[Skill Request] Data Barrens — Async PvP RPG inside Claude Code

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Title: [Skill Request] Data Barrens — Async PvP RPG inside Claude Code

Labels: skill-request

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Skill Purpose

Data Barrens is an async multiplayer RPG that runs entirely as a Claude Code skill. Players fight real opponents, loot equipment, collect set bonuses, and climb ELO rankings — all from the terminal.

Why It Benefits the Community

• First multiplayer game skill — demonstrates Claude Code skills can go beyond dev tools
• Social/viral mechanic — one install spreads to the whole team (PvP notifications pull others in)
• Self-hostable — teams can docker compose up -d their own private server
• Multilingual — English & Chinese with /barren lang switching

Key Features

• Async PvP with equipment looting
• 5 equipment sets (Flame/Shadow/Frost/Guardian/Chaos) with 2pc/3pc bonuses
• 24 skills across 4 stat trees, auto-equipped by rating
• Smart auto-equip that evaluates all gear combos including set bonuses
• 30 equipment templates x 5 rarities = 150 variants
• 18 deterministic buddy species
• ELO matchmaking

Install

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/barren && curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hilberthiggs-hash/data-barrens/main/skill/SKILL.md -o ~/.claude/skills/barren/SKILL.md

Links

• Repo: https://github.com/hilberthiggs-hash/data-barrens
• Live server: https://barrens.hilberthiggs.com
• Self-host: docker compose up -d

Activation

Triggered by /barren command or keywords: barren, game, data barrens, rpg