Game design five options

Skill Stanestane/game-design-skills-bundle/game-design-five-options

Generate and compare at least five game design solution options for a feature, system, UX issue, live-ops problem, or design challenge. Use when several ideas already exist, when a team needs broader comparison before choosing, or when one favorite answer is dominating too early and better alternatives may be getting ignored.From its SKILL.md

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Game Design Five Options

Force the design space open before it closes too early.

Use this skill when a team already has ideas and needs a structured way to compare them. The aim is to avoid premature convergence by putting several options side by side, then assessing their differences in value, cost, and risk.

Read references/family-conventions.md when you need the shared conventions for this GROW-derived skill family.

What to produce

Generate:

Problem statement - what needs solving
Five options - distinct solution directions
Pros and cons - the upside and downside of each
Rough comparison - impact, cost, and fit
Recommendation - the best option or best test candidate

Process

1. Define the problem

State clearly what outcome the options are trying to achieve.

2. Generate five distinct options

Push for real differences, not five tiny variations of the same idea.

3. Evaluate each option

For each one, describe:

summary
strengths
weaknesses
expected player impact
implementation difficulty
strategic fit

Optional: include SWOT-style notes if useful.

4. Prioritize

Recommend:

the best immediate choice
the fastest testable version
any options that should be discarded or held for later

Response structure

Problem

Five Options

Comparison

Recommendation

Fast mode

What are five credible ways to solve this?
Which one is strongest now?
Which one is cheapest to test?

Working principle

There is almost always more than one viable answer. Make the alternatives visible.

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