game-art

game-art is a skill for Claude Code from DDS-Solutions/AI-TadPole-OS. It costs 17 tokens per session (1,394 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of game-art, MIT.

A guide to visual design for games, including choosing an art style, planning art assets, and directing the overall look.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when selecting between styles such as pixel art, flat graphics, hand-painted textures, or 3D visuals, and when planning how game artwork is made and maintained.
Why use it?
It helps turn a desired mood or audience into practical visual choices and a workable art process.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when selecting between styles such as pixel art, flat graphics, hand-painted textures, or 3D visuals, and when planning how game artwork is made and maintained.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dds-solutions/ai-tadpole-os/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 DDS-Solutions/AI-TadPole-OS --skill game-art
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DDS-Solutions/AI-TadPole-OS

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 1,394 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 91% 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 $0.01394
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00697
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00279
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00139

Measured 10d ago against content hash dd001b89cb45, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 10d 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

91% identical to game-art — 9 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.

.agent/skills/game-development/game-art/SKILL.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

[!IMPORTANT] AI Context & Knowledge Heritage

  • Subsystem: Agent Skills Registry / game-development
  • Architecture: @docs ARCHITECTURE:Documentation
  • Failure Path: Information drift, legacy terminology, or documentation mismatch.
  • Observability: Traceability via execution/parity_guard.py ([SKILL])

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 · 193 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. 10d ago First seen · 193 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A dd001b89cb45

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game-art is a skill published in the GitHub repository DDS-Solutions/AI-TadPole-OS (8 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 1,394 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to game-art, differing in 9 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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