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game-design-fundamentals

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By rondorkerin/gamestack (GitHub) · design · 34 stars · scanned at commit 0419358

The foundational design discipline — the spine the rest of the pack cross-links to. Use when judging whether a mechanic is fun, auditing a system for balance, designing difficulty/flow, setting reward schedules, checking player motivation, or diagnosing "my choices don't matter" / "this is grindy" / "this difficulty spike feels cheap". Covers interesting decisions (Sid Meier), flow & difficulty curves, intrinsic/extrinsic motivation (Self-Determination Theory), feedback & agency, and choice arc…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'game-design-fundamentals' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'game-design-fundamentals' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named game-design-fundamentals already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/rondorkerin/gamestack' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '0419358df31455e63820bdd89f3c5b446665f604' -- 'plugins/gamestack/skills/game-design-fundamentals' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/gamestack/skills/game-design-fundamentals' ~/.agents/skills/'game-design-fundamentals' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'game-design-fundamentals' ~/.claude/skills/'game-design-fundamentals' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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