🎃 EMBERWICK: The Night That Wouldn't End

👻 A third-person ghost story for Halloween night, playable in the browser. You are the Lamplighter, carrying the Glim: a lantern with three lights. 💡 LIGHT shows what is 🌊 ECHO shows what was 🔮 HAUNT shows what the town remembers Each light physically changes the world, so you solve the town by comparing the three, across four acts and three endings.

Features used: both the Rive CLI and GPU Canvas.

How Rive is used • The whole HUD is a Rive file written as RML with a coding agent and built with the Rive CLI (verify, publish, push). • One state machine with seven layers runs it: Mode, Prompt, Subtitles, Token, Memory, Act Complete and Ambient. • A Game State view model with 15 data-bound properties is fed live by the three.js game: the current light, objective, counter, prompts, subtitles and a mode-switch trigger. • "Echo Veil" is a full-screen WGSL shader drawn on GPU Canvas through a Luau node script. It reacts to the active light and ripples on every switch. • Click listeners inside the file let you switch the three lights on the Rive page itself, no game needed. • The HUD was then refined by hand in the Rive Editor: the mode pips, lettering and the timing of the switch animation.

🎮 Play it: https://emberwick1.netlify.app/street.html ⌨️ Controls: WASD to move, E to interact, 1 / 2 / 3 to switch lights.

🔗 Rive file (click the lights): https://emberwick-hud-w4z1hj.rive.to

lamplighter with three lights is such a halloween hook. beat me to the browser horror niche