Developer tools inside the game

Tuning and debugging a game is fastest while it runs: change a number, see the result, keep it. This skill adds those tools to the game itself. They are for the game's developer, to test and tune it while building it. Players never get them: everything here is removed from the game before it is published. It is guidance: build the tools into the game's own project, with a small panel library or the game's own UI.

Because the tools never reach a player, they can do anything that helps testing, including cheats in online matches. The one hard rule is that the published game contains none of them.

Ask the developer first

Read the project before asking: the bundler, the engine, the config file the game reads its numbers from (if any), a panel library it already uses, and the keys the game already binds. Then ask in one round, with a recommendation for each: