Creative Vision

Design

This skill should be used when the user asks about "creative vision", "game vision", "creative direction", "overall feel", "creative pillars", "design intent", "vision alignment", "creative drift", "game identity", "player experience", "emotional design", or discusses establishing the overall creative direction and ensuring implementation matches vision. Provides creative direction framework for holistic project coherence.

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Creative Vision

Establish and maintain creative coherence by defining core vision and ensuring all disciplines serve it.

The Vision Hierarchy

         Creative Vision (What experience do we create?)
                    │
    ┌───────────────┼───────────────┐
    ▼               ▼               ▼
Art Vision    Sound Vision    Tech Vision
    │               │               │
 [Assets]       [Audio]         [Code]

Creative Pillars

Define 3-5 non-negotiable experience principles:

PILLAR: [Short Name]
STATEMENT: [What this means for the player]
MANIFESTS AS:
- Art: [How art supports this]
- Sound: [How sound supports this]
- Code: [How mechanics support this]

Example:

PILLAR: Atmospheric Dread
STATEMENT: Players should feel isolated and vulnerable
MANIFESTS AS:
- Art: Dark palettes, obscured vision, decay
- Sound: Sparse, ambient, silence as tool
- Code: Limited resources, no map, permadeath

Experience Promise

One-paragraph core experience:

In [GAME], players experience [CORE EMOTION] through
[PRIMARY MECHANIC]. The world evokes [ATMOSPHERE] while
players [CORE VERB]. Success feels like [SUCCESS EMOTION]
and failure teaches [FAILURE LESSON].

Vision Document Sections

Experience Promise - One paragraph
Creative Pillars - 3-5 with manifestations
Emotional Journey - Start → Early → Mid → Late → End
Target Audience - Primary, Secondary, Not For
Reference Works - Games, films, art with aspects to draw
Anti-Patterns - What to explicitly avoid

Vision Alignment Check

For any work, map to pillars:

Supports - Actively reinforces
Neutral - Doesn't affect
Conflicts - Works against (drift indicator)

Ask: Does this reinforce the experience promise? Evoke intended emotions? Suit the audience?

Detecting Creative Drift

Warning signs:

Style inconsistency with established work
Emotional tone mismatch
Features that don't serve pillars
Scope changes without pillar review

Response: Acknowledge → Trace origin → Evaluate (evolution vs loss?) → Decide → Document

Director Coordination

Situation	Primary Director
New feature	Creative
Asset review	Art/Sound
Performance issue	Tech
Milestone review	Creative + All

Store vision in .studio/creative-direction.md.

References

references/pillar-design.md - Crafting effective pillars
references/emotional-design.md - Designing emotional experiences