Punch 1.0.1 🤖 Rive is my favourite 2D engine. So naturally, I built a 3D fighting game in it.

Punch is a 1 vs 1 robot combat game where every mesh, every polygon, every depth-sorted face is computed in real-time through Luau scripting. No external 3D library nor API. The gameplay is simple and brutal: throw a punch, parry if you can, hope for the best. Two robots, one arena, zero polygons wasted on diplomacy. Luau handles perspective projection, mesh rendering, depth-sorting, face culling, and real-time animation, all running within the Rive state machine. The robot models are pushed from Blender to Rive. Every frame, the script redraws the scene. It runs in my browser today, my phone asap. A fighting game felt like the right kind of absurd.

Play it here: https://pencil-park.com/piot

Rive is so powerful, great work!

My entry for the Games with Rive challenge, finally! I was super happy to put my game dev skills to use.

⚔️ Battle Stride — a card-based dungeon crawler where you lay down path cards to guide a soldier through procedurally generated dungeons, battle enemies, and collect relics.

I used Rive's state machines to drive all the character and card animations, data binding to keep the HUD in sync with game state, and listeners for interactive hover and click effects on the cards.

All the art—characters, cards, tiles, and relics—was hand-drawn and animated in Rive's editor using vector shapes, then exported as lightweight files for the web.

Audio events in the state machine handle combat and pickup sounds. The whole thing runs in the browser with lightweight vector exports.

🕹️ Play it here: https://battle-stride.netlify.app/