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I am very proud to announce my Submission: Gargantua!
In which you play as a black hole and try to eat everything on your path.
Making this thing from scratch this week was a total blast. Rive has me hooked!
You can play the game for free on itch, although the windows version has better performances.
https://henri-lamarre.itch.io/gargantua
I also used this as an opportunity to create a Unity x Rive tutorial since there arent that many of those on Youtube right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNHbHDbcHI4&t=11s
Big shout out to everyone who submitted a game! Good job everyone!
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Unmasked,
An imposter-themed party game that tests trust between friends. Unmasked uses the smartphone as a central part of the game, with no downloads required: just scan, log in, and start to be suspicious.
Local winner of the Global Game Jam 2026 and made from idea to playable multiplayer game under a 48 hrs window.
The game was built using Unity, Rive and the backend was made in Node.js with Socket.io Leveraging heavily on Rive and its useful tools like data-binding, state machines and scripting, for a rich animation experience in which the user can see they avatars changing in real time.
Still not done with the game, currently working on using Rive for all of the UI, plan to release it publicly once it’s all done.
Hope You all like my entry for the Games with Rive Challenge.
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Dave
My entry for the Games with Rive challenge, finally! I was super happy to put my game dev skills to use.
⚔️ Battle Stride — a card-based dungeon crawler where you lay down path cards to guide a soldier through procedurally generated dungeons, battle enemies, and collect relics.
I used Rive's state machines to drive all the character and card animations, data binding to keep the HUD in sync with game state, and listeners for interactive hover and click effects on the cards.
All the art—characters, cards, tiles, and relics—was hand-drawn and animated in Rive's editor using vector shapes, then exported as lightweight files for the web.
Audio events in the state machine handle combat and pickup sounds. The whole thing runs in the browser with lightweight vector exports.
🕹️ Play it here: https://battle-stride.netlify.app/
My game submission is a colorful perception quiz game utilizing scripting and the AI agent.
Some highlights of the project:
• Game logic that adapts to difficulty and color ranges, while also balancing types of questions across the total rounds. All scalable.
• Particle system is reactive UI changes with built in presets to adjust the visuals on the fly.
• The game brain script only edits the view model with what the game logic feeds it, and the game flow progresses only through control in the state machine. This allows for clear separation to track bugs.
I learned a lot about scripting, state machines, and building working gameplay. Enjoy!
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This is impressive. The clear separation between game logic, view model, and state machine shows solid architecture thinking not just gameplay experimentation. Well done 👏
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