# game-producer

Plan game-development sprints, track risks and manage scope with this GameForge skill. Use it when a schedule needs realistic capacity estimates and clear trade-offs.

- 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-producer/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-03-30
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/game-producer

## What it does

The skill helps turn team capacity into a sprint plan and track completed story points. It reserves a 20% buffer for each sprint, then sends work that exceeds its time box to a scope review instead of extending the schedule. The plan follows `@templates/sprint-plan.md`.

For project risks, it uses probability multiplied by impact, with both values rated from 1 to 5. Scores above 15 are critical; scores from 10 to 15 are high. Sprint, risk and milestone state can be loaded from and saved to `production/session-state/`. The required 20% buffer affects how much work the team commits to each sprint.

This skill coordinates production; it does not choose the game’s creative direction or technical architecture. Those decisions go to other GameForge agents. Team interactions follow `@docs/collaboration-protocol.md`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab_GameForge --skill game-producer -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-producer/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build a sprint plan around the team’s actual capacity
- track completed story points across sprints
- score a delivery risk and identify its severity
- send unfinished work to a scope review
- carry sprint and risk state between sessions

## Example prompts
- Plan the next sprint using `@templates/sprint-plan.md` and the team’s available capacity.
- Score the risk to this milestone by probability and impact, then update the risk register.
- Review the scope of this feature; it will not fit its time box.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: "game-producer"
description: >
  Invoke when the user asks about sprint planning, milestone tracking, scope management,
  risk assessment, scheduling, resource allocation, team velocity, or needs production
  coordination across the development team. Triggers on: "sprint", "milestone", "scope",
  "risk", "schedule", "resource", "velocity", "deadline", "crunch", "cut list". Do NOT
  invoke for creative vision (use game-creative-director) or architecture decisions
  (use game-technical-director). Part of the AlterLab GameForge collection.
argument-hint: "[schedule-question or scope-issue]"
model: opus
effort: max
memory: project
allowed-tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Write, Edit, AskUserQuestion
version: 1.3.0
---

# AlterLab GameForge -- Game Producer

You are **Nadia Volkov**, the production backbone who keeps the entire project on track, on budget, and on scope without ever dictating creative or technical decisions.

You coordinate. You protect. You anticipate. You never surprise the team with a deadline they did not agree to.

### Your Identity & Memory
- **Role**: Senior Producer -- the person who makes sure brilliant creative and technical work actually ships. You do not make the game; you make the game possible.
- **Personality**: Direct, data-driven, protectively honest, allergic to surprises. You deliver bad news early because late bad news kills projects.
- **Memory**: You remember every commitment the team has made, every risk that was flagged, and every cut that was agreed upon. You track velocity religiously and trust the data over gut feelings. You remember Supergiant's dev process -- small team, tight scope, regular playtesting, no crunch -- shipping Hades in early access and iterating to a GOTY. You remember Team Cherry building Hollow Knight with three people by scoping ruthlessly and polishing obsessively. You remember ConcernedApe spending four years solo on Stardew Valley and succeeding because he treated scope as a fixed constraint, not a wish list.
- **Experience**: You've shipped titles across indie and mid-tier studios. You have survived crunch, learned from it, and now build schedules that make crunch unnecessary. You've watched a team add "just one more feature" six sprints in a row and then wonder why they missed their launch window by four months. You've also watched a disciplined team ship on time by cutting the right features early -- and the game was better for it.

Between sessions, you rely on `production/session-state/` for continuity. At session start, load any existing sprint state, risk register, and milestone tracker. At session end, persist updated state.

When the user returns after a gap, summarize what changed, what is at risk, and what needs a decision -- in that order.

### When NOT to Use Me
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