Game Responsibility Review
Use this skill to evaluate what a game teaches, rewards, pressures, or normalizes. The goal is not to remove all friction or intensity; it is to make deliberate choices about player impact.
Source Traceability
Primary source: The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, Third Edition by Jesse Schell, especially chapters 33-35 on transformation, responsibility, and purpose. The workflow is transformed and paraphrased.
Supporting sources include accessibility guidance and community safety practice where relevant.
Workflow
- State the intended player transformation or after-effect.
- Identify pressures created by rewards, scarcity, social comparison, streaks, ads, monetization, and notifications.
- Review vulnerable player contexts: children, compulsive behavior, spending pressure, harassment, exclusion, and accessibility barriers.
- Distinguish deliberate tension from accidental harm.
- Recommend design changes, policy limits, instrumentation, and review gates.
Required Output
Purpose Statement: what the game should leave players with.Impact Map: beneficial, neutral, and risky effects.Pressure Review: retention, monetization, social, scarcity, and notification mechanics.Risk Controls: product changes, limits, disclosures, parental or accessibility options, moderation, and telemetry.Ship Gate: unresolved issues that should block release or require explicit owner approval.
Local References
Before producing a responsibility review, read:
references/core/guide.mdworkflows/responsibility-audit.md
1---2name: game-responsibility-review3description: Review a game for player impact, ethics, transformation, inclusion, monetization pressure, community risk, dark patterns, and hidden design agendas. Use before shipping manipulative loops, social systems, ads, monetization, retention mechanics, UGC, or player-generated communities.4license: MIT5---67# Game Responsibility Review89Use this skill to evaluate what a game teaches, rewards, pressures, or normalizes. The goal is not to remove all friction or intensity; it is to make deliberate choices about player impact.1011## Source Traceability1213Primary source: *The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, Third Edition* by Jesse Schell, especially chapters 33-35 on transformation, responsibility, and purpose. The workflow is transformed and paraphrased.1415Supporting sources include accessibility guidance and community safety practice where relevant.1617## Workflow18191. State the intended player transformation or after-effect.202. Identify pressures created by rewards, scarcity, social comparison, streaks, ads, monetization, and notifications.213. Review vulnerable player contexts: children, compulsive behavior, spending pressure, harassment, exclusion, and accessibility barriers.224. Distinguish deliberate tension from accidental harm.235. Recommend design changes, policy limits, instrumentation, and review gates.2425## Required Output2627- `Purpose Statement`: what the game should leave players with.28- `Impact Map`: beneficial, neutral, and risky effects.29- `Pressure Review`: retention, monetization, social, scarcity, and notification mechanics.30- `Risk Controls`: product changes, limits, disclosures, parental or accessibility options, moderation, and telemetry.31- `Ship Gate`: unresolved issues that should block release or require explicit owner approval.3233## Local References3435Before producing a responsibility review, read:3637- `references/core/guide.md`38- `workflows/responsibility-audit.md`
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