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Alright ! Everything's coming together slowly. Having the software running in Rive runtime, building real time cinematics, and having all the keys to edit things by hand and directing AI. Feels so good !
There's a lot to show, yet a lot to do. I'm new to build in public somehow but I think the tool itself will be open sourced as I think it would be valuable for people to contribute and maybe create some 3D games inside Rive with all the tools they would need ? I don't know 😃 At least I'm having fun !
Using CC0's assets here for the demo from https://kenney.nl/assets
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🧟 ZOMBIE CRUSHER 🚗
The city fell tonight. You've got a rusty orange car, a full tank, and a city full of the undead. Run them down before they swarm you.
▶ Play: Zombie Crusher
🎮 Controls
W / ↑: gas
S / ↓: brake and reverse
A D / ← →: steer
Space: handbrake drift
Mouse or touch: hold where you want to go and the car drives there
Click the game first so it picks up your keys.
📜 Rules
Crush zombies by hitting them at speed. If you're too slow, they get pushed aside and start biting your car.
Know your zombies:
Walkers are slow, worth 100 points.
Runners are fast, worth 150 points.
Brutes are huge and only go down if you hit them at full speed, but they're worth 400 points.
Build combos: crush zombies in quick succession to multiply your points, up to ×10.
Watch your health: bites and crashes into buildings damage the car. At zero health, your car is wrecked and the game is over.
🩹 Med kits repair your car by 30% of its health.
🔋 Batteries give you a 10-second shield. The car takes no damage, and every zombie that touches the shield is crushed, brutes included.
Waves: a new wave starts every 40 seconds, with more zombies, more runners, and more brutes.
Use the minimap in the corner to find pickups: red dots are med kits, blue dots are batteries.
How long can you survive? Share your best score! 💀
This is awesome! Such great memories of those early GTA games. Congrats!
I wanted to test whether an AI Timeline Agent could transform ordinary, flat mobile footage into a viral, cinema-grade VFX shot that would normally take hours of node compositing in After Effects.
Using raw 1080×1920 60 FPS golden-hour sunset footage shot on my Samsung Galaxy S21+, I directed Invideo Editor's Timeline Agent to build a dynamic "Hail Mary Highlight Trails" effect, layering anamorphic light streaks, atmospheric cloud dispersion, and a punchy cinematic grade directly onto an editable multitrack timeline.
PROMPT: Build a cinematic 'Hail Mary Highlight Trails' effect on this sunset clip: duplicate the clip on a secondary layer with Screen blend mode, apply a high-intensity anamorphic lens flare with light streaks across the clouds, add an aurora glow shader, and finish with a rich golden-hour contrast grade.
Nice work
The Haunted Room is an interactive, cozy-spooky desktop fidget toy, a little haunted parlor you can leave open on your screen and poke at whenever you need a break.
No instructions. No hints. Nothing will tell you what to press. Just a cozy haunted room full of secrets, waiting to be poked at your own pace.
▶️ Play it on desktop: https://haunted-room-wcc682.rive.to/
🎬 Watch video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xDFD62jbs_I
FEATURES USED: Rive CLI + GPU Canvas (both) 🖥️ Rive CLI The entire scene was built from the terminal with the Rive CLI and Claude Code as my coding agent, writing the scene in RML with a live preview.
I worked in stages: layout first, then one interaction at a time, iterating by feel on every timing and effect.
✨ GPU Canvas (WGSL shaders) Custom shaders power the animated fireplace, the rippling portrait transformation and the twinkling stars in the landscape painting. ⚙️ Also used: State Machines (every hover and click interaction), Data Binding (a view model links the systems together, so lighting the fire warms the room, deepens the shadows and scares away the wall eyes), Scripting (looping background music with a mute toggle) and Audio.
🎨 Human Touch I art-directed the whole room: generated a concept, then cut, cleaned and composited every piece of art by hand. I made the calls on what stayed and what went. A bandage whip, a "Happy Halloween" garland and a spider web were all built and cut because they crowded the scene. I finished it in the Rive Editor, adding shadows by hand so every object sits in the room. The music was picked to feel playful-haunted, not scary, so it's something you'd actually want to leave running.
App and video created by Ashley Phillips
Music: Mikhail Smusev via Pixabay
Sound effects: freesound_community via Pixabay
Voice: ElevenLabs generated
Wow! Exactly the horror vibes I love.