# Narrative Design

> Build narrative structure, world logic, dialogue intent, and player motivation that support the game loop.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-mrcalderon3d-everything-game-dev-code-narrative-design`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [MRCalderon3D](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/mrcalderon3d)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [MRCalderon3D](https://github.com/MRCalderon3D)
- **Source:** https://github.com/MRCalderon3D/everything-game-dev-code/tree/main/skills/design/narrative-design

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-mrcalderon3d-everything-game-dev-code-narrative-design
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Narrative Design

## Purpose
Build narrative structure, world logic, dialogue intent, and player motivation that support the game loop.

## Use When
- story, dialogue, lore, or character arcs need structure
- narrative and gameplay feel disconnected
- content growth is making canon hard to manage

## Inputs
- game pillars
- quest or mission structure
- world rules
- localization constraints

## Process
1. define narrative goals, arcs, and world rules
2. link story beats to gameplay and objective flow
3. write or outline dialogue with implementation constraints in mind
4. create a canon reference and naming consistency rules
5. plan subtitle, VO, and localization implications early

## Outputs
- narrative brief
- canon notes
- dialogue or quest specs
- localization and VO considerations

## Quality Bar
- supports the core fantasy and player goals
- defines readable rules, edge cases, and feedback
- creates concrete hooks for tuning, telemetry, and QA

## Common Failure Modes
- adding systems that do not serve the core loop
- shipping vague rules that QA and engineering must guess at
- tuning without instrumentation or hypotheses

## Related Agents
- narrative-designer
- gdd-designer
- audio-designer

## Related Commands
- gdd
- quest-design
- update-docs

## Notes
- Keep this skill aligned with the relevant rules layer and current project documentation.
- If engine-specific constraints materially change the workflow, hand off to the matching engine skill or engine-specific reviewer.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [MRCalderon3D](https://github.com/MRCalderon3D)
- **Source:** [MRCalderon3D/everything-game-dev-code](https://github.com/MRCalderon3D/everything-game-dev-code)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-mrcalderon3d-everything-game-dev-code-narrative-design
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/mrcalderon3d
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

---
Listed on AgentStack — the marketplace for AI agent skills and MCP servers. Every listing is security-reviewed. Creators keep 70%.