AI Workflow for Game Designers

A hands-on field manual by a game designer with 24 years in the industry on bringing generative AI (Claude Code) into daily production work. Not theory or forecasts — it walks one task at a time from the very first screen (install, accounts, pricing) through systems design, combat, narrative, level design, balance, UX, and live ops, all the way to turning meeting notes into decisions, validation gates, cost management, and copyright.

The subtitle — "No Fabricated Numbers" — is this book's promise. Every figure and case in the text comes from real work, not invented examples, and most of the code runs as is on the Python standard library alone.

The book is open to readers outside games, too. Workflows like turning meeting notes into decisions, tracing a decision's ripple effects, and guarding quality with validation gates work regardless of your job. The "Beyond Games" box in each chapter is the bridge, and every chapter also carries a "Solo Scale-Down" for people building alone, with no team.

AI will not replace a game designer's job. What it does is free your hands from the busywork. What you do with those hands is still up to you — and this book is the practical guide to that transition.

24 parts, appendices A-N, and an epilogue. With 185 diagrams and some 290 tables, it aims to be a book that gets your hands moving today — not one you read and put down.

This is the English edition of the Korean original (BOOKK, 2026 · ISBN 979-11-12-21479-9), translated with the book's own AI workflow and reviewed by the author.