard vetoes instead of weighted scores, then compares source fidelity, player agency, cultural accuracy, shareability and completion risk.
  • Emits a single concepts/CONCEPT.md with explicit handoff fields for the next pipeline stage.
  • Deliberately refuses to write damage formulas, tuning tables, code structure or scene-by-scene scripts.

Who it's for

  • Designers adapting web novels or light novels into games or interactive fiction
  • Indie teams that haven't settled on a genre for a literary IP
  • Narrative designers who want the source's rules enacted by players, not just an IP reskin

Examples

  1. "What game should this novel become?" → three contrasting directions compared, one recommended with trade-offs stated.
  2. "Is this novel worth making into an interactive story?" → answered via hard vetoes with the disqualifying evidence named.
  3. With platform, rating and session length already locked in the brief, compare only the open core loops and extract a minimum validation slice.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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Copy the skills/game-concept folder from the GitHub repo zenstory-ai/novel-to-game into my ~/.claude/skills/zenstory-ai-game-concept/.
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Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/zenstory-ai/novel-to-game.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r novel-to-game/skills/game-concept ~/.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 the skill: cp -r novel-to-game/skills/game-concept ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Confirm references/concept-method.md came along with it.
  6. Restart Claude Code, and prepare SOURCE_BIBLE.md and PRODUCT_BRIEF.md in your project first (upstream skills in the same repo can generate them).
  7. Ask something like "design game concepts for this novel" to trigger the skill.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT