Mastering Rive for Game Development: $5K Challenge JourneyMastering Rive for Game Development: $5K Challenge Journey
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Rive just launched a $5K game challenge, so I started rebuilding Snake using Riveโ€™s built-in Lua scripting.
Current progress: โ€“ 20ร—20 grid system (25px tiles) โ€“ Direction controlled via ViewModel triggers โ€“ Tick-based movement loop โ€“ Body follow logic in progress
Still refining growth + collision handling, but the core engine structure is coming together.
Exploring Rive beyond animation into real-time interactive systems.
Abdulquddus's avatar
So cool ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ”ฅ , well done Dara
Daramola's avatar
Thank you chief, I appreciate it!
Rohit's avatar
โ€ข Feb 18
Huge respect for the execution.
Daramola's avatar
Appreciate it, means a lot. Still refining the engine, but itโ€™s coming together.
Stephanie's avatar
Building Snake from scratch in Rive using Lua scripting is such a cool challenge! The grid system approach with tick-based movement is really solid. Can't wait to see the body follow logic completed โ€” that's always the trickiest part in Snake. Good luck with the $5K Games With Rive challenge!
Daramola's avatar
Appreciate it! ๐Ÿ™Œ Yes, the body follow logic is where it gets interesting. Getting the coordinate shifting clean without breaking the tick loop has been the real test.
Excited to refine it further.
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