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Game combat skill polish

Scores and improves game combat skills and spells using blind judging of filmed footage

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Repository
MengTo/Skills
Stars
7,187
Licence
MIT
Files
13 files

What it does

Teaches an AI agent a structured workflow for reviewing and improving the visual and timing quality of video game attacks and spells. The agent films casts from a game in a headless browser on a stepped clock, builds contact sheets and close-ups, has two fresh judge subagents score them blind against a readability or art rubric, and then recommends or applies fixes such as making results land on the hit frame or modelling a hero prop. It is aimed at game projects, not general coding.

Great for

  • Game developers polishing spell, ability or attack animations and effects
  • Technical artists who want repeatable, blind-scored reviews of combat visuals
  • Teams rebuilding a skill to match a named reference game

Skip it if

  • Non-game projects, since it assumes a game dev server with review-only hooks that must be built for each game (the skill cannot work without them)
  • Quick one-off visual feedback, because the full workflow filming, judging and rounds takes many steps

Try asking

  • “Score all the combat skills in my game out of 10 for readability and art”
  • “Rebuild the fire nova spell so it reads as itself and the damage lands on the impact frame”
  • “Make my warrior's charge attack look more like the reference, and keep iterating until it scores 7 or higher”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Game combat skill polishInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 13 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    game-dev-combat-skill-polish.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip game-dev-combat-skill-polish.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip game-dev-combat-skill-polish.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Create a project reference file (references/<project>.md) with your review hooks, harness settings and scores so far, so the agent does not have to rediscover them.
  • Always name which rubric a score comes from, and treat the lower of two blind judge scores as the result.
  • Read the scripts and set the environment variables (BASE, OUT, HOOK) yourself before running film.mjs, and point it only at a local dev server.

What's inside

  • references/rubric-art.md
  • references/rubric-readability.md
  • scripts/beforeafter.py
  • scripts/close.py
  • scripts/film.mjs
  • scripts/judge-set.py
  • scripts/merge.py
  • scripts/perf.mjs
  • scripts/probe.mjs
  • scripts/scenarios.example.mjs
  • scripts/strips.py
  • SKILL.md
  • templates/judge-prompt.md

Redistributed unmodified from MengTo/Skills under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.