Claude Code Game Studios

Turn a single Claude Code session into a full game development studio.
49 agents. 73 skills. One coordinated AI team.

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Why This Exists

Building a game solo with AI is powerful — but a single chat session has no structure. No one stops you from hardcoding magic numbers, skipping design docs, or writing spaghetti code. There's no QA pass, no design review, no one asking "does this actually fit the game's vision?"

Claude Code Game Studios solves this by giving your AI session the structure of a real studio. Instead of one general-purpose assistant, you get 49 specialized agents organized into a studio hierarchy — directors who guard the vision, department leads who own their domains, and specialists who do the hands-on work. Each agent has defined responsibilities, escalation paths, and quality gates.

The result: you still make every decision, but now you have a team that asks the right questions, catches mistakes early, and keeps your project organized from first brainstorm to launch.

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Table of Contents

• What's Included
• Studio Hierarchy
• Slash Commands
• Getting Started
• Upgrading
• Project Structure
• How It Works
• Design Philosophy
• Customization
• Platform Support
• Community
• Supporting This Project
• License

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What's Included

Category	Count	Description
Agents	49	Specialized subagents across design, programming, art, audio, narrative, QA, and production
Skills	73	Slash commands for every workflow phase (/start, /design-system, /create-epics, /create-stories, /dev-story, /story-done, etc.)
Hooks	12	Automated validation on commits, pushes, asset changes, session lifecycle, agent audit trail, and gap detection
Rules	11	Path-scoped coding standards enforced when editing gameplay, engine, AI, UI, network code, and more
Templates	41	Document templates for GDDs, UX specs, ADRs, sprint plans, HUD design, accessibility, and more

Studio Hierarchy

Agents are organized into three tiers, matching how real studios operate:

Tier 1 — Directors (Opus)
  creative-director    technical-director    producer

Tier 2 — Department Leads (Sonnet)
  game-designer        lead-programmer       art-director
  audio-director       narrative-director    qa-lead
  release-manager      localization-lead

Tier 3 — Specialists (Sonnet/Haiku)
  gameplay-programmer  engine-programmer     ai-programmer
  network-programmer   tools-programmer      ui-programmer
  systems-designer     level-designer        economy-designer
  technical-artist     sound-designer        writer
  world-builder        ux-designer           prototyper
  performance-analyst  devops-engineer       analytics-engineer
  security-engineer    qa-tester             accessibility-specialist
  live-ops-designer    community-manager

Engine Specialists

The template includes agent sets for all three major engines. Use the set that matches your project:

Engine	Lead Agent	Sub-Specialists
Godot 4	godot-specialist	GDScript, Shaders, GDExtension
Unity	unity-specialist	DOTS/ECS, Shaders/VFX, Addressables, UI Toolkit
Unreal Engine 5	unreal-specialist	GAS, Blueprints, Replication, UMG/CommonUI

Slash Commands

Type / in Claude Code to access all 73 skills:

Onboarding & Navigation /start /help /project-stage-detect /setup-engine /adopt

Game Design /brainstorm /map-systems /design-system /quick-design /review-all-gdds /propagate-design-change

Art & Assets /art-bible /asset-spec /asset-audit

UX & Interface Design /ux-design /ux-review

Architecture /create-architecture /architecture-decision /architecture-review /create-control-manifest

Stories & Sprints /create-epics /create-stories /dev-story /sprint-plan /sprint-status /story-readiness /story-done /estimate

Reviews & Analysis /design-review /code-review /balance-check /content-audit /scope-check /perf-profile /tech-debt /gate-check /consistency-check /security-audit

QA & Testing /qa-plan /smoke-check /soak-test /regression-suite /test-setup /test-helpers /test-evidence-review /test-flakiness /skill-test /skill-improve

Production /milestone-review /retrospective /bug-report /bug-triage /reverse-document /playtest-report

Release /release-checklist /launch-checklist /changelog /patch-notes /hotfix /day-one-patch

Creative & Content /prototype /onboard /localize

Team Orchestration (coordinate multiple agents on a single feature) /team-combat /team-narrative /team-ui /team-release /team-polish /team-audio /team-level /team-live-ops /team-qa

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Git
• Claude Code (npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code)
• Recommended: jq (for hook validation) and Python 3 (for JSON validation)

All hooks fail gracefully if optional tools are missing — nothing breaks, you just lose validation.

Setup

1. Clone or use as template:

   git clone https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios.git my-game
   cd my-game
   

2. Open Claude Code and start a session:

   claude
   

3. Run /start — the system asks where you are (no idea, vague concept, clear design, existing work) and guides you to the right workflow. No assumptions.

   Or jump directly to a specific skill if you already know what you need:

   • /brainstorm — explore game ideas from scratch
   • /setup-engine godot 4.6 — configure your engine if you already know
   • /project-stage-detect — analyze an existing project

Upgrading

Already using an older version of this template? See UPGRADING.md for step-by-step migration instructions, a breakdown of what changed between versions, and which files are safe to overwrite vs. which need a manual merge.

Project Structure

CLAUDE.md                           # Master configuration
.claude/
  settings.json                     # Hooks, permissions, safety rules
  agents/                           # 49 agent definitions (markdown + YAML frontmatter)
  skills/                           # 73 slash commands (subdirectory per skill