Game Feel

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The user mentions game feel
• Make it feel good/punchy
• Squash and stretch
• Feedback/polish on hits

Example prompts

• “make it feel good/punchy”
• “/game-feel”

Requirements

• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Engine-agnostic techniques; snippets in GDScript (Godot 4.x) and C# (Unity 6) with pseudocode. Pairs with godot-animation/godot-audio, unity-animation, camera-systems, and audio-design.

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Screen shake by decaying "trauma" (smooth, not a random jitter)
2. 2Hit-stop / freeze frame (sell impact by briefly stopping time)
3. 3Squash & stretch + overshoot via an eased tween (the "pop")
4. 4A feedback bundle scaled by importance (keep juice proportional)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit eac84e0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are gdscript and csharp).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

• Compatibility

  Engine-agnostic techniques; snippets in GDScript (Godot 4.x) and C# (Unity 6) with pseudocode. Pairs with godot-animation/godot-audio, unity-animation, camera-systems, and audio-design.

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Game Feel loads about 2.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.7k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 126 tokens; SKILL.md has 766 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~126

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~2.3k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~3.7k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from ukanwat/overtime at commit eac84e0, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© ukanwat). 766 words, ~2,310 tokens.

name

game-feel

description

Add "juice" and game feel that makes actions satisfying — screen shake, hit-stop/freeze frames, tweened/eased motion, squash & stretch, knockback, and layered audio-visual feedback — as engine-neutral techniques that pair with the detected engine's tween, particle, and camera APIs. Use when the user mentions game feel, juice, "make it feel good/punchy", screen shake, hit stop, screen freeze, easing, squash and stretch, impact frames, or feedback/polish on hits, jumps, pickups, and deaths.

compatibility

Engine-agnostic techniques; snippets in GDScript (Godot 4.x) and C# (Unity 6) with pseudocode. Pairs with godot-animation/godot-audio, unity-animation, camera-systems, and audio-design.

license

Apache-2.0

metadata.engine

none

metadata.category

disciplines

metadata.difficulty

intermediate

# Godot 4.x. Store trauma 0..1; shake = trauma^2 so small hits barely move, big hits punch.
# Drives a Camera2D OFFSET (the visual), never the player body. Decays every frame.
@export var decay := 1.2          # trauma lost per second
@export var max_offset := Vector2(12, 8)
@export var max_roll := 0.1       # radians
var trauma := 0.0
var _t := 0.0

func add_trauma(amount: float) -> void:
    trauma = clampf(trauma + amount, 0.0, 1.0)   # hits ADD; they don't reset

func _process(dt: float) -> void:
    if trauma <= 0.0: return
    trauma = maxf(trauma - decay * dt, 0.0)
    var shake := trauma * trauma                  # quadratic: gentle low, sharp high
    _t += dt * 30.0
    # Smooth pseudo-random via sampled noise/sin, NOT rand each frame (that buzzes).
    offset = Vector2(max_offset.x * shake * sin(_t * 1.7),
                     max_offset.y * shake * sin(_t * 2.3))
    rotation = max_roll * shake * sin(_t * 1.1)
# Unity 6: identical model on a CinemachineCamera via CinemachineBasicMultiChannelPerlin
# (set AmplitudeGain/FrequencyGain from trauma^2) — see camera-systems.

# Godot 4.x. Drop time scale, then restore after a REAL-TIME delay (unaffected by time_scale).
func hit_stop(duration := 0.08, scale := 0.05) -> void:
    Engine.time_scale = scale
    # 4th arg ignore_time_scale=true → the timer still fires while the game is frozen.
    await get_tree().create_timer(duration, true, false, true).timeout
    Engine.time_scale = 1.0

// Unity 6 (C#). WaitForSecondsRealtime ignores Time.timeScale, so the timer still elapses.
IEnumerator HitStop(float duration = 0.08f, float scale = 0.05f) {
    Time.timeScale = scale;
    yield return new WaitForSecondsRealtime(duration);
    Time.timeScale = 1f;            // RIGHT: real-time wait. WRONG: WaitForSeconds (never resumes at scale 0)
}

# Godot 4.x. Conserve volume: stretch one axis, squash the other, then spring back with overshoot.
func pop(node: Node2D) -> void:
    node.scale = Vector2(1.3, 0.7)                       # instant squash on the event
    var tw := create_tween()
    tw.tween_property(node, "scale", Vector2.ONE, 0.18) \
      .set_trans(Tween.TRANS_BACK).set_ease(Tween.EASE_OUT)   # BACK = overshoots past 1, settles
# RIGHT: ease back (TRANS_BACK/ELASTIC) for life. WRONG: linear tween → mechanical, dead.

# One call per event; the tier decides intensity so the whole game stays consistent.
func feedback(event_pos: Vector2, tier: String) -> void:
    match tier:
        "small":  AudioBus.play("tick");  Camera.add_trauma(0.15)
        "medium": AudioBus.play("hit");   Camera.add_trauma(0.4);  hit_stop(0.05); spawn_particles(event_pos, 6)
        "large":  AudioBus.play("boom");  Camera.add_trauma(0.8);  hit_stop(0.12); spawn_particles(event_pos, 30); flash_white(0.06)

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in .claude/skills/game-feel of ukanwat/overtime.

• SKILL.md
• references/feedback-recipes.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit eac84e0

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in ukanwat/overtime, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skillsskills/disciplines/game-feel