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Guysss! 👀
Those of you who don’t want to be single and alone on Halloween… you might want to think twice. 💀💀💀
I’m cooking something for you.
And it’s definitely not safe. 👀
Booooo! 🎃🩸
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🧟 ZOMBIE CRUSHER 🚗
The city fell tonight. You've got a rusty orange car, a full tank, and a city full of the undead. Run them down before they swarm you.
▶ Play: Zombie Crusher
🎮 Controls
W / ↑: gas
S / ↓: brake and reverse
A D / ← →: steer
Space: handbrake drift
Mouse or touch: hold where you want to go and the car drives there
Click the game first so it picks up your keys.
📜 Rules
Crush zombies by hitting them at speed. If you're too slow, they get pushed aside and start biting your car.
Know your zombies:
Walkers are slow, worth 100 points.
Runners are fast, worth 150 points.
Brutes are huge and only go down if you hit them at full speed, but they're worth 400 points.
Build combos: crush zombies in quick succession to multiply your points, up to ×10.
Watch your health: bites and crashes into buildings damage the car. At zero health, your car is wrecked and the game is over.
🩹 Med kits repair your car by 30% of its health.
🔋 Batteries give you a 10-second shield. The car takes no damage, and every zombie that touches the shield is crushed, brutes included.
Waves: a new wave starts every 40 seconds, with more zombies, more runners, and more brutes.
Use the minimap in the corner to find pickups: red dots are med kits, blue dots are batteries.
How long can you survive? Share your best score! 💀
This is awesome! Such great memories of those early GTA games. Congrats!
The Last Lantern - a full 3D Halloween game, built and running entirely inside one Rive file.
The candle is dying, and the graveyard is not empty. You wander a haunted graveyard in first person with a lantern, catch ghosts in your light, bring their souls to five jack-o'-lanterns to relight them, and survive the red-eyed wraith until you reach the church, before your candle burns out.
How it's built😍 - Rive CLI + coding agent: I directed my coding agent through the Rive CLI. It wrote the RML scene, the Luau game scripts and the WGSL shaders, verified every build with rive --verify, captured test frames headless and pushed straight to my Rive file. I played every build and steered each iteration (controls, difficulty, fog, the scare).
- GPU Canvas: the whole 3D world is drawn in real time with custom WGSL shaders: moonlight shadow map, triplanar textures, wind bending the dead trees, volumetric ground fog lit by the lantern and the moon, 4x MSAA and a filmic post pass.
- Scripting: Luau runs the game: first-person movement and collisions, ghost and wraith AI, soul capture, candle wax, havens, tutorial, sound, dawn ending.
- Data Binding: a view model drives the HUD (souls, lanterns, candle), the title, game-over and dawn screens, tutorial hints and keyboard input.
- State Machines: screen transitions and UI animations.
- Human touch in the Rive Editor: I reworked the title screen by hand (colors, title, How to Play layout).
- Blender: I modeled the graveyard (about 185,000 triangles), exported as a binary mesh the shaders draw directly.
Controls: hold the mouse to walk, move it left or right to turn, click a ghost to catch it, press FLARE to drive the wraith away. Arrow keys work too.
Full HD video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dd9TPvcsD7B/
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A full 3D graveyard with first-person movement inside one Rive file is ambitious. How did you keep performance steady with the lantern light and the ghosts on screen together?
The Haunted Room is an interactive, cozy-spooky desktop fidget toy, a little haunted parlor you can leave open on your screen and poke at whenever you need a break.
No instructions. