# build-game-map-editor

Guides the creation of production-linked browser map editors for Three.js and isometric games. It keeps drafts isolated from live gameplay saves.

- 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/build-game-map-editor/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/build-game-map-editor

## What it does

This skill outlines the architecture for a paused browser-based director view built on top of your production world. The runtime engine freezes combat, progression, and live simulations while designers edit. Coordinates stay locked to the flat gameplay plane, rejecting nonzero Y values instead of flattening them silently.

Controls rely on an orthographic camera, raycast selection proxies, and grid snapping on X and Z axes. The inspector displays source-derived properties, including enemy facing, aggro radius, leash boundaries, and patrol waypoints. Exports act strictly as proposals. Drafts cannot mutate live gameplay state until an external validation pass and a code review finish.

Internal editor routes are guarded by dynamic routing, strict IP allowlists, HMAC-signed session tokens, and secure HTTP-only cookies.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install MengTo/Skills build-game-map-editor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/build-game-map-editor/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill build-game-map-editor -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/build-game-map-editor/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build an isolated browser director view for Three.js games
- render enemy aggro, leash, and patrol overlays in world space
- prevent draft edits from corrupting live gameplay save files
- protect private editor routes with IP allowlists and HMAC tokens

## Example prompts
- Build a paused Three.js map editor that locks the Y coordinate to zero and isolates drafts
- Add enemy aggro, leash bounds, and patrol waypoint overlays to our isometric inspector
- Secure the internal map editor route with client IP allowlisting and HMAC session cookies

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: build-game-map-editor
description: Build, extend, or audit production-linked browser map editors for Three.js and isometric games. Use when Codex needs to create a private director view, derive a versioned editor document from authored placements, add outliner, layer, selection, drag, snap, inspector, or camera controls, expose enemy aggro, leash, or patrol overlays, implement local draft import, export, undo, and reset, secure an editor route with IP and password sessions, or validate and release a map editor without mutating live gameplay data.
---

# Build Game Map Editor

Build a paused director tool around the real game world. Let designers inspect and draft placements quickly while keeping production data, gameplay saves, and release integration explicit.

## Establish the authority boundary

Inspect the repository before designing the editor:

- Locate authoritative world, zone, encounter, spawn, pickup, gate, interactable, and enemy-AI definitions.
- Locate the production world builder and reusable runtime assets.
- Locate collision, navigation, flat-plane, persistence, and deployment contracts.
- Identify the repository-approved browser, tests, release path, and access-control requirements.

Do not create an independent map source of truth. Derive the initial editor document from production definitions through adapters. Keep stable source IDs so every draft value can be traced back to authored code.

State the lifecycle in the UI and implementation:

`production source -> editor document -> isolated draft -> validated export -> reviewed source integration`

Treat export as a proposal. Do not claim that a draft changes gameplay until a separate integration updates authoritative source, passes gameplay tests, is committed, and is released.

## Define a versioned editor document

Use a small serializable document instead of storing Three.js objects or React state.

Include:

- a fixed schema identifier and document version;
- a world or level version;
- a save timestamp;
- stable entity `id`, `sourceId`, `kind`, label, zone, position, facing, and typed settings;
- explicit entity kinds such as enemy, player spawn, pickup, interactable, and gate.

Keep editor position data on the gameplay plane. For a flat-world game, use `{ x, y: 0, z }` and reject nonzero Y rather than silently flattening imported data.

Validate at every import and integration boundary:

- require the exact schema and supported version;
- cap document size, file size, entity count, coordinates, and setting ranges;
- reject duplicate IDs, non-finite values, unknown kinds, invalid bounds, and malformed nested settings;
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