# build-game-monster-system

A skill that builds rigged monsters for Three.js and web action games: asset contract, sockets, hurtboxes, combat states.

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

## What it does

The skill walks an agent through building, integrating and auditing monsters as gameplay runtime assets rather than decorative meshes. Before any work it reads `references/monster-contract.md` and checks the real content model: combat events, the enemy state machine, the collision API, camera distance and the asset loader.

Four layers stay separate. `MonsterDefinition` holds authored facts and budgets, `MonsterRig` the semantic hierarchy with joints and sockets, `MonsterRuntime` the state and timers, and `MonsterViewAdapter` drives poses, VFX and LOD from runtime state. The rig uses `+Y` up, `+Z` forward, meters and a ground-contact root. Limb segments are real joint chains, so shoulder motion travels through the elbow to the wrist. Visual meshes stay out of physics by default, with simple solid, navigation, hurt and attack shapes defined separately.

Contacts come from authoritative action IDs and collision events. Animation can expose a normalized phase, but it never creates damage on its own. Verification runs on deterministic fixtures: active-window boundaries, action ID stability across attack phases, ID renewal per loop. An asset fails if it has floating attachments, missing mandatory states, pose-derived damage or socket drift across LOD changes. That is worth checking before the monster reaches a build.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

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

## When to use it
- build a rigged monster for a web action game runtime
- check that sockets and hurtboxes survive LOD switching
- keep authored combat values out of the visual pose
- define combat states from idle through defeated
- create deterministic fixtures for attack phases

## Example prompts
- Build a monster against `references/monster-contract.md` and verify the attack sockets
- Audit the rig: joints, colliders, combat states and LOD
- Add fixtures for the startup, active and recovery boundaries of every attack

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: build-game-monster-system
description: Build, integrate, audit, or refactor rigged monsters for Three.js and web action games. Use for monster asset contracts, procedural or imported creature rigs, semantic joints and sockets, hurtboxes and attack volumes, combat animation states, enemy-runtime adapters, LODs, deterministic review fixtures, and validating that every monster follows one shared system.
---

# Build Game Monster System

Build monsters as gameplay-compatible runtime assets, not decorative meshes.

## Establish the contract

Read [references/monster-contract.md](references/monster-contract.md) before implementation or audit. Check the real game content model, combat events, enemy state machine, collision API, camera distance, and asset loader before extending the contract.

Use related skills when applicable:

- Use `img2threejs` for image-driven procedural reconstruction and its staged visual gates.
- Use `build-hybrid-game-assets` to choose procedural versus imported representation and record provenance/budgets.
- Use `tune-enemy-ai` for perception, intent, movement, and behavior transitions.
- Use `design-action-combat` for startup/active/recovery timing and authoritative contact.

## Separate four layers

1. `MonsterDefinition`: serializable authored facts, tags, scale, stats, attacks, locomotion, asset provenance, and budgets.
2. `MonsterRig`: semantic transform hierarchy, joints, sockets, secondary-motion anchors, materials, and LOD visuals.
3. `MonsterRuntime`: current state, timers, target intent, health/posture, cooldowns, and authoritative combat events.
4. `MonsterViewAdapter`: drives rig poses, VFX, audio, visibility, and LOD from runtime state; never decides hits from rendered pose.

Do not duplicate authored combat values in the rig or UI.

## Build the rig

- Use `+Y` up, `+Z` forward, meters, and a ground-contact root.
- Keep `root -> motion -> body` stable across every monster and LOD.
- Parent limb segments as real joint chains so shoulder/hip motion propagates through elbows/knees to wrists/ankles.
- Name semantic equivalents for nonhumanoids; do not fake absent anatomy.
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