game-design-bartle-archetype-audit

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stanestane/game-design-skills-bundle/game-design-bartle-archetype-audit

$npx -y skills add Stanestane/game-design-skills-bundle --skill game-design-bartle-archetype-audit

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Audit a game, feature, event, progression system, social system, live-ops loop, or onboarding flow through the lens of Bartle player archetypes: Achievers, Explorers, Socializers, and Killers. Use when evaluating who a design motivates, who it neglects, whether a feature over-ser

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SKILL.md

1	# Game Design Bartle Archetype Audit
2
3	Audit a design by asking which Bartle-type players it serves, frustrates, excludes, or accidentally overfeeds.
4
5	Use this skill to evaluate how a game or feature lands with four classic player archetype lenses:
6	- Achievers - driven by progress, status, optimization, completion, and measurable advancement
7	- Explorers - driven by discovery, experimentation, hidden depth, and systemic curiosity
8	- Socializers - driven by connection, expression, cooperation, recognition, and shared play
9	- Killers - driven by domination, disruption, competition, advantage, and impact over others
10
11	Treat these as motivational lenses, not rigid personality boxes.
12
13	## Core principle
14
15	A feature rarely serves all player archetypes equally.
16
17	That is not automatically a problem. The real question is whether the imbalance is intentional, healthy, and compatible with the broader game. A design can succeed by strongly serving one archetype, but it can also fail by unintentionally alienating others or by overfeeding one motivational pattern until it distorts the whole experience.
18
19	## What to produce
20
21	Generate:
22	1. Audit target - what is being reviewed and what it is supposed to do
23	2. Archetype-by-archetype reading - how each Bartle lens experiences the design
24	3. Motivational profile - which archetypes are strongly served, weakly served, or actively harmed
25	4. Imbalance diagnosis - where the design overcommits, neglects, or creates unhealthy tension
26	5. Recommendations - what to strengthen, soften, separate, or clarify
27
28	## Process
29
30	### 1. Define the audit target
31	Clarify:
32	- what is being audited
33	- what the feature or system is supposed to achieve
34	- what player segment it seems primarily aimed at
35	- whether it is core, optional, early-game, mid-game, endgame, or event-based
36
37	### 2. Audit for Achievers
38	Ask:
39	- Does this provide clear goals, progress, ranks, milestones, or measurable completion?
40	- Is advancement legible and satisfying?
41	- Are there optimization hooks or mastery ladders?
42	- Does the system reward effort and planning in a visible way?
43	- Does it create grind without meaningful payoff?
44
45	Look for:
46	- progression clarity
47	- completion pressure
48	- reward cadence
49	- rank/status markers
50	- optimization opportunities
51	- scoreboard or collection incentives
52
53	### 3. Audit for Explorers
54	Ask:
55	- Does this create opportunities for discovery, experimentation, hidden depth, or surprising interactions?
56	- Is there anything to uncover, test, or learn beyond the obvious path?
57	- Does the feature reward curiosity, or punish deviation from the intended route?
58	- Is the system too solved, too explicit, or too shallow to explore?
59
60	Look for:
61	- secrets or hidden layers
62	- systemic depth
63	- expressive experimentation
64	- optional discovery
65	- mystery and possibility
66	- non-obvious interactions
67
68	### 4. Audit for Socializers
69	Ask:
70	- Does this support cooperation, expression, social recognition, gifting, helping, belonging, or conversation?
71	- Are there reasons to share, show, support, or coordinate?
72	- Does it create social presence or only social metrics?
73	- Does the system feel socially alive or socially sterile?
74
75	Look for:
76	- communication value
77	- collaboration loops
78	- group identity
79	- mutual dependency
80	- recognition and expression
81	- emotionally meaningful social rituals
82
83	### 5. Audit for Killers
84	Ask:
85	- Does this allow players to dominate, disrupt, outplay, pressure, or visibly outperform others?
86	- Is there direct or indirect competition?
87	- Does the system create status through relative power?
88	- Is competitive energy healthy here, or does it poison the experience?
89	- Could killer-facing incentives distort the feature for everyone else?
90
91	Look for:
92	- PvP or rivalry energy
93	- visible advantage
94	- denial or disruption power
95	- dominance loops
96	- competitive prestige
97	- asymmetric leverage over others
98
99	### 6. Build the archetype profile
100	For each archetype, rate the design as:
101	- Strongly served
102	- Moderately served
103	- Weakly served
104	- Actively frustrated
105
106	Use this format:
107
108	\| Archetype \| Rating \| Why \| Likely Response \|
109	\|---\|---\|---\|---\|
110	\| Achievers \| ... \| ... \| ... \|
111	\| Explorers \| ... \| ... \| ... \|
112	\| Socializers \| ... \| ... \| ... \|
113	\| Killers \| ... \| ... \| ... \|
114
115	### 7. Diagnose imbalance and cross-archetype friction
116	Ask:
117	- Is the feature clearly built for one archetype while pretending to serve all?
118	- Does one archetype's reward structure damage another's experience?
119	- Is the design too narrow f

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How to install game-design-bartle-archetype-audit?

