GameGene

What you can ask

• “I’m designing a roguelike. What precedents are there for making losses feel fair, and what did the designers intend?”
• “Where did showing the enemy’s next move come from, and why did designers adopt it?”
• “What design precedents bring players back every day? Include sources.”
• “Where did Dark Souls’ mechanic of going back for the souls you dropped on death come from?”
• “From the games most read on GameGene, list classics I don’t know yet.”

Answers come with links to GameGene pages as sources. The AI is told to say plainly when GameGene has no record of something.

How to connect

All you need is a GameGene account (free). The connection URL is https://gamegene.app/api/mcp.

Claude

Go to Settings → Connectors → “Add custom connector”, enter https://gamegene.app/api/mcp as the URL and add it. Press “Connect”, sign in to GameGene on the page that opens, and press “Allow”.

ChatGPT

Turn on developer mode in Settings, then create a connector (app) with the same URL. As with Claude, sign in to GameGene and allow access.

Once you allow it, the AI app can read GameGene's records. Your own records, such as your known / want-to-know marks and notebooks, are returned only to the AI app you connected, and only your own.

Tools

The AI picks and calls these tools on its own to answer your question. All of them only read.

gamegene_search

Search games, Genes, creators, design moves, trivia and heuristics by a word (title, alias, name or part of the text)

gamegene_game

Everything about one game (design moves, lineage, trivia, where to play it, and more)

gamegene_games

The full list of games

gamegene_claims

The text and evidence of design moves (claims)

gamegene_genes

The full list of Genes (families of mechanics)

gamegene_joseki

Heuristics (design judgments that recur across games), with where they came from and the games that show them

gamegene_person

Everything about one creator (games they worked on and what they said)

gamegene_notebooks

The list of public notebooks

gamegene_notebook

One public notebook

gamegene_popular

What readers read most, ranked by reader counts (without who read it)

gamegene_requests

Readers’ research requests

gamegene_me

Your own records (known / want-to-know marks, favorites, viewing history, requests and notebooks), only your own

gamegene_ping

Check that the connection works

Daily limits

Free

300 calls a day (about 20 questions) and 20 a minute

Supporter

1000 calls a day (about 60 questions) and 30 a minute

The AI may call tools around 15 times for a single question. When you hit a limit, GameGene tells the AI when it resets. The daily limit resets at midnight Japan time.

How data is handled

• AI apps only read GameGene; they cannot change any records.
• For limits, troubleshooting and improving the Service, we log the tool name, arguments, account, connected AI app, time and similar details of each call, and delete them after 180 days. We do not log the content we return.
• Your questions and conversations with the AI app never reach GameGene; only the arguments of the tools the AI calls do.

See the privacy policy for details.