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BÂTIMENT C 🏚️🔦 A first-person horror game in an abandoned tower block.
You're the night guard. On the security monitors, a man in ragged military gear walks through the burned building toward the 1st floor. You stand up, take the flashlight, cross the foggy street and go in alone. Every noise makes you whip the light around. Then the black door… and you have to fight your way out. 🎧 Sound on.
Controls: hold W/↑ to walk, mouse to look and aim the flashlight, SPACE/click for actions and quick-time events.
How I built it:
• Rive CLI: the whole game written in RML with a coding agent (Claude Code), verified with rive --verify / inspect / screenshot, pushed to the Rive editor
• GPU Canvas (WGSL): photos projected on simple 3D geometry for real perspective and head-turn parallax, a 3D flashlight spotlight lighting the surfaces, depth dust in the beam, distance fog, fisheye lens, grain and glitch
• Luau scripting: first-person camera that follows the gaze, nervous glances, noises, the fight and its quick-time events with second chances
• Data binding + state machines: story beats, HUD prompts, CCTV feeds, 50+ sound cues
• Audio: 50+ sound effects, zero music
Uses both the CLI and GPU Canvas.
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You wake up inside an abandoned corridor with one objective: reach the last elevator before the entity catches you.
The game features three difficulty modes — Normal, Hard, and Nightmare — with real-time movement, obstacle avoidance, jumpscares, audio, and an interactive escape sequence.
Built with Rive CLI, RML, Luau scripting, GPU Canvas, WGSL shaders, Data Binding, and State Machines.
The environment and gameplay are rendered in real time with GPU Canvas and custom WGSL rendering, while Rive scripting handles movement, collisions, difficulty modes, interactions, audio, and game state.
Playable on desktop and mobile web.
FEATURES USED:
Rive CLI · RML · Luau · GPU Canvas · WGSL · Data Binding · State Machines
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Created for the #rivehalloweenchallenge
amazing idea, nice project....Upgoat !
DOMOVOI is a complete horror game inside a single Rive file.
Halloween night. You're a technician locked in the server room of an empty smart home. The system has detected an "unknown resident" and opens the locks only when you photograph it.
How to play (2-4 min, sound on):
Catch the resident with IR SNAPSHOT: the camera must point at the exact room and zone it is in.
Listen: each room has its own sound. Hover and click things in the picture; the technician's remarks are the only hints.
CAM 3 is offline. Fixing it is the first puzzle and leads to a device that shows where the resident is.
Every miss adds 20% SIGNAL INTERFERENCE. At 100% the console dies.
Stuck? CAM 2 RIGHT: router, then the wall socket, POWER, router again. CAM 3 LEFT: click the vacuum, open MAP, send it to a zone, snapshot the red mark.
Built with the Rive CLI and an AI agent (RML + Luau, 192 unit tests), a GPU Canvas WGSL shader for the camera feed, data binding and state machines. Sound from the Rive editor's library, voice recorded by me.
Don't Look Away: a candle-lit horror game where the GPU shader is the game.
Something is in the house. It only moves in the dark. Your cursor is a candle. While your light is on the Visitor, it stands still; look at the window, the portrait or the door, and it takes a step closer, in a new pose, somewhere new. In the dark you only see two pale points. When it reaches you, the candle goes out.
Features used: Rive CLI and GPU Canvas, plus Scripting, Data Binding and State Machines.
- GPU Canvas (WGSL): the darkness is a fragment shader: a breathing pool of candlelight around the pointer, smoke in the light, a vignette that closes in with dread, and a tear across the picture every time it steps.
- Rive CLI + RML: the room, the words, the view model and the state machine are plain markup, built and checked with rive --verify, inspect and headless screenshots; the demo video was rendered by replaying a scripted pointer frame by frame.
- Luau scripting: one rule, it only moves while the light misses its head and body; it also draws the Visitor and the candle in your hand.
- Data Binding: its distance drives the step counter and the portrait on the wall, which slowly becomes her. State machine: title, ending, and the flash of the scare.
- Rive Editor: the file was opened in the editor, and the claw marks beside the door were drawn there with the pen tool and pulled back with rive pull.
Play it (lights off): https://dont-look-away-nkdh1b.rive.to
Video with the agent workflow and code: https://youtu.be/Pt_J1wdtQxI
The cursor as a candle and a Visitor that moves only when you look away is a strong mechanic. How did you do the lighting in the shader?