# Brainstorm

Guides the user through finding and choosing a game concept.

- Repository: https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios (32144 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-19
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill brainstorm -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill brainstorm -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill brainstorm -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill brainstorm -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Guides the user through finding and choosing a game concept. Use when the user wants game ideas, a new concept, a game jam idea, or to explore other directions, including dropping the current idea and starting over.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

!`bash "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../hooks/yaml-helper.sh" resolve_config --keys review_mode,automation,docs.density,workflow`

Resolved above; use as-is. No block → the defaults in `.claude/docs/config-resolution.md`
(`workflow: minimal`, `review_mode: solo`, `automation: collaborative`, `docs.density: terse`), and
say that the settings were not read.

# Brainstorm

Turns no idea, or a rough one, into a written design the next step builds from. How much it writes
depends on `workflow`:

- **`minimal`:** the Lean Brief flow below: a one-page `design/game-brief.md`, then stop. No
  discovery questions, pillars, director gates or `game-concept.md`, and do not load
  `references/full-concept.md`.
- **`standard` or `full`:** read `references/full-concept.md` and follow it. It writes
  `design/gdd/game-concept.md` from `.claude/docs/templates/game-concept.md`. Its gates follow
  `.claude/docs/director-gates.md`; each director agent is given its own gate file,
  `.claude/docs/director-gates/<gate-id in lower case>.md` (`cd-pillars.md`,
  `ad-concept-visual.md`, `td-feasibility.md`, `pr-scope.md`), and you do not read those files
  yourself.

`--review` in the text typed after the skill name overrides `review_mode` for this run.
`docs.density` sets each section's depth: `terse` = bullets; `balanced` = with brief rationale;
`thorough` = rationale and alternatives. Questions follow `.claude/docs/automation-modes.md`
(collaborative asks, guided asks only for major decisions, autonomous logs and proceeds; the
always-ask categories always ask).

Ask with the question tool. Without one, list the options numbered and end your turn to wait. The
question is the last thing in the reply: no advice or lean after it. A skipped or dismissed
question is not an answer: ask again in plain text.

## Lean Brief flow (`workflow: minimal`)

The rest: https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios/blob/HEAD/.claude/skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md