narrative-design
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Build narrative structure, world logic, dialogue intent, and player motivation that support the game loop.
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- poorvith-mp/skills-gamedevtheir own version, first seen Aug 19, 2026
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- poorvith-mp/skills-gamedev★ 4same name
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The file
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4 rules. About 0 are common, 4 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 27
write or outline dialogue with implementation constraints in mind
- Distinctive: line 28
create a canon reference and naming consistency rules
- 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 an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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Narrative Design
Purpose
Build narrative structure, world logic, dialogue intent, and player motivation that support the game loop.
Use When
- story, dialogue, lore, or character arcs need structure
- narrative and gameplay feel disconnected
- content growth is making canon hard to manage
Inputs
- game pillars
- quest or mission structure
- world rules
- localization constraints
Process
- define narrative goals, arcs, and world rules
- link story beats to gameplay and objective flow
- write or outline dialogue with implementation constraints in mind
- create a canon reference and naming consistency rules
- plan subtitle, VO, and localization implications early
Outputs
- narrative brief
- canon notes
- dialogue or quest specs
- localization and VO considerations
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
- narrative-designer
- gdd-designer
- audio-designer
Related Commands
- gdd
- quest-design
- update-docs
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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