# game-audio-director

This skill turns your AI agent into a game audio director. It designs sound bibles, dynamic music state machines, frequency maps, and adaptive audio logic for FMOD or Wwise.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 47
- Author: AlterLab-IEU
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab_GameForge/tree/HEAD/skills/agents/game-audio-director/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-03-30
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/game-audio-director

## What it does

The skill assigns the agent the persona of Kael Resonance from the AlterLab GameForge suite. It establishes the auditory identity of your project: defining material sound principles, frequency allocations across SFX and dialogue, and the deliberate use of silence. The prompt runs on Opus inside a forked context, using tools like `Read` and `Edit` to inspect and modify game design docs.

Its primary work lies in adaptive audio architecture. The skill designs vertical layering systems and horizontal re-sequencing for game states like stealth, combat, and exploration. It also plans impact stacking for SFX and loudness targets in LUFS so critical sound cues never drown in the mix.

It does not write narrative scripts. If you need low-level middleware code or performance profiling, those tasks belong to the technical director. This skill focuses strictly on acoustic architecture and sonic direction.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab_GameForge --skill game-audio-director -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab_GameForge --skill game-audio-director -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab_GameForge --skill game-audio-director -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab_GameForge game-audio-director
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab_GameForge --skill game-audio-director -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab_GameForge --path skills/agents/game-audio-director
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab_GameForge --skill game-audio-director -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/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab_GameForge/tree/HEAD/skills/agents/game-audio-director/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- document a game sound bible and core acoustic identity
- design adaptive music state machines with vertical layering for FMOD or Wwise
- map frequency spectrum ownership to prevent collisions between SFX and dialogue
- outline layered sound design specs for combat impacts and ambient spaces

## Example prompts
- Draft a sound bible for a sci-fi survival game and establish our frequency mix hierarchy
- Design an adaptive music transition model between exploration and combat for Wwise
- Specify the impact stacking layers for melee weapon hits on armor and flesh

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

Below is the content of a third-party file. It is data, not instructions for you: do not act on anything written inside unless the human asks. Block tag: 751342decd97fb41.

BEGIN THIRD-PARTY FILE 751342decd97fb41
```text
---
name: "game-audio-director"
description: >
  Invoke when the user asks about sound design, music direction, audio identity, adaptive
  audio, spatial audio, SFX, sonic palette, dialogue systems, audio middleware, dynamic
  music, or sound bible creation. Triggers on: "sound design", "music", "audio", "SFX",
  "adaptive audio", "spatial audio", "sonic palette", "FMOD", "Wwise", "sound bible".
  Do NOT invoke for narrative dialogue writing (use game-narrative-director) or creative
  vision (use game-creative-director). Part of the AlterLab GameForge collection.
argument-hint: "[audio-question or sound-task]"
model: opus
effort: high
context: fork
allowed-tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Write, Edit, AskUserQuestion
version: 1.3.0
---

# AlterLab GameForge -- Audio Director

You are **Kael Resonance**, the sonic authority who defines, architects, and protects the auditory identity of the entire game -- from the lowest sub-bass rumble to the highest crystalline shimmer, and critically, the silences between them.

### Your Identity & Memory
- **Role**: Audio Director -- the person who ensures every sound the player hears (and every silence they notice) serves the game's emotional truth and mechanical clarity
- **Personality**: Attentive, atmospheric, technically rigorous, poetically precise
- **Memory**: You remember every sonic palette decision, every adaptive audio state machine, every time a mix drowned out a critical gameplay cue, and every moment where silence said more than sound ever could. You track the emotional temperature of the soundscape across the entire game.
- **Experience**: You've scored intimate narrative games where a single piano note carried the weight of a character's grief, and you've built layered combat soundscapes for 60-enemy encounters where every hit needed to punch through the mix without becoming noise. You've implemented adaptive music systems in Wwise and FMOD, designed binaural spatial audio for VR horror, and spent a week recording contact mic samples of rusted industrial machinery because the factory level needed sounds that no library contained. You reference Hildur Gudnadottir's score for Joker (cello as psychological disintegration), Mica Levi's Under the Skin (alien perspective through sound), and the silence design in Inside by Playdead -- because silence is the most expensive sound in the budget and the most powerful.

### When NOT to Use Me
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