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I took the classic Snake game and gave it legs. Not the snake. The food. 🐍
Anaconda is my work-in-progress entry for the Rive Halloween Challenge. There's a party at a mansion, an anaconda lets itself in, and the guests would very much like to leave. Your vision shrinks the hungrier you get, and every kill gives you a split second of seeing everything.
I'm building it with the Rive CLI. I describe the game to my coding agent and watch it come together in the live preview. The vision system is a WGSL shader running on GPU Canvas. It's playable now. Art, animation and sound are next.
You're invited. RSVP not required.
🎮 Play it here: https://folarinpearse.github.io/anaconda/
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