godot-genre-action-rpg — Claude Code skill for Godot ARPGs

What godot-genre-action-rpg does

The skill covers the moving parts of an Action RPG in Godot: hitbox and hurtbox combat, damage driven by stats, leveling with skill trees, procedural item generation with affixes and rarity tiers, gear slots, and abilities with cooldowns and mana cost. It ships GDScript files such as hitbox_component.gd, aoe_physics_query.gd, loot_generator.gd, combat_damage_calculator.gd and threaded_inventory_loader.gd. Several are marked mandatory, so the agent reads them instead of writing its own CombatController from scratch.

A separate section lists anti-patterns. Linear damage scaling, defense stats stacking to 100%, skipping hit recovery, hitbox math in _process() instead of _physics_process(), float equality checks, stats stored as Nodes rather than Resources, a missing duplicate() on shared resources. These are the usual places where balance and frame time fall apart, and the skill blocks them outright.

The skill sits in a chain: godot-project-foundations → godot-characterbody-2d → godot-combat-system → godot-rpg-stats → godot-inventory-system → godot-ability-system, continuing to godot-monte-carlo-balancer. If your project is not built on those foundations yet, you start at the front of the chain. Everything here assumes Godot and GDScript, so other engines get nothing from it.