game-art-direction

game-art-direction is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zenstory-ai/novel-to-game. It costs 108 tokens per session (911 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for defining the visual and audio direction of a game from its design. It specifies how scenes, characters, interfaces, movement, colour, lighting, materials, sound, and key moments should work together.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a production art direction covering camera, composition, characters, environments, HUD feedback, text, accessibility, sound, and signature moments.
Why use it?
It turns broad art preferences into rules that make gameplay information readable and keep all screens and assets consistent.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the novel-to-game plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a production art direction covering camera, composition, characters, environments, HUD feedback, text, accessibility, sound, and signature moments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zenstory-ai/novel-to-game/game-art-direction
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 zenstory-ai/novel-to-game --skill game-art-direction
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zenstory-ai/novel-to-game

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install novel-to-game, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 911 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00108 $0.00911
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.00456
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00182
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00091

Measured 4d ago against content hash 94a69ae08c9a, 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-direction 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 4d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/game-art-direction/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

游戏美术与创意方向

定义玩家最终看见、听见和读懂的体验;资产怎样生产、使用什么渲染库、模型或供应商由构建阶段决定。

读取 art-direction-method.md。必须已有 GAME_DESIGN.mdPRODUCT_BRIEF.md;视觉服务玩法,不能用漂亮参考图重写游戏。

产物语言由 PRODUCT_BRIEF.md 锁定;未锁定时跟随对话语言,不默认产出中文。

继承目标平台、视口/朝向、画风、内容尺度、targetFinishexperienceProfile。视觉参考只借 声明的构图、材质、色光或信息原则,不复制他作角色、地图、界面和资产。原作文化与目标市场分别 研究,不用流行刻板符号替代原作身份。

设计

  1. 定义能区分正确与错误方案的视觉原则;时代题材分别锁定世界真实性、媒介风格与人物理想化程度;
  2. 为玩家、目标、威胁、奖励和地标建立镜头、焦点、轮廓、尺度与密度语法;
  3. 让颜色、光、材质和运动编码真实状态,并提供非颜色冗余、低动效表达与明度可读边界;
  4. 定义首屏焦点、HUD 信息层级、输入反馈、结果分级、失败与结果状态;
  5. 为环境、角色、交互物和关键道具定义共享世界语法与各自识别锚点;
  6. 定义目标语言的字体覆盖、阅读顺序、文本密度与文化符号边界;
  7. 为核心循环或最高视觉风险定义关键游戏时刻,说明玩家动作、压力、焦点和前后状态,不为每个界面凑数;
  8. 定义声音世界、功能反馈层级和音乐边界;语音只在确有独特价值时选择,并始终保留字幕/静音路径。

narrative-ledhybrid 的叙事层还要说明人物距离、朝向、遮挡和姿态如何表现关系变化,以及对白区 怎样保证阅读、历史回看、跳过与加速。

表现层读取已经裁决的状态、事件与知识权限:同一个“获得物件、隐瞒证词、公开承诺”可以换文字、镜头 或动画,但不能由表现代码另算一次效果,也不能向玩家或角色提前泄露未获知事实。

不要写着色器、拓扑、贴图规格、接口、文件格式教程或供应商参数。

输出

生成 design/ART_DIRECTION.md,包含:

  • targetFinish 与视觉原则;
  • 镜头/构图、世界/角色/道具语法、功能性色光材质;
  • HUD、反馈、运动/转场、语言/文化与声音方向;
  • 关键游戏时刻;
  • 必需与可降级资产,以及原创/授权边界和仍未确定的视觉风险。

只有 targetFinish、用户用途或高风险视觉问题确实需要时,才追加 design/VISUAL_TARGETS.md 与少量 持久目标图,条件见方法「关键游戏时刻与目标图」。

交付前在目标视口检查动作、压力与反馈可辨;关键时刻在实际界面而非概念海报中成立; 方向覆盖核心循环、失败和结果,构建无需重新发明风格或反馈,但仍保有实现自由。

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 4d ago Changed · -1 lines · -60 tokens per session 94a69ae08c9a
  2. 7d ago Changed · -21 lines cb205230e55d
  3. 13d ago First seen · 74 lines · 168 tokens per session scan A 1a798bab9818

Subscribe to this mod's changes

game-art-direction is a skill published in the GitHub repository zenstory-ai/novel-to-game (775 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 911 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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