game-design-player-persona-extractor

Name: game-design-player-persona-extractor
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How to install game-design-player-persona-extractor?

stanestane/game-design-skills-bundle/game-design-player-persona-extractor

$npx -y skills add Stanestane/game-design-skills-bundle --skill game-design-player-persona-extractor

Installs into the current project.

Summary

Extract the ideal player persona and anti-persona for a game, feature, loop, or progression structure based on the design itself. Use when a team can describe mechanics but cannot clearly articulate who the design is truly for, which player motivations and tolerances it suits, wh

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SKILL.md

1	# Game Design Player Persona Extractor
2
3	Extract who a design is actually built for.
4
5	Use this skill when a team can describe systems, loops, and mechanics, but not the kind of player who will love them, tolerate them, or bounce off them. The job is not to invent a fake marketing avatar. The job is to infer the player profile implied by the design.
6
7	Focus on behavior, motivation, tolerance, learning style, and emotional appetite. Avoid demographic fluff unless the user explicitly asks for it.
8
9	Read `references/family-conventions.md` when you want the shared style, prioritization, and diagnosis rules for this game-design skill family.
10	Read `references/output-patterns.md` when you want the preferred recommendation and minimal-fix structure.
11	Read `references/demographic-research-notes.md` when the user explicitly wants demographic support, market validation, or publisher-facing audience framing.
12
13	## Core principle
14
15	A game becomes sharper when it serves a specific kind of player extremely well instead of vaguely trying to work for everyone.
16
17	A useful persona does three things:
18	- identifies who the design delights
19	- identifies who the design frustrates or excludes
20	- implies concrete design choices
21
22	If the resulting persona could fit almost any game, it is too weak to matter.
23
24	## What to produce
25
26	Generate:
27	1. Ideal player persona - the player this design best serves
28	2. Anti-persona - the player most likely to reject or churn from it
29	3. Behavior profile - how the player approaches play, learning, and decisions
30	4. Emotional profile - what they want to feel and what breaks the deal
31	5. Design implications - what the design must emphasize, protect, and avoid for this audience
32	6. Optional demographic layer - only when explicitly requested, add likely demographic or market-fit hypotheses that support the behavior-first persona rather than replacing it
33	7. Optional market audience summary - when requested for pitch, publishing, or strategy use, convert the persona into a concise audience-facing summary with demographic overlap, comparable-title signals, and confidence notes
34
35	## Process
36
37	### 1. Define the extraction target
38	Clarify:
39	- what exact game, feature, or loop is being analyzed
40	- whether the persona is for the whole product or only one experience slice
41	- what known constraints already shape audience fit
42
43	Write:
44	- Extraction target
45	- Scope
46	- Known constraints
47
48	### 2. Read the design for behavioral signals
49	Look at features such as:
50	- difficulty level
51	- randomness level
52	- pacing and session length
53	- agency level
54	- punishment severity
55	- progression structure
56	- strategic depth
57	- repetition tolerance
58	- required patience, experimentation, or precision
59
60	Ask:
61	- What kind of player will enjoy making these decisions repeatedly?
62	- What kind of frustration is this design asking the player to tolerate?
63	- Does it reward mastery, experimentation, social play, expression, optimization, calm routine, or high tension?
64
65	### 3. Infer the core motivation profile
66	Common motivation buckets include:
67	- mastery and skill growth
68	- experimentation and discovery
69	- optimization and efficiency
70	- competition and status
71	- expression and creativity
72	- narrative curiosity
73	- collection and completion
74	- comfort, ritual, and low-pressure progress
75
76	State which motivations the design strongly serves and which it serves poorly.
77
78	### 4. Infer the tolerance profile
79	Judge what the implied player can comfortably tolerate in terms of:
80	- difficulty
81	- repetition
82	- randomness
83	- ambiguity
84	- failure frequency
85	- delayed rewards
86	- long sessions or short bursts
87	- social friction
88	- optimization pressure
89
90	This often reveals the anti-persona more clearly than the positive persona does.
91
92	### 5. Describe the play style and learning style
93	Clarify how the ideal player tends to behave:
94	- cautious or impulsive
95	- planner or improviser
96	- systems learner or fantasy chaser
97	- repetition-based learner or novelty seeker
98	- optimizer or role-player
99	- solo-focused or socially motivated
100
101	Write this as behavior, not vague adjectives.
102
103	### 6. Define emotional expectations
104	Ask:
105	- What does this player want to feel regularly?
106	- What kind of tension is enjoyable to them?
107	- What kind of frustration will they accept?
108	- What kind of frustration will feel like betrayal?
109
110	### 7. Define the anti-persona
111	State clearly who this is not for and why.
112
113	Avoid generic anti-personas like "people who do

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How to install game-design-player-persona-extractor?

stanestane/game-design-skills-bundle/game-design-player-persona-extractor

$npx -y skills add Stanestane/game-design-skills-bundle --skill game-design-player-persona-extractor

Installs into the current project.

