# game-sprint-plan

Turn a game sprint goal into small tasks with priorities and dependencies. The skill also factors in team capacity and time to test how the work feels in play.

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

## What it does

The skill helps define one goal for a sprint, split work into tasks estimated at no more than a day, and sort them into Must, Should, Could, and Won’t tiers. It maps dependencies between disciplines too: design can precede asset creation, followed by code integration and QA.

For capacity planning, it uses the team’s actual velocity and reserves 20% of capacity for unexpected work. Sprint decisions can draw on recent commits, open GitHub issues, previous sprint data, active branches, and milestone files. Velocity and last-sprint details are read from project files when available. Tasks longer than a day run against the skill’s decomposition rule, so larger pieces need breaking down before they fit the plan.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

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

## When to use it
- Set a clear goal for a game development sprint
- Break a feature into tasks estimated at a day or less
- Schedule work around cross-discipline dependencies
- Plan capacity using the team’s recorded velocity
- Choose which lower-priority work to cut when capacity is tight

## Example prompts
- Plan the next game sprint around the open GitHub issues and set one clear goal.
- Break the work for this milestone into tasks estimated at a day or less.
- Sort these sprint tasks by priority and map their dependencies.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: "game-sprint-plan"
description: >
  Invoke when the user needs to plan a development sprint, break down tasks, schedule
  game work, or organize a sprint with cross-discipline dependencies. Triggers on:
  "sprint plan", "task breakdown", "development planning", "scheduling", "sprint
  backlog". Do NOT invoke for scope evaluation (use game-scope-check) or retrospectives
  (use game-retrospective). Part of the AlterLab GameForge collection.
argument-hint: "[milestone or focus area]"
model: opus
effort: high
disable-model-invocation: true
allowed-tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Write, AskUserQuestion
version: 1.3.0
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# AlterLab GameForge -- Sprint Planning Workflow

Game development sprints fail for different reasons than software sprints. A SaaS team struggles with unclear requirements and shifting priorities. A game team struggles with cross-discipline dependencies and the fundamental unpredictability of "fun." You can spec out an inventory system perfectly, build it to spec, and discover in playtest that it makes the game worse. Supergiant's sprint model (documented in their GDC talks) accounts for this by reserving explicit "discovery time" in every sprint -- time allocated to test whether what they built actually feels good, not just whether it works.

Sprint planning for games must build in structured discovery time, explicit scope tiers that flex without chaos, and a dependency model that respects the sequential nature of art-to-integration pipelines. This workflow produces a concrete sprint plan document a team can execute against.

### Purpose & Triggers

Use this workflow when:
- A team is about to start a new development sprint
- A solo developer wants to structure their next 1-2 weeks of work
- After a sprint retrospective, when planning the next iteration
- When a milestone is approaching and work needs to be decomposed
- The user finished `game-brainstorm` or `game-design-review` and needs to turn
  design decisions into executable tasks

Problems this solves:
- Sprints with vague goals that cannot be evaluated as done or not done
- Tasks estimated at "a few days" that actually take two weeks
- Art and code tasks planned in parallel when art must finish first
- Teams that commit to more work than their capacity allows every sprint
- Risks that were obvious in retrospect but invisible in planning
- No velocity tracking, so every sprint's estimates are guesses
- Scope creep disguised as small additions that accumulate into missed deadlines

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