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🎃 The Rive Halloween Challenge has officially come to an end!
With $10K in cash prizes on the line, I’m sure I’m not the only one wondering… 👀
Who are the winners? 🏆
I’m excited to see the amazing creations from the community and find out who takes home the prize!
Anyone else waiting for the results? 👻✨
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Here’s my submission for the Rive Halloween Challenge: Dusty the Dreamcleaner, a game I’ve wanted to make for 10 years, finally built in Rive.
Haunted Hall
Is a found-tape, first-person Halloween shooter built in Rive. You enter a haunted house through a camcorder viewfinder and fight your way through four stages (The Entry, The Deep Hall, The Dark. Hall and the Exit) with a double-barrel shotgun. Ghosts drift out of the dark, bats swarm from the rafters, and a zombie shuffles toward the camera, getting angrier every time you hit it.
Features used: Rive CLI and GPU Canvas.
Rive CLI: the whole game was built by describing it to my coding agent (Claude Code), which wrote the RML (scenes, state machines, view models and data binding) and the Luau scripts (stages, enemy waves, zombie, bat swarm, shotgun and reload logic), checked live in the rive . preview.
GPU Canvas: a WGSL atmosphere pass gives the cursed camcorder look: chromatic split, room-dependent light flicker, vignette, animated film grain, and glitch bands with a red wash when you get hit.
Rive Editor: final polish done by hand in the editor.
Growing up in Russia in the 90s Halloween was familiar to me only via movies on bootle VHS. This was the inspiration for my entry for this challenge.
Candykids 2 is a tower defence game that lives on a worn-out tape. Kids and teens are trick-or-treating their way to your door, and your scarecrows are two-sided signs. One side scares the little ones; flip it, and the other side roasts the teenagers. You have to keep flipping as the crowd changes, because teens will happily wreck a scarecrow that’s showing the wrong side. Every visitor you scare off drops candy, which you spend on more scarecrows. But that candy is also all that stands between you and the kids. Run out, and they eat you.
I built it with the Rive CLI, working with Claude: the game logic, rules and scene are all RML and Luau scripts. GPU Canvas does the fun parts: the 3D tape sliding into an old TV/VCR, and a CRT/VHS shader over the whole game. Then I went over all generated placeholders to give it personal touch in the Rive Editor.
It was my first time trying Rive CLI + Claude and in the end had less time than I expected and much more hurdles to go through but it was a great learning experience and I will definitely use this workflow in the future.
Music by Nicholas Panek from Pixabay.