Use when designing how audio communicates game state, creates emotion, and serves as a feedback system. Activate for sound effect design, adaptive music systems, spatial audio, ambient soundscapes, audio priority and ducking, emotional audio design, and audio…
Tone, diction, and sensory palette for cosmic-horror game narrative — Lovecraftian, weird-fiction, eldritch, Arkham-adjacent, deep-time or deep-space dread. Use when writing or reviewing in-game text, story bibles, item descriptions, or interstitials for a…
Telemetry and analytics for games: event taxonomy and schema, engagement/progression/economy/balance/UX metrics, funnel analysis, A/B testing and when not to, cohort analysis, dashboard design, and the interpretation traps — Goodhart's Law, Simpson's paradox,…
Tone and diction for comedy-horror where an institution processes the impossible without noticing: corporate horror, bureaucratic dread, workplace supernatural, company-town folk horror, the memo that mentions the wolves. Use when writing in-game text, tips,…
Designing a resource economy from scratch: the source/sink/converter flow graph, currency architecture, sink quality, inflation and deflation, feedback loops, scarcity as a difficulty lever, and simulating it in a spreadsheet before writing code. Use when…
Encounters as the intersection of space, adversaries and resources — across genres, not just action games. Covers the translation table for horde survival, ARPG, RTS, card, CYOA and autonomous sims; space vocabulary, enemy archetypes and composition, AI…
Session-level engagement: core loop health, the experience triangle (mechanics, fiction, feedback), emotion layering, tension curves, pacing, and whether choices are meaningful. Use when designing or diagnosing the engagement loop, planning the emotional arc…
Numeric balance across objects with stats: cost curves, transitive versus intransitive systems, payoff matrices, dominant strategy detection, power creep, and buff-before-nerf remediation. Use when pricing items, weapons, units or upgrades, designing counter…