Summary

Files · 1

View on GitHub

SKILL.md

1	# Game Design Player Persona Extractor
2
3	Extract who a design is actually built for.
4
5	Use this skill when a team can describe systems, loops, and mechanics, but not the kind of player who will love them, tolerate them, or bounce off them. The job is not to invent a fake marketing avatar. The job is to infer the player profile implied by the design.
6
7	Focus on behavior, motivation, tolerance, learning style, and emotional appetite. Avoid demographic fluff unless the user explicitly asks for it.
8
9	Read `references/family-conventions.md` when you want the shared style, prioritization, and diagnosis rules for this game-design skill family.
10	Read `references/output-patterns.md` when you want the preferred recommendation and minimal-fix structure.
11	Read `references/demographic-research-notes.md` when the user explicitly wants demographic support, market validation, or publisher-facing audience framing.
12
13	## Core principle
14
15	A game becomes sharper when it serves a specific kind of player extremely well instead of vaguely trying to work for everyone.
16
17	A useful persona does three things:
18	- identifies who the design delights
19	- identifies who the design frustrates or excludes
20	- implies concrete design choices
21
22	If the resulting persona could fit almost any game, it is too weak to matter.
23
24	## What to produce
25
26	Generate:
27	1. Ideal player persona - the player this design best serves
28	2. Anti-persona - the player most likely to reject or churn from it
29	3. Behavior profile - how the player approaches play, learning, and decisions
30	4. Emotional profile - what they want to feel and what breaks the deal
31	5. Design implications - what the design must emphasize, protect, and avoid for this audience
32	6. Optional demographic layer - only when explicitly requested, add likely demographic or market-fit hypotheses that support the behavior-first persona rather than replacing it
33	7. Optional market audience summary - when requested for pitch, publishing, or strategy use, convert the persona into a concise audience-facing summary with demographic overlap, comparable-title signals, and confidence notes
34
35	## Process
36
37	### 1. Define the extraction target
38	Clarify:
39	- what exact game, feature, or loop is being analyzed
40	- whether the persona is for the whole product or only one experience slice
41	- what known constraints already shape audience fit
42
43	Write:
44	- Extraction target
45	- Scope
46	- Known constraints
47
48	### 2. Read the design for behavioral signals
49	Look at features such as:
50	- difficulty level
51	- randomness level
52	- pacing and session length
53	- agency level
54	- punishment severity
55	- progression structure
56	- strategic depth
57	- repetition tolerance
58	- required patience, experimentation, or precision
59
60	Ask:
61	- What kind of player will enjoy making these decisions repeatedly?
62	- What kind of frustration is this design asking the player to tolerate?
63	- Does it reward mastery, experimentation, social play, expression, optimization, calm routine, or high tension?
64
65	### 3. Infer the core motivation profile
66	Common motivation buckets include:
67	- mastery and skill growth
68	- experimentation and discovery
69	- optimization and efficiency
70	- competition and status
71	- expression and creativity
72	- narrative curiosity
73	- collection and completion
74	- comfort, ritual, and low-pressure progress
75
76	State which motivations the design strongly serves and which it serves poorly.
77
78	### 4. Infer the tolerance profile
79	Judge what the implied player can comfortably tolerate in terms of:
80	- difficulty
81	- repetition
82	- randomness
83	- ambiguity
84	- failure frequency
85	- delayed rewards
86	- long sessions or short bursts
87	- social friction
88	- optimization pressure
89
90	This often reveals the anti-persona more clearly than the positive persona does.
91
92	### 5. Describe the play style and learning style
93	Clarify how the ideal player tends to behave:
94	- cautious or impulsive
95	- planner or improviser
96	- systems learner or fantasy chaser
97	- repetition-based learner or novelty seeker
98	- optimizer or role-player
99	- solo-focused or socially motivated
100
101	Write this as behavior, not vague adjectives.
102
103	### 6. Define emotional expectations
104	Ask:
105	- What does this player want to feel regularly?
106	- What kind of tension is enjoyable to them?
107	- What kind of frustration will they accept?
108	- What kind of frustration will feel like betrayal?
109
110	### 7. Define the anti-persona
111	State clearly who this is not for and why.
112
113	Avoid generic anti-personas like "people who do

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