awesome-gamedev-agent-skills

67 game-dev skills for your AI coding agent — install once, and a router loads the right skill for whatever you're building.

Agent Skills are small capability files an AI agent loads only when it needs them. This repo gives your agent 67 game-dev skills and a router that picks the right ones for you. You describe what you're building; the agent loads the matching engine and task skills before it writes code.

• Cross-engine. Godot, Unity, Unreal, Phaser, PixiJS, three.js, Bevy, pygame, LÖVE, Roblox.

• You don't pick skills. The router detects your engine and task and loads only what fits.

• Art direction, not one-off generations. The asset workflow locks a visual target, builds families, normalizes outputs deterministically, and checks them inside the game.

• Built to trust. Every skill is written from primary docs, version-pinned to a stated engine release, and checked by a validator. Current baselines and upgrade policy live in version support.

Contents

• Quick start

• What you can ask

• How the router picks skills

• Catalog

• Agent compatibility

• Contributing

Quick start

One command, any agent. The skills CLI detects the coding agent you already use and installs the router plus all 67 skills into the right place:

npx skills add gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills

Add --list to preview first, -g to install for every project, or -a <agent> to target a specific tool (-a cursor, -a claude-code, -a gemini-cli, …). The same SKILL.md files load natively in Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Kiro, and dozens more — there's nothing to convert.

Claude Code plugin (alternative). This repo is also a Claude Code plugin marketplace, so you can install it with Claude's own commands:

claude plugin marketplace add gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills
claude plugin install gamedev@awesome-gamedev-agent-skills

Building in only one engine? Install a smaller bundle — router plus your engine:

claude plugin install router@awesome-gamedev-agent-skills
claude plugin install godot@awesome-gamedev-agent-skills    # or: unity · unreal · web-engines · other-engines

Prefer to copy the files by hand, or want the exact per-tool paths? See docs/INSTALLATION.md.

Want to read the catalog as web pages instead? Every skill, engine group, and per-agent install path is browsable at gamedev-skills.github.io/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills, generated straight from the SKILL.md files in this repo.

Then just talk to your agent — see below.

What you can ask

Describe the task in plain language. The router figures out the skills:

You say Skills it loads for you

"add a double jump to my Godot player" godot-2d-movement + platformer

"make an inventory for my Unity RPG" unity-scriptableobjects + rpg + save-systems

"procedural dungeon roguelike in Godot" godot-tilemap + procedural-gen + roguelike

"make a cohesive pixel-art player, enemies, and tiles" create-game-assets + the detected engine importer

"how should I design save slots?" save-systems

"publish my game on itch with butler" itch-publish

You never type the skill names on the right. That's the router's job.

How the router picks skills

You never name a skill. On each request the router does three things:

• Detects your engine from project files — a project.godot means Godot, a *.uproject means Unreal, and so on. If it can't tell, it just asks.

• Reads your request for the task — a concept (AI, shaders, saving), a genre (platformer, roguelike), or a shipping step (game jam, Steam).

• Loads only the matching skills, in order: engine basics first, then the concept, then any genre glue. It re-routes if you switch to something new.

That's why "add a double jump to my Godot player" loads godot-2d-movement + platformer and nothing else.

The full algorithm — every engine fingerprint, the task-to-skill table, and how engine, discipline, genre, and workflow skills compose — lives in the router skill itself: router/SKILL.md. In short: engine selection is exclusive (exactly one engine), while disciplines, genres, and workflows are additive on top.

Catalog

67 skills across 8 categories — each links to its SKILL.md below.

Engines

Godot — 15 (skills/godot/) · Godot 4.7

Skill Scope

godot-gdscript GDScript language: typing, lifecycle, @export, signals, idioms

godot-nodes-scenes Scene tree, node composition, instancing, autoloads, PackedScene

godot-signals-groups Event-driven design with signals + groups

godot-2d-movement CharacterBody2D kinematic movement, move_and_slide, slopes

godot-tilemap TileMapLayer/TileSet: autotiling, terrain, collision/nav layers

godot-physics Rigid/Area/Static bodies (2D+3D), collision layers, raycasts

godot-ui-control Control nodes: anchors, containers, themes, focus nav

godot-animation AnimationPlayer, AnimationTree, Tween

godot-shaders Godot shading language: 2D canvas_item + 3D spatial shaders

godot-3d-essentials 3D nodes, cameras, lighting, environment/post, GridMap

godot-resources Custom Resource classes, .tres, data-driven design

godot-audio AudioStreamPlayer, buses, effects, sync-to-beat

godot-multiplayer High-level multiplayer: MultiplayerAPI, RPCs, spawner/sync

godot-export Export presets/templates, platform builds, headless CLI export

godot-csharp C#/.NET in Godot: bindings, signals as events, GDScript interop

Unity — 8 (skills/unity/) · Unity 6.3 LTS (6000.3)

Skill Scope

unity-csharp-scripting MonoBehaviour lifecycle, component model, coroutines, serialization

unity-input-system New Input System: actions, bindings, action maps, devices

unity-physics Rigidbody, colliders, layers, joints

unity-animation Animator Controllers, state machines, blend trees, humanoid IK

unity-scriptableobjects Data architecture with ScriptableObject

unity-tilemap-2d 2D Tilemap/Tile Palette, rule tiles, tilemap colliders

unity-navmesh AI navigation: NavMesh bake, NavMeshAgent

unity-build-pipeline Build/player/quality settings, code stripping, Addressables

Unreal — 6 (skills/unreal/) · Unreal Engine 5.8

Skill Scope

unreal-blueprints Blueprint visual scripting: classes, graphs, comms, common nodes

unreal-cpp-gameplay C++ gameplay + Gameplay Framework (GameMode, Pawn, Controller)

unreal-enhanced-input Enhanced Input: Input Actions, Mapping Contexts, Modifiers, Triggers

unreal-behavior-trees AI Behavior Trees + Blackboard, tasks/decorators/services

unreal-niagara Niagara VFX: systems, emitters, modules, parameters

unreal-packaging Packaging/cooking projects, build configs, shipping builds

Web engines — 6 (skills/web-engines/) · Phaser 4.2 · PixiJS 8.19 · three.js r184

Skill Scope

phaser-core Phaser 4.2 game config, Scene lifecycle, loader, cameras

phaser-arcade-physics