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Hello everyone!
reDish is my submission for the Rive #characterchallenge: a cooking companion and gamified recipe app, with Rady as the main character living inside the product.
Together with Dolphin from Lupian we shaped the core app idea, then I handled the design, build, and animation. The prototype shows Rady across recipe steps, VS cooking mode, achievements, splash/home screens, and a reusable prop system designed so longer recipe flows could be generated efficiently from backend data, without rebuilding every scene from scratch.
Swap system preview demo:
https://rive.app/s/t2iBfm91CEGQhw2N-FqoCA/?runtime=rive-renderer
Let me know what you think.
Good luck for everyone on the challange! :)
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This is so fun
Great idea, very unique
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