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<b>Built by</b> <a href="https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU"><b>AlterLab Creative Technologies Laboratory</b></a>

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<em>Not tied to any specific engine — these skills work for Godot, Unity, Unreal, and more.</em>

📋 Table of Contents

• 🎯 What Is This?
• ✨ Key Features
• 🗂️ Category Overview
• 🚀 Quick Start
• 🆕 What's New in v2.0.0
• 🧭 Where Do I Start?
• 📚 All 34 Skills
• ⚙️ How Skills Work
• 💡 Usage Examples
• 🛠️ Setting Up Your Game Project
• 🏗️ Architecture
• 📦 Genre Packs
• 🗂️ Project Structure
• 🔌 MCP Integrations
• 🤝 Contributing
• 📜 License
• 🙏 Credits

🎯 What Is This?

A comprehensive suite of 34 production-grade Claude AI skills for indie game developers — organized into 3 categories covering the full game development lifecycle from concept to launch.

Each skill transforms Claude into a domain-specific game dev expert with real design frameworks, structured output templates, and production-grade workflows.

[!TIP] How it works: Each skill is a structured .md prompt file. Drop it into a Claude Project or Claude Code, and Claude instantly becomes your game dev expert — with real industry frameworks, professional output templates, and deep domain knowledge.

✨ Key Features

🗂️ Category Overview

🚀 Quick Start

Option 1 — Claude Code CLI (Recommended)

# 1. Install GameForge into Claude Code
claude install github:AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab_GameForge

# 2. Start your first game project
claude> /game-start

# 3. You now have a GDD skeleton, tech stack recommendation, and milestone plan.

Option 2 — Claude Projects

1. Go to claude.ai → Projects → Create Project
2. Upload SKILL.md files from your category folder into the project's Knowledge section
3. Start chatting — Claude now has your skills loaded

Option 3 — Pick Individual Skills

Browse the skills/ folder and download only the ones you need. Every skill is a standalone .md file.

🆕 What's New in v2.0.0

🧭 Where Do I Start?

Not sure which skill to use? Pick your situation:

For full workflow walkthroughs, see docs/workflow-examples.md.

📚 All 34 Skills

🎬 Studio Agents — Your Virtual Game Studio Team (11 Skills)

🔧 Workflow Skills — Structured Dev Processes (20 Skills)

🎯 Engine Specialists — Deep Expertise for Your Engine (3 Skills)

⚙️ How Skills Work

Each .md skill file follows a consistent structure:

| name          | description                         |
|---------------|-------------------------------------|
| skill-name    | When to activate this skill...      |

# Skill Title

You are **RoleName**, a [role description]...

## Your Identity & Memory
## Your Core Mission
## Frameworks & Methods
## Output Templates
## Quality Standards

[!NOTE] Pro tip: Combine multiple skills in one Claude Project for a multi-expert team. For example, load Game Designer + Balance Check + Economy Designer for a complete game balance workflow.

💡 Usage Examples

Skills activate automatically based on user intent:

For complete end-to-end walkthroughs, see docs/workflow-examples.md. For common questions, see docs/FAQ.md.

🛠️ Setting Up Your Game Project

GameForge skills work out of the box for general questions. But to get engine-aware, project-specific guidance, copy a starter config into your game project.

# Copy the base config into your game project
cp starters/claude-config/CLAUDE.md /path/to/your-game/CLAUDE.md
mkdir -p /path/to/your-game/.claude
cp starters/claude-config/settings.json /path/to/your-game/.claude/settings.json

# Add your engine's config (pick one)
cat starters/godot/CLAUDE.md >> /path/to/your-game/CLAUDE.md    # Godot
cat starters/unity/CLAUDE.md >> /path/to/your-game/CLAUDE.md    # Unity
cat starters/unreal/CLAUDE.md >> /path/to/your-game/CLAUDE.md   # Unreal

Fill in the [BRACKETED PLACEHOLDERS] with your game's details — project name, genre, one-liner description. Everything else works out of the box.

