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To motivate me to run more I created a running RPG game.
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DOOMSWIPE -- Doomscrolling for monsters -- is my entry for the Rive Halloween Challenge!
This is what comes out when you pour an ounce of CLI, a drop of GPU Canvas, a spoon of craft, a cup of scripting, a web of state machine transitions, and a ton of intention into building something w/ Rive 🎃
A look at the main menu I've been building for Dead Orbit, for the @Rive × Contra Halloween challenge
🔊 Sound on
Brought 2D artboards into 3D space using GPU Canvas, with custom shaders, interactive elements, and a few Halloween surprises
Built with Rive CLI, Luau scripting, WGSL shaders, state machines, and data binding. Everything runs inside a single Rive file
🎃 Can you beat Jack at darts? 🎯
🎮 Play here: START
This is my second game for the challenge, and honestly it was a totally different experience from the first one.
Last time I built everything by hand. This time I wanted to try the Rive CLI with Claude, and wow… I just described what I wanted in the terminal, and step by step a whole 3D darts game appeared. Jack, the dartboard, the castle room, all made with GPU Canvas shaders, no 3D models at all.
But not everything went smoothly 😅 AI really struggles to draw nice SVG icons and cards, so I opened the project in the Rive Editor and redesigned the cards, their icons and the button animations myself.
🎯 How to play
You play 5 rounds against Jack, a pumpkin-headed gentleman who really doesn't like losing.
Pull back to aim, release, and stop the meter in the green zone for a perfect throw.
Before every throw you pick one of 3 mystery Halloween cards 🃏 Some help you (Bat Swarm, Witch's Brew…), some are curses (Tombstone 😈). And yes, Jack gets cards too.
This was my first project like this and I enjoyed every minute of it. I still can't believe how easy it was to make a 3D game this way, and I already have ideas for the next ones 👀
Try it and tell me your score! 🎃👻
