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Here's my spooky submission for the @Rive Halloween challenge: Candy Pail Monsters!
It's a roguelike TCG built entirely in Rive using CLI, GPU canvas, the brush tools, state machines, and more. It's playable on your desktop, tablet, and phone!
To play the game, either use the View Project button, or this link: https://candy-pail-monsters-g9jrpy.rive.to/?fit=layout
Let me know if you can beat the final neighborhood! I've done a bunch of runs and still can't quite do it.
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The table is haunted, so is the cue ball!
For the @Rive Halloween Challenge here on Contra, I've channeled my inner demons to create a spooky 8-ball pool game called 'Ghoul Table'. 🎱
It was built entirely in Rive using the new CLI, 3D objects, shaders, physics and more... and it ships as a .riv file under 10MB!
What crazy cue ball should I add to the game next? I'll implement the best suggestions!
Halloween Hotel: a crooked Gothic hotel under a giant moon. Click the windows to catch 15 famous monsters mid-routine (Dracula shaving at a mirror with no reflection, the Mummy wrapping himself in toilet paper, the Grim Reaper working the front desk) and find them all before sunrise. Every set of three you finish plays a reward, and finding everyone finally lights up the NO VACANCY sign.
How it was built: I modeled and baked the hotel in Blender, and it runs as real-time 3D (140k triangles) inside Rive's GPU Canvas, with custom WGSL shaders for the sway, the shutters, the neon and the magic. Claude Code and the Rive CLI wrote the scene in RML and the logic in Luau, and checked their own work with --verify and headless screenshots. Data binding drives the guest cards, the tracker and the mobile layout, and state machines run the card, the welcome and the finale. After rive push, I refined it by hand in the Rive Editor.
Features used: Rive CLI + GPU Canvas, plus Scripting, Data Binding and State Machines.
Play it (best on desktop with sound on): https://halloween-hotel.vercel.app
Loved this! I found 14 out of 15. Maybe the flying witch was the 15th and I missed clicking on it. Don't ever remove this! Bookmarked forever!
🧟 Time to think and solve the Zombie Puzzle Race! 🧠
🎮 Play here: START
You might have seen this logical puzzle in different games or puzzle books. I love making puzzle games, so I decided to recreate this one by hand.
For this challenge, I didn't want to give everything to an AI agent. Instead, I decided to use the full power of Rive together with Rough 2D animation and GPU canvas shaders.
I also used many of the Rive features I've learned throughout my journey:
• Triggers
• Property Groups
• State Machines
• Data Binding
• Scripting
🧟 Game Goal
There are 4 zombies — 3 regular zombies and 1 zombie wearing a cap. 🎃
⚡ Each zombie starts with 100 energy.
🍭 Your goal is to get the zombie with the cap to the lollipop, then bring him back together with his friends to the starting position. The other zombies need to help by sharing their energy with each other.
💥 But there's a catch: zombies can share energy only when they are on the same line.
⚠️ Don't waste your energy — one wrong move can make you lose!
🧠 So... can you find the solution?
Try the puzzle and share your solution!
Good luck, and have a great brain teaser! 🧟⚡🍭
