Procedural generation
Skill rondorkerin/gamestack/plugins/gamestack/skills/procedural-generation
The game-design process for Claude — knowledge + workflow skills for designing games, tuned for headless, procedural, AI-authored development (engine-agnostic; Godot).
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One thing to look at
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What its author says it does
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Use when designing or building a content generator — terrain, dungeons, quests, items, lore, history — or diagnosing generated content that feels samey, generic, or soulless. Covers the "10,000 bowls of oatmeal" problem, perceptual vs. mathematical uniqueness, the handcrafted-anchor + constrained-fill hybrid, voice-consistent corpora, multiplicative systems, and tying generation to meaning. Core skill for headless / AI-authored games. Triggers on "procedural generation", "procgen", "generator", "my generated content is samey", "infinite content", "world generation", "AI-authored content".
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Procedural Generation
How to make generators whose output is perceptually rich, not just mathematically infinite — the central skill for a headless, AI-authored game.
When to use this
- Designing any generator (terrain, dungeons, quests, items, NPCs, lore, history)
- Diagnosing generated content that reads as samey / generic / soulless
- Deciding the handcrafted-vs-procedural ratio
- Setting up an AI authoring engine that needs one coherent voice
Scope
This is the how to generate knowledge skill. Its companion is procgen-review — the process skill that gates generated output against these principles (oatmeal test, fanfic test, sameness scan). Generate with this; review with that.
Related: open-world-design (generating space), worldbuilding-and-lore + ai-authored-content-coherence (generating lore coherently), systemic-emergent-design (multiplicative systems).
How the pieces fit
GUIDE.md— the why: the oatmeal problem, perceptual uniqueness, the hybrid model, corpus voice, intentionality/local logic, multiplicative systems, curated randomness, apophenia. Cited.CHECKLIST.md— the what to do: Do/Don't + test-for criteria.
The one idea to anchor on
Perceptual uniqueness is the only metric that matters. You can generate 10,000 mathematically-unique bowls of oatmeal; the player still just sees oatmeal (Kate Compton). Intentionality — constraints, handcrafted anchors, local meaning, and a single voice — is what separates great procedural content from infinite filler.
Start with GUIDE.md; gate everything you generate with procgen-review.