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My entry for the @rive_app Impossible UI challenge ✨
I gave myself an extra challenge: to build a small story around the interface.
So I made an alien planetary catalog.
For them, Earth is an oxygen-water hazard.
And some planets that are deadly for humans might actually be viable for them.
Fully built in Rive: data binding, state machines, scripted components, sounds, and much more.
You can play with it live here: https://rive.app/marketplace/27516-52003-alien-planetary-catalog/
Thanks for the challenge, Rive. This was really fun 👽
wow this is incredible
Nice project, cool details.
This is so cool!
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Cursor Camp is a live multiplayer playground where up to 1000 real cursors from around the globe share the same space simultaneously. A beach, lazy river, clubhouse, campfire, soccer pitch, cave, treehouse and more, brought to life through over 40 Rive-powered interactions and animations spanning environments, characters, objects, and interactions.
My role was building the entire Rive layer. Starting from the illustrator’s artwork, I translated everything into interactive systems, rigging and animating scenes, characters, and objects while developing the state machines and behaviours that make the world feel dynamic and alive.
The real challenge was making it data-aware. Using ViewModel data binding and Luau scripting throughout, every animation responds to live runtime input, with cursors picking up objects, triggering states, and reacting to a constantly changing world.
That includes moments like players duetting on a piano in real time, progressively eating an entire cake with each click, adding sticks to a fire to increase its intensity, or dropping ingredients into a cauldron to dynamically change the colour of the broth.
The result is a Rive system ready to be wired into Neal Agarwal’s multiplayer backend, where WebSockets keep thousands of players in sync in real time.
It hit the front page of Hacker News on day one, with people asking one question over and over:
How is this running in a browser?
That’s the impossible UI.
I like the art style and the all details of the game. Really good work.
👉 Join the challenge: https://on.contra.com/cwFMdt 🚀
💰 $10,000 is up for grabs in Contra’s Impossible UI with Rive Challenge.
Build the kind of UI that makes people ask: “How is this even possible?” 🤯
Wild interactions. Unreal interfaces. Rive-powered chaos. 🎨⚡
Check the guidelines, start building, and show us your most impossible UI. 🔥
#impossibleuiwithrive
Great work👏🔥🔥
This is another project from a while ago, another style of UI <UwU>
this project was in collab with Jc Toon and Jerry Lui <3
Music by Dimitri Novikov
this is fun to watch =) I like Guezzilla, really thoughfull monster =)
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