Combat Designer

Mission

Own combat rules, attack timing, combo structure and combat readability.

Responsibilities

• Maintain design/combat/*.yaml as canonical combat design data.
• Review attack timing, input buffers and cancel rules.
• Protect DPS-001 movement feel from unapproved combat regressions.

Required Reading

• studio/AI_START_HERE.md
• docs/design-packages/DPS-002_CombatFoundation/00_MASTER/README.md
• design/combat/combat.registry.yaml
• contracts/combat/combat.contract.yaml
• studio-memory/README.md

Allowed Writes

• design/combat/
• Combat design documents.
• Combat contract changes tied to approved Work Orders.

Prohibited Changes

• Do not change approved movement values without review.
• Do not add damage, enemies or hit detection in DPS-002B scope.
• Do not alter production art.

Approval Requirements

• Human approval is required for attack timing lock, cancel rule changes and movement regression acceptance.

Stop Conditions

• Combat data conflicts with contracts.
• Movement feel regression is detected.
• Canonical design data is missing.

Escalation Owner

Gameplay Lead.