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BUCKSHOT MANOR š
A haunted house. Two barrels. One long night.
Buckshot Manor is a first-person haunted-house shooter built entirely in Rive. You fight through six rooms of ghosts, zombies, wraiths and exploding pumpkins, then face The Watcher, a giant eye waiting in the foyer, and survive until dawn breaks.
How it's made
Rive CLI + Claude Code: the whole game was built by prompting an agent that writes RML markup, Luau scripts and shaders, with rive . live-reloading every change. In the video, one prompt ("make the candlelight ghostly greenā). retints the whole house in seconds.
ā GPU Canvas: the 3D world is a custom WGSL renderer with real-time lights, shadows, fog, bloom and volumetric light, all running inside a Rive file.
Rive Editor, by hand: the HUD, title, death and win cards are real artboards with state machines and data binding. I refined them by hand in the Editor, including recoloring and reframing the haunted portrait that hangs on the walls.
Play it: https://haunted-fps-nms8do.rive.to
Controls: WASD to move, mouse to look, click to fire, F to fire both barrels, R to reload, Q to swap to the axe.
ā¢ Oct 13
this is insane you built this entirely in rive? the atmosphere is so good. love the pumpkin mechanic haha
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ā¢ Oct 12
Hereās my submission for the Rive Halloween Challenge: Dusty the Dreamcleaner, a game Iāve wanted to make for 10 years, finally built in Rive.
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My First Boo! is a Halloween score-chasing game about an ink ghost scared of its own shadow.
Tap falling candy, avoid bats and webs, and tackle three stages with changing wind, tougher item patterns and a final-stage comeback chance. During bonus time, drag the lantern after the fleeing ghost. Grow its silhouette on the wall until it notices, freezes and jumps in fright to earn BOO! +300.
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A shared Supabase leaderboard compares playersā best runs. The 48-second walkthrough shows gameplay, actual RML excerpts and an Editor view of the layered artwork.
Play + online leaderboard: https://my-first-boo.my-first-boo-cloud-host.workers.dev/
Rive showcase: https://my-first-boo-31s4dy.rive.to/
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