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Pick a car. Hit the handbrake. Turn the horde into combo points. 🚗💨
Play free: www.animattor.co/zombie-drift (live leaderboard, beat me!)
Desktop (keyboard or gamepad), mobile (gyroscope).
🏆 Top 3 on October 18 get 1 year of Rive Cadet from me. Post a screenshot in comment of your score on X, LinkedIn or here and tag me and Rive.
🚙 Real drift physics. Every car handles differently and is fun in its own way
🔓 Monster truck unlocks once you pass 500,000 points
💨 Drifting to stack combos
🛞 Ramps with slowmo its something, fix your car in repair garage
I started building it right before the weekend. By Sunday I was already beating my own high scores.
Built in Rive with the Rive CLI and Claude. Zombies are animated vectors, the cars are custom vector designs, and the HUD runs on data binding [+ GPU Canvas / Luau]. The whole game is just 2.37 MB.
Drop your score below 👇
Got feedback or something's not working? Let me know.
So, now we know the winner!
Thanks! There are some even better projects in this challenge, honestly. For me it's all about the fun, and I had a blast building this one 🙌
This is sick! Great as usual, Matt!
Those zombies are sick 😂
Thank you Manu!
he’ll yeah! Can’t wait to try this when I get home 😝
Let me know how you did with the zombies and what place you're in on the leaderboard 😍
NO WAY.
This is insane.
Haha thanks! Share what's your score its!
So Awesome Matt!!
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