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pacing-and-the-player-journey

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

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

Use when designing, auditing, or generating the macro arc of an experience — how engagement rises and falls across an encounter, a session, a level, and an entire playthrough. Covers the interest curve and fractal pacing, tension/rest rhythm, novelty cadence and mid-game sag, nested engagement loops and retention ethics, first-hour pacing by genre, and the procedural pacing director algorithm. Triggers on "pacing", "tension curve", "interest curve", "the game drags", "mid-game sag", "player jou…

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/'pacing-and-the-player-journey' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'pacing-and-the-player-journey' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named pacing-and-the-player-journey 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 "$d" checkout --quiet '0419358df31455e63820bdd89f3c5b446665f604' -- 'plugins/gamestack/skills/pacing-and-the-player-journey' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/gamestack/skills/pacing-and-the-player-journey' ~/.agents/skills/'pacing-and-the-player-journey' && 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/'pacing-and-the-player-journey' ~/.claude/skills/'pacing-and-the-player-journey' (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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