# author-game-levels

Builds and refines readable, flat-plane Three.js game levels. Useful for tuning camera corridors, collision layers, motivated lighting, and browser playthroughs.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1200 installs · ★ 7001
- Author: MengTo
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/MengTo/Skills/tree/HEAD/agent-skills/game-development/author-game-levels/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/author-game-levels

## What it does

The skill treats level architecture as gameplay communication. Its core rule enforces a single flat plane. Stairs and ramps are strictly forbidden. Visual height belongs solely in non-walkable background dressing. Such props must never block camera angles or threat visibility.

The skill separates authored data, simplified collisions, flat navigation, and trigger zones. Navigation cannot rely on visual props alone. Local lighting requires strict inventory tracking. Each torch or lantern must link to an explicit emitter. Local lights must follow their emitters and switch off when destroyed.

Data checks reject walkable slopes and height shifts. The skill breaks on projects that depend on vertical traversal or multi-tiered platforms. Traversal fixtures run directly in the browser. They verify frame rates, draw calls, and touch controls on desktop and mobile.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill author-game-levels -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/author-game-levels/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/author-game-levels/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill author-game-levels -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/author-game-levels/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill author-game-levels -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/author-game-levels/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install MengTo/Skills author-game-levels
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/author-game-levels/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill author-game-levels -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/MengTo/Skills --path agent-skills/game-development/author-game-levels
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/author-game-levels/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill author-game-levels -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/MengTo/Skills/tree/HEAD/agent-skills/game-development/author-game-levels/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- design flat Three.js levels without height-changing traversal
- separate collision geometry, background dressing, and trigger zones
- link local light sources to visible emitter meshes
- verify traversal corridors and touch controls in mobile browsers

## Example prompts
- Verify that all spawn anchors and collision bounds stay on a single flat plane.
- Audit local lights and attach every lantern to a visible emitter ID.
- Run browser traversal fixtures to test camera framing and dodge clearance on mobile.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: author-game-levels
description: Author or revise readable, flat-world Three.js game levels. Use for movement and camera routes, collision and navigation, encounter zones, landmarks, objectives, pickups, motivated lighting, visibility, deterministic level data, or desktop and mobile playthrough verification.
---

# Author Game Levels

Treat architecture as gameplay communication. Every route, arena, gate, prop, and light must help the player read movement, threats, objectives, or state.

## Enforce one gameplay plane

Keep all collision, navigation, encounter routes, objectives, pickups, and player movement on one accessible plane.

- Do not add stairs, ramps, raised platforms, drop-offs, cliffs, bridges, ledges, pits, or vertical traversal.
- Do not change gameplay elevation for shortcuts, arenas, hazards, rewards, or visual variety.
- If visual height is requested later, keep it non-walkable background dressing. It must not alter navigation, camera occlusion, threat visibility, targetability, or player movement.

## Separate level systems

Maintain explicit, independently testable layers for:

- authored level data and stable zone/anchor IDs;
- visual geometry and non-walkable background dressing;
- simplified collision geometry;
- flat navigation data and movement clearance;
- encounter, enemy, gate, reset, pickup, objective, and exit zones.

Share stable IDs and transforms between layers, but never infer collision, navigation, or encounter boundaries from decoration alone.

## Lay out readable play

1. Define the architectural purpose of each space: traversal, orientation, combat, recovery, reward, transition, or objective.
2. Preserve clear movement, camera, and dodge corridors at the intended play distance.
3. Keep threats, pickups, exits, gates, and interaction targets visible before commitment.
4. Telegraph encounters through visible arena shape, approach, state change, and stable zone anchors.
5. Deliberately place arenas, gates, checkpoints, retry spawns, and reset paths. Prevent soft locks, duplicate rewards, hidden re-entry, and enemies pursuing through unrelated zones.
6. Use landmarks, lighting, contrast, and composition to guide without hiding hazards or making the route ambiguous.

## Motivate every local light

Attach every local torch, lantern, brazier, or similar light spatially to a visible emitter. Its position, range, color, intensity, shadowing, and occlusion behavior must match what that emitter appears able to produce.

- Forbid unexplained floating local lights.
- Keep a source-to-light inventory with emitter ID, light ID, attachment transform, type, range, color/intensity, occlusion intent, enabled state, and fallback behavior.
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