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There's a few hours left on the Rive Game Jam challenge, and it's just occurred to me that I'm currently 2nd place for Community Favorite!!!
If you'd like to support my little racing game entry, see the post linked below!
My @Rive racing game breakdown! 🚗💨
I thought I'd share a short breakdown exploring the systems and ideas behind the project so far!
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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/
Unmasked,
An imposter-themed party game that tests trust between friends. Unmasked uses the smartphone as a central part of the game, with no downloads required: just scan, log in, and start to be suspicious.
Local winner of the Global Game Jam 2026 and made from idea to playable multiplayer game under a 48 hrs window.
The game was built using Unity, Rive and the backend was made in Node.js with Socket.io Leveraging heavily on Rive and its useful tools like data-binding, state machines and scripting, for a rich animation experience in which the user can see they avatars changing in real time.
Still not done with the game, currently working on using Rive for all of the UI, plan to release it publicly once it’s all done.
Hope You all like my entry for the Games with Rive Challenge.
✌️
Dave
My entry for the Rive Game Challenge! 🚀
A fully functional 2D incremental clicker where you manage a grid, harvest resources, and automate an economy to fight a spreading virus.
• Designed with a solid GDD for balanced incremental math & upgrades.
• Grid Mechanics: Plant seeds & collect wood. Beware the dynamic "Rot" hazard that infects healthy tiles!
• Custom AI (Scripting): Smart targeting logic. The Sower plants, Reaper harvests, and Slime hunts the Rot.
• Economy: Reinvest wood to level up helpers for speed & massive Critical Hits.
• Tech Stack: Global state script for grid arrays, Data Binding for real-time UI, and State Machines for seamless animations.
Play it here: https://www.eduxdux.com/game
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