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ROOM 6 is an original first-person psychological horror game set in an isolated roadside motel.
After arriving late at night, the player checks into Room 6. What begins as an ordinary overnight stay gradually becomes something far more unsettling.
Built during the Rive Halloween Challenge using Rive CLI and GPU Canvas, the project features a fully explorable real-time 3D environment, custom WGSL rendering, Luau scripting, data-driven interactions, interactive objects, environmental puzzles, and cinematic storytelling.
The project was developed with Claude Code under my creative direction. I designed the concept, story, environments, visual atmosphere and interactions, then refined the experience through references, iteration and hands-on playtesting.
ROOM 6 demonstrates how Rive CLI and GPU Canvas can be used to create an interactive 3D horror experience beyond traditional interface animation.
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Damn, a full-on horror game running in a browser, and it looks this good? Seriously impressive work. Best of luck with it!
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🎃 EMBERWICK: The Night That Wouldn't End
👻 A third-person ghost story for Halloween night, playable in the browser. You are the Lamplighter, carrying the Glim: a lantern with three lights.
💡 LIGHT shows what is
🌊 ECHO shows what was
🔮 HAUNT shows what the town remembers
Each light physically changes the world, so you solve the town by comparing the three, across four acts and three endings.
Features used: both the Rive CLI and GPU Canvas.
How Rive is used
• The whole HUD is a Rive file written as RML with a coding agent and built with the Rive CLI (verify, publish, push).
• One state machine with seven layers runs it: Mode, Prompt, Subtitles, Token, Memory, Act Complete and Ambient.
• A Game State view model with 15 data-bound properties is fed live by the three.js game: the current light, objective, counter, prompts, subtitles and a mode-switch trigger.
• "Echo Veil" is a full-screen WGSL shader drawn on GPU Canvas through a Luau node script. It reacts to the active light and ripples on every switch.
• Click listeners inside the file let you switch the three lights on the Rive page itself, no game needed.
• The HUD was then refined by hand in the Rive Editor: the mode pips, lettering and the timing of the switch animation.
🎮 Play it: https://emberwick1.netlify.app/street.html
⌨️ Controls: WASD to move, E to interact, 1 / 2 / 3 to switch lights.
🔗 Rive file (click the lights): https://emberwick-hud-w4z1hj.rive.to
lamplighter with three lights is such a halloween hook. beat me to the browser horror niche
Infinite Stairs is a Halloween endless runner: a tower with no top and a spiral staircase that never ends. Jump the goblins and spiders, duck the bats, and slash the skeletons with your sword.
I wanted a game that looks made by hand, and I wanted to make it fast. The characters started as pencil drawings. I built the scene in Blender and the game in Rive, using its CLI, GPU Canvas, and also the new brush tools from rive.
Unique art direction and color palette, wobbly hand-drawn bricks, a one-bit dithered background and grainy textures. 47 iterations in just over a week.
Hope you enjoy it!
Night of the Living Rad
Once a year, the blood moon rises and Chad the Rad Zombie gets a night out but, nobody can know he's real. Hold the mouse to sneak, let go to freeze, and when a window lights up, strike a pose and hope the neighbors don't notice you. Three levels, 16 nosy neighbors, one race against sunrise.
How it came together:
• It started as a "find the hidden wonders" hunt. Midway through, I pivoted to sneak-and-freeze because the game made more sense.
• I cut the per-level timer. With random peeks because it felt unfair, so instead your total run time became the score.
• Luck-based fake-outs became blue TV flickers, so getting caught feels earned, not random.
• My initial build utilized keyboard controls however, the game was experiencing performance issues. So I iterated, condensed and applied logic. I baked the lighting into the art, trimmed heavy effects and moved the controls to the mouse so it plays smoothly on the web.
How it was built:
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Voice: ElevenLabs. Music and sound effects: Pixabay. Full credits live in the game file.
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