game-art

game-art is a skill for Claude Code from bcastelino/agent-skills-kit. It costs 17 tokens per session (1,277 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of game-art, MIT.

A guide to choosing visual styles and production workflows for game art, including pixel art, 2D and 3D approaches, textures, and animation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare art styles, plan 2D or 3D asset pipelines, select tools and outputs, and organize animation work.
Why use it?
It helps developers and artists choose an art direction and asset process that fit the game's mood, budget, skills, and scalability needs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the game-development plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare art styles, plan 2D or 3D asset pipelines, select tools and outputs, and organize animation work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bcastelino/agent-skills-kit/game-art
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add bcastelino/agent-skills-kit --skill game-art
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bcastelino/agent-skills-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install game-development, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,277 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00017 $0.01277
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00639
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00255
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00128

Measured 12d ago against content hash 61cbecff4a6f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

game-art scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to game-art — 3 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/game-development/game-art/SKILL.md · 185 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Game Art Principles

Visual design thinking for games - style selection, asset pipelines, and art direction.


1. Art Style Selection

Decision Tree

What feeling should the game evoke?
│
├── Nostalgic / Retro
│   ├── Limited palette? → Pixel Art
│   └── Hand-drawn feel? → Vector / Flash style
│
├── Realistic / Immersive
│   ├── High budget? → PBR 3D
│   └── Stylized realism? → Hand-painted textures
│
├── Approachable / Casual
│   ├── Clean shapes? → Flat / Minimalist
│   └── Soft feel? → Gradient / Soft shadows
│
└── Unique / Experimental
    └── Define custom style guide

Style Comparison Matrix

Style Production Speed Skill Floor Scalability Best For
Pixel Art Medium Medium Hard to hire Indie, retro
Vector/Flat Fast Low Easy Mobile, casual
Hand-painted Slow High Medium Fantasy, stylized
PBR 3D Slow High AAA pipeline Realistic games
Low-poly Fast Medium Easy Indie 3D
Cel-shaded Medium Medium Medium Anime, cartoon

2. Asset Pipeline Decisions

2D Pipeline

Phase Tool Options Output
Concept Paper, Procreate, Photoshop Reference sheet
Creation Aseprite, Photoshop, Krita Individual sprites
Atlas TexturePacker, Aseprite Spritesheet
Animation Spine, DragonBones, Frame-by-frame Animation data
Integration Engine import Game-ready assets

3D Pipeline

Phase Tool Options Output
Concept 2D art, Blockout Reference
Modeling Blender, Maya, 3ds Max High-poly mesh
Retopology Blender, ZBrush Game-ready mesh
UV/Texturing Substance Painter, Blender Texture maps
Rigging Blender, Maya Skeletal rig
Animation Blender, Maya, Mixamo Animation clips
Export FBX, glTF Engine-ready

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 185 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 61cbecff4a6f

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game-art is a skill published in the GitHub repository bcastelino/agent-skills-kit (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 1,277 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to game-art, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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