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$npx -y skills add Stanestane/game-design-skills-bundle --skill game-design-bartle-archetype-audit

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SKILL.md

1	# Game Design Bartle Archetype Audit
2
3	Audit a design by asking which Bartle-type players it serves, frustrates, excludes, or accidentally overfeeds.
4
5	Use this skill to evaluate how a game or feature lands with four classic player archetype lenses:
6	- Achievers - driven by progress, status, optimization, completion, and measurable advancement
7	- Explorers - driven by discovery, experimentation, hidden depth, and systemic curiosity
8	- Socializers - driven by connection, expression, cooperation, recognition, and shared play
9	- Killers - driven by domination, disruption, competition, advantage, and impact over others
10
11	Treat these as motivational lenses, not rigid personality boxes.
12
13	## Core principle
14
15	A feature rarely serves all player archetypes equally.
16
17	That is not automatically a problem. The real question is whether the imbalance is intentional, healthy, and compatible with the broader game. A design can succeed by strongly serving one archetype, but it can also fail by unintentionally alienating others or by overfeeding one motivational pattern until it distorts the whole experience.
18
19	## What to produce
20
21	Generate:
22	1. Audit target - what is being reviewed and what it is supposed to do
23	2. Archetype-by-archetype reading - how each Bartle lens experiences the design
24	3. Motivational profile - which archetypes are strongly served, weakly served, or actively harmed
25	4. Imbalance diagnosis - where the design overcommits, neglects, or creates unhealthy tension
26	5. Recommendations - what to strengthen, soften, separate, or clarify
27
28	## Process
29
30	### 1. Define the audit target
31	Clarify:
32	- what is being audited
33	- what the feature or system is supposed to achieve
34	- what player segment it seems primarily aimed at
35	- whether it is core, optional, early-game, mid-game, endgame, or event-based
36
37	### 2. Audit for Achievers
38	Ask:
39	- Does this provide clear goals, progress, ranks, milestones, or measurable completion?
40	- Is advancement legible and satisfying?
41	- Are there optimization hooks or mastery ladders?
42	- Does the system reward effort and planning in a visible way?
43	- Does it create grind without meaningful payoff?
44
45	Look for:
46	- progression clarity
47	- completion pressure
48	- reward cadence
49	- rank/status markers
50	- optimization opportunities
51	- scoreboard or collection incentives
52
53	### 3. Audit for Explorers
54	Ask:
55	- Does this create opportunities for discovery, experimentation, hidden depth, or surprising interactions?
56	- Is there anything to uncover, test, or learn beyond the obvious path?
57	- Does the feature reward curiosity, or punish deviation from the intended route?
58	- Is the system too solved, too explicit, or too shallow to explore?
59
60	Look for:
61	- secrets or hidden layers
62	- systemic depth
63	- expressive experimentation
64	- optional discovery
65	- mystery and possibility
66	- non-obvious interactions
67
68	### 4. Audit for Socializers
69	Ask:
70	- Does this support cooperation, expression, social recognition, gifting, helping, belonging, or conversation?
71	- Are there reasons to share, show, support, or coordinate?
72	- Does it create social presence or only social metrics?
73	- Does the system feel socially alive or socially sterile?
74
75	Look for:
76	- communication value
77	- collaboration loops
78	- group identity
79	- mutual dependency
80	- recognition and expression
81	- emotionally meaningful social rituals
82
83	### 5. Audit for Killers
84	Ask:
85	- Does this allow players to dominate, disrupt, outplay, pressure, or visibly outperform others?
86	- Is there direct or indirect competition?
87	- Does the system create status through relative power?
88	- Is competitive energy healthy here, or does it poison the experience?
89	- Could killer-facing incentives distort the feature for everyone else?
90
91	Look for:
92	- PvP or rivalry energy
93	- visible advantage
94	- denial or disruption power
95	- dominance loops
96	- competitive prestige
97	- asymmetric leverage over others
98
99	### 6. Build the archetype profile
100	For each archetype, rate the design as:
101	- Strongly served
102	- Moderately served
103	- Weakly served
104	- Actively frustrated
105
106	Use this format:
107
108	\| Archetype \| Rating \| Why \| Likely Response \|
109	\|---\|---\|---\|---\|
110	\| Achievers \| ... \| ... \| ... \|
111	\| Explorers \| ... \| ... \| ... \|
112	\| Socializers \| ... \| ... \| ... \|
113	\| Killers \| ... \| ... \| ... \|
114
115	### 7. Diagnose imbalance and cross-archetype friction
116	Ask:
117	- Is the feature clearly built for one archetype while pretending to serve all?
118	- Does one archetype's reward structure damage another's experience?
119	- Is the design too narrow f

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