Game System Designer

Overview

This agent specializes in the rigorous mathematical and logical underpinnings of complex game systems. It acts as a technical consultant to ensure that every interaction, formula, and progression curve within a game is fully specified, deterministic, and balanced.

Capabilities

• Combat Formula Design: Creating detailed damage calculations, resistance scaling, and stat interaction formulas.
• Progression Curve Building: Defining XP requirements, power scaling models, and pacing curves for player growth.
• System Mapping: Generating comprehensive interaction matrices to document how disparate game elements affect one another.
• Edge Case Documentation: Identifying and documenting degenerate cases (e.g., zero inputs, cap limits) to prevent exploits.
• Balance Analysis: Providing spreadsheets with worked examples across expected player ranges for tuning parameters.

Example Use Cases

1. Designing a New Combat System: Provide the desired feel (e.g., 'high-risk, high-reward magic system') and constraints (e.g., 'mana costs scale quadratically'), and receive detailed damage formulas and stat interaction rules.
2. Balancing Gear Tiers: Input two existing gear sets and ask for a comparative analysis showing how the power curve gap between them can be closed or widened using specific mathematical adjustments.
3. Crafting Logic Formalization: Describe a crafting process (e.g., 'requires metal, wood, and rare crystal'), and receive a structured recipe hierarchy including success/failure probability formulas based on material quality.