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When: March 4th at 11:00am EST
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: Hey folks Here is my submission for the "Game with Rive" challenge. I had created this simple puzzle game as an assignment to dive deeper in Rive. Data binding and Scripting were not supported when I started making this game. So I had to use too many timelines, inputs and listeners for animating tiles.
But after the introduction of Data binding and Scripting, rive has become so much more easier and powerful. I rebuilt the same puzzle game using these new features. It took a lot less time to build the game with Data binding and Scripting
Hello everyone,
Smash Chess is back — my approach to the #GamesWithRive challenge.
What's scripted:
- Full chess rules engine (legal moves, check/checkmate, castling, en passant, pawn promotion)
- Board, pieces, highlights — all drawn via Node scripts
- Breathing aura with contour-following particles on selected pieces
- Knockout effect on captures — pieces launch off-screen with spin, speed lines, and impact flash
- 7 flower gift drops: Vortex, Promotion, Demotion, Shield, Freeze, Teleport, Clone — the King stays unbothered
- KO victory via health bars — lose it all, you're out
- A pruned AI doing its best to keep up with our augmented rules
- SFX via script-fired triggers wired to audio timelines
Pure script chaos available here : Smash Chess
Punch 1.0.1 🤖
Rive is my favourite 2D engine. So naturally, I built a 3D fighting game in it.
Punch is a 1 vs 1 robot combat game where every mesh, every polygon, every depth-sorted face is computed in real-time through Luau scripting. No external 3D library nor API.
The gameplay is simple and brutal: throw a punch, parry if you can, hope for the best. Two robots, one arena, zero polygons wasted on diplomacy.
Luau handles perspective projection, mesh rendering, depth-sorting, face culling, and real-time animation, all running within the Rive state machine. The robot models are pushed from Blender to Rive. Every frame, the script redraws the scene. It runs in my browser today, my phone asap.
A fighting game felt like the right kind of absurd.
Play it here: https://pencil-park.com/piot
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