level-design
Skill105 starsChanged 8 months agoMITView on GitHub
Shape level flow, pacing, navigation, encounter staging, and spatial teaching.
9 other projects use a version of this.
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Most recently taken up by
- gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skillstheir own version, first seen Oct 23, 2026
- rodrigo-guerraa/roblox-hubtheir own version, first seen Oct 17, 2026
- jammyfu/open-game-skillstheir own version, first seen Oct 11, 2026
- poorvith-mp/skills-gamedevtheir own version, first seen Aug 19, 2026
- ukanwat/aaabenchtheir own version, first seen Aug 15, 2026
- ukanwat/overtimetheir own version, first seen Aug 15, 2026
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Projects with it also use save-systems, game-ai and 9 more.
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ukanwatSkillsave-systems
Design save/load for game state — choosing what to serialize, file formats, save slots, atomic crash-safe writes, schema versioning and migration, and autosave. Engine-neutral. Use when the user mentions save system, save/load, game state persistence, save slots, autosave, save file corruption, or migrating old saves to a new version.
Also in 6 projects that use this
- ukanwatSkill
game-ai
Design NPC and enemy decision-making with finite state machines, behavior trees, steering behaviors, and A* pathfinding — engine-neutral algorithms that pair with the detected engine's navigation API. Use when building enemy AI, an FSM or behavior tree, steering/flocking, or pathfinding, or when the user mentions state machine, behavior tree, blackboard, A*, navmesh, seek, or patrol/chase.
Also in 5 projects that use this
- +9 more from ukanwat
Other versions9 projects use a version of this.
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Wrote their own version · 9
- gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills★ 6.4ksame name
- ukanwat/aaabench★ 399same name
- ukanwat/overtime★ 399same name
- ukanwat/selfstarter★ 399same name
- jammyfu/open-game-skills★ 12same name
- poorvith-mp/skills-gamedev★ 4same name
- jarrodmedrano/jarrod-claude-skills★ 2same name
- mattstruble/skills★ 2same name
- rodrigo-guerraa/roblox-hub★ 2same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
In this repository117 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .codex/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- .github/copilot-instructions.mdCopilot instructions
- .cursor/rules/00-project-context.mdcCursor rule
- .cursor/rules/01-engine-isolation.mdcCursor rule
- .cursor/rules/02-workflow.mdcCursor rule
- .cursor/rules/03-doc-sync.mdcCursor rule
- .cursor/rules/README.mdCursor rule
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- The first 60 shown.
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
3 rules. 0 are common, 3 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
0
Common
Most of the 8 edited versions we read keep these.
3
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
0
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 26
place pressure, relief, discovery, and decision points intentionally
- Distinctive: line 58
Keep this skill aligned with the relevant rules layer and current project documentation.
- Distinctive: line 59
If engine-specific constraints materially change the workflow, hand off to the matching engine skill or engine-specific reviewer.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 8 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Level Design
Purpose
Shape level flow, pacing, navigation, encounter staging, and spatial teaching.
Use When
- building levels, missions, dungeons, arenas, or traversal spaces
- players get lost or overwhelmed
- encounters need better pacing
Inputs
- core loop
- combat or traversal rules
- narrative beats
- content constraints
Process
- define the player path, beats, and teaching moments
- place pressure, relief, discovery, and decision points intentionally
- support readability, landmarks, and recovery from mistakes
- coordinate with UI, narrative, and combat timing
- review the space with playtest and traversal metrics
Outputs
- level beat map
- encounter flow notes
- spatial teaching plan
- revision targets
Quality Bar
- supports the core fantasy and player goals
- defines readable rules, edge cases, and feedback
- creates concrete hooks for tuning, telemetry, and QA
Common Failure Modes
- adding systems that do not serve the core loop
- shipping vague rules that QA and engineering must guess at
- tuning without instrumentation or hypotheses
Related Agents
- level-designer
- combat-designer
- narrative-designer
Related Commands
- level-beat
- playtest-report
- verify
Notes
- Keep this skill aligned with the relevant rules layer and current project documentation.
- If engine-specific constraints materially change the workflow, hand off to the matching engine skill or engine-specific reviewer.
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