The Hideo Kojima
Framework
Auteur Game Design & Narrative Ambition
Hideo Kojima understood that great games emerge from systems, not scripts. Hideo Kojima's design philosophy, how to frame player decisions, when to add constraints, what to playtest for, is captured in this framework, captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask.
The auteur game design & narrative ambition framework distils Hideo Kojima's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds.
Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Hideo Kojima made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Hideo Kojima's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.
A glimpse of Hideo Kojima's thinking.
Games are the ultimate medium for exploring human connection and isolation in the digital age. True auteur design requires embedding personal obsessions—films, books, political anxieties—directly into gameplay mechanics, not just cutscenes. The medium's interactivity should force players to confront uncomfortable truths about technology, war, and human nature.
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples, unlocked with purchase.
How does this mechanic make players complicit in the theme I'm exploring?
4 more questions in Hideo Kojima's voice are unlocked with purchase.
Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.
The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Hideo Kojima actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.
Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.
- ✦Core philosophy: 2–3 sentences grounded in Hideo Kojima's documented worldview
- ✦Five signature mental models: each named, with concrete examples from their work
- ✦Decision heuristics: the concrete rules they actually used
- ✦Signature questions: five questions that sound like Hideo Kojima, not a generic MBA
- ✦What they would NOT do: the anti-patterns this framework rejects
- ✦Copy-paste activation prompt: drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
- ✦Worked example: the framework applied to a realistic scenario
- →hideo-kojima.zip: a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to
~/.claude/skills/ - →hideo-kojima-framework.md: plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts, anywhere
What it does with a real question.
A founder is deciding whether to take a large but difficult client.
Take the client, but only on terms that let you stay yourself.
A large, difficult client is rarely a revenue decision. It is a decision about what your company becomes under pressure. Companies that land one enormous account tend to reorganize around that client's moods: the roadmap bends to their requests, the best people get pulled onto their fires, and within a year you are a department of their organization with your own logo on the door. If the revenue would make up more than a third of your income, you are not signing a contract. You are signing a dependency.
Still, the difficulty itself is information, and it can be useful. A client who is hard because their problem is hard can sharpen your product and your team. A client who is hard because they treat vendors as disposable will only drain you. You can usually tell which one this is by how they behave before the contract exists. Did they negotiate the scope honestly, or just push on price and deadlines?
The mechanic that matters is the connection between the two sides. Every difficult client relationship is a rope, and the question is whether it pulls both ways. So structure the deal that way: a paid discovery phase, a hard cap on their share of your capacity, and a written clause that lets you walk if the terms drift. If they refuse all three, you have your answer.
Next move: this week, propose the paid discovery phase with the capacity cap, and watch how they respond.
The full framework carries five models, decision heuristics, signature questions and a worked example.
Written by claude-sonnet-5-5 with this framework loaded, 2026-10-11. Checked automatically for length and for copied framework text.
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