DEAD STILL is a Victorian spirit-photography game in three sittings. Ghosts can’t be seen. Only photographed. You are J. Ashworth, “Photographer of the Departed”. Frame your clients, turn the brass focus ring, and hold a long exposure while the plate drinks the light. Then rock the plate in a red-lit darkroom and watch who was really standing beside them: - The widow: her husband, in his empty armchair. The first sitting teaches you, step by step. - The twins: a dead girl who will not keep still. Frost on the glass betrays her, and only a magnesium flash can freeze her. - Mr. Hale: an investigator who asks for a portrait “with whoever is here”. Then the print looks back at you.

Rive features used: 1) Rive CLI: the whole project is RML, Luau and WGSL, checked with --verify, inspect, --screenshot and --test (20 unit tests that guard the rules), and shipped with --publish=web.

2) GPU Canvas: the shaders are the mechanics:

3) Scripting (Luau): the sittings, the scoring and the story; it scrubs Ashworth's Wake timeline to open his eyes.

4) Data Binding: one view model drives the whole HUD.

5) State machines on every artboard; the HUD's hints run on one.

6) Skinned image meshes with bones for every character, each with an idle timeline.

7) Layout, vector feathering, trim paths, dash paths and Rive audio (gapless loops for the clock, the candles and the darkroom). The video shows the game itself (every gameplay frame rendered by the game), the CLI run that shipped it, its RML, Luau and WGSL, the GPU Canvas passes, the file opened in the Rive Editor, and the same signed .riv running in a local build of my own portfolio site.

Amazing....

Close a retainer period with a traceable opening balance for the next one.

In this kit's fictional C-82 example, September includes 12 current-period hours, no opening carry-in and 9 hours delivered. The agreement permits up to 4 unused current hours to roll. After the final time record is reconciled, 3 hours can become the next period's opening carry-in.

A useful closeout record connects four things: • The ended period and final time-source reference • The unused current-period hours after applying the agreed consumption rule • The permitted carry-out, limited by the agreed cap • The reference carried into the next period's opening balance

Check the source cutoff before copying a number forward. A late or disputed time entry needs a recorded resolution. Under this kit's stated rule, unused opening carry-in expires and never rolls a second time.

The preview is the actual Close the period page from the fictional completed example in the Client Retainer Hours and Rollover Kit. The download includes an editable Word packet, Excel tracker, matching print PDF, fictional completed example and Quick Start.

Use it only when its carry-in-first consumption and rollover rules match your existing agreement. The files support manual reconciliation; they do not approve extra work, change terms or create invoices.

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