Explore Interactive Snake Game Built with Rive and Lua Scripting

Explore Interactive Snake Game Built with Rive and Lua ScriptingExplore Interactive Snake Game Built with Rive and Lua Scripting

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Daramola Oluwatimilehin

• Feb 23

Built the classic Snake game entirely inside Rive using scripting and data binding.

This was an experiment pushing Rive beyond animation into interactive systems.

Movement, food spawning, and game state are all driven by Lua while the UI stays synced through a ViewModel.

Still polishing the web export, but the core gameplay is working and it was a fun challenge to build.

Play / watch the demo here 👇

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Abhiram Tinguria

• Feb 23

Very cool exploration 👏 Pushing Rive into interactive systems opens interesting UX possibilities. The ViewModel sync approach is especially intriguing.

Daramola Oluwatimilehin

• Feb 23

Appreciate it! I was really curious how far Rive could go beyond animation, and the ViewModel sync made the whole system much easier to manage.

Abhiram Tinguria

• Feb 23

Very cool approach 👏 Curious — did you run into any performance or state-management challenges while wiring the ViewModel sync?

Daramola Oluwatimilehin

• Feb 23

Thank you! The trickiest part was managing the segment updates as the snake grows. Using the ViewModel as the source of truth helped keep the UI and game logic in sync without things getting messy.

Kiera Sexton

• Feb 23

Great job Daramola! Do you have a link so I can play the game?

Daramola Oluwatimilehin

• Feb 23

Thank you! Yes you can try it here: https://rive.app/community/files/26481-49644-snake-game-built-with-rive-scripting

Would love to hear what you think.

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Snake Game – Built with Rive Scripting

A recreation of the classic Snake game built entirely inside Rive using scripting and data binding. The project demonstrates how interactive systems can be created in Rive beyond traditional animation, including movement logic, food spawning, score tracking, and UI state management. Great as a reference for designers and developers exploring Rive’s scripting capabilities.

Stephanie Asoegwu

pro

• Feb 24

Using Lua for game state and Rive for the UI is such a smart separation. Can't wait to try the web export!

Wuraola Olaibi

pro

• Feb 24

This was nostalgic to see! I remember playing this when I was young! welldone👏🏽

Simply7 Studio

pro

• Feb 25

This is really realy cool snake game in nokia was actually my fav

Daniel Mansz

pro

• Aug 14

Small interactions can carry a lot of weight.

I designed and implemented this @Rive animated character for Rideaway’s analytics consent banner.

The goal was not to push people toward “Accept”. It was to make an easily ignored privacy decision more noticeable, more human, and worth a moment of attention, while keeping both choices equally clear.

See it live: https://rideaway.app

Does motion improve this moment, or would you prefer a completely static consent banner?

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acream

pro

• Aug 15

coool

Gabor Molnar

pro

• Aug 14

A or B? AI / Data product The goal isn't to illustrate AI literally. It's to create an abstract form that captures complexity and intelligence without defaulting to the same visual clichés everyone has already seen.

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Nazar Koliano

pro

• Aug 14

the no-clichés bar is the hard part tbh

Alex K

pro

• Aug 14

Mobile UI swipe animation

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Maty Sandoval

max

• Aug 14

Love the swipe-to-pay interaction, that little bounce before the green confirm screen sells it. What almost didn't make the cut here, was there a version with more steps before you simplified it down to this?