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Welcome to my Halloween Night project! 🎃👻
I built an interactive Rive animation featuring a big glowing pumpkin that releases friendly ghosts when you tap it, flying bats, a spooky haunted house, and a magical night sky.
I wanted to create a fun and engaging Halloween experience that feels playful rather than scary.
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Here's a little teaser for my entry to the Rive Halloween challenge 🕯️ It's made 100% in Rive, and it's getting spooky 👻
A cursed pop-up book, a single candle, and the clock is ticking…
I built it with the Rive CLI and my coding agent, with candlelight, shadows and fog as WGSL shaders on GPU Canvas.
More soon. 👀
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That shadow! It's sick 🚀
I’m a long-time programmer, and I started in mobile game development in 2011, back in the iPhone 4 era. That experience gave me an appreciation for small interactions that feel good under your fingers. With Peel & Peek, I wanted to capture that feeling in something a little unsettling.
I’d known about Rive for a long time. The Rive CLI and GPU Canvas finally gave me the push to create my first piece with it.
Peel & Peek is a Halloween fidget toy, built with Rive CLI, Claude Code, and GPU Canvas. The grapes, eyes, and slime are drawn by a single fragment shader, without 3D meshes. Luau handles the interactions, a Rive state machine runs the cycle, and data binding lets me tune the details.
Type for Treat! Get your Halloween goodies and practice your typing at the same time!
Play as a ghost (I promise it’s not a kid with a blanket over his head) going trick or treating around his neighborhood with his mom and dad.
Collect candies from each house by typing out words then catching them in your goodies bag. But be careful, some of your neighbors are giving away tooth brushes and tooth paste too, yuck!
Upgrade your gear with the goods from the vampire (AKA dad). He only accepts candy, so you better stock up.
If you need help, mom, I mean, the vampire queen is just around the corner with some tips!
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Had a blast making this game and learned a ton. Super happy I went into this challenge despite barely having enough time. Excited to share more about what I learned in the future when things slow down.
All the designs come from Ivan Dubovik (https://www.instagram.com/vandubovik/?hl=en). All of the game mechanics + Shaders were made using Rive CLI in Cursor. Animations by me.
Hope you have fun with it, and let me know what your high score is!
Great job, Caleb! I gave it a try, but it’s really hard to play, even though I’m familiar with touch typing. I think the candies should fall more slowly, or maybe the bowl at the bottom should be removed to make it a bit easier.