Full setup instructions: starters/README.md

🏗️ Architecture

graph TD
    A["🧭 CLAUDE.md<br/><i>Routing & Config</i>"] --> B["🎬 Agents<br/><b>11 skills</b>"]
    A --> C["🔧 Workflows<br/><b>20 skills</b>"]
    A --> D["🎯 Engine Specialists<br/><b>3 skills</b>"]
    
    B --> E["📚 Shared Docs<br/><i>15 reference documents</i>"]
    C --> E
    D --> E
    
    E --> F["⚡ Hooks<br/><b>11</b>"]
    E --> G["📄 Templates<br/><b>20</b>"]
    E --> H["🚀 Starters<br/><b>3</b>"]
    E --> I["🎲 Genre Packs<br/><b>2</b>"]

    style A fill:#6366f1,stroke:#4f46e5,color:#fff
    style B fill:#3b82f6,stroke:#2563eb,color:#fff
    style C fill:#0d9488,stroke:#0f766e,color:#fff
    style D fill:#e11d48,stroke:#be123c,color:#fff
    style E fill:#8b5cf6,stroke:#7c3aed,color:#fff
    style F fill:#f59e0b,stroke:#d97706,color:#fff
    style G fill:#f59e0b,stroke:#d97706,color:#fff
    style H fill:#f59e0b,stroke:#d97706,color:#fff
    style I fill:#f59e0b,stroke:#d97706,color:#fff

📦 Genre Packs

Genre packs are in-repo reference material that enrich existing skills with genre-specific design patterns, balance frameworks, and ideation prompts. They are not standalone skills — they are consumed by game-brainstorm, game-designer, game-balance-check, and game-gdd-author when a genre is specified.

Want to contribute a genre pack? See the genre pack contribution guide and format spec.

🗂️ Project Structure

AlterLab_GameForge/
├── 📁 skills/
│   ├── 🎬 agents/              # 11 studio agent skills
│   ├── 🔧 workflows/           # 20 workflow skills
│   └── 🎯 engine-specialists/  # 3 engine-specific skills
├── 📁 genre-packs/             # Genre-specific reference material
│   ├── 🎲 roguelike/           # Permadeath, proc-gen, synergy systems
│   └── 📖 narrative/           # Branching, dialogue, consequence modeling
├── 📁 docs/                    # 15 shared knowledge base documents
├── 📁 hooks/                   # 11 session lifecycle hooks
├── 📁 templates/               # 20 starter templates for game dev artifacts
├── 📁 starters/                # Engine-specific project configs
│   ├── claude-config/          # Base config (all engines)
│   ├── godot/                  # Godot 4.x conventions
│   ├── unity/                  # Unity 6.x conventions
│   └── unreal/                 # Unreal Engine 5.x conventions
├── 📁 scripts/                 # Validation scripts (validate.sh)
├── 📁 .github/workflows/       # CI validation pipeline
├── 📄 CLAUDE.md                # Project-level Claude config & routing
├── 📄 marketplace.json         # Plugin manifest for Claude Code
└── 📄 package.json             # Project metadata

🔌 MCP Integrations

GameForge skills integrate with 34 verified MCP servers for game development — engine MCPs (Godot, Unity, Unreal), asset pipelines (Figma, ElevenLabs), project management (GitHub, Notion), and more.

Seven skills have built-in MCP sections: Producer, Code Review, QA Lead, Designer, Art Director, UX Designer, and Audio Director.

Full catalog and setup guides: docs/mcp-integrations.md

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🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

Quick ways to contribute:

• 🛠️ Improve an existing skill with better frameworks or templates
• ✨ Create a new skill following the architecture
• 🐛 Report issues or suggest improvements
• 📚 Add examples or use cases to documentation

git checkout -b improve/game-designer
# Edit skills/agents/game-designer/SKILL.md
git commit -m "improve: game-designer -- better economy balance models"
git push origin improve/game-designer

Full guide: CONTRIBUTING.md | Format reference: CLAUDE.md

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

MIT License — Copyright (c) 2026 AlterLab Creative Technologies Laboratory

🙏 Credits

<b>Built with ❤️ by <a href="https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU">AlterLab Creative Technologies Laboratory</a></b>

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<b>34 skills · 3 categories · 2 genre packs · 1 prompt away from expert-level game development</b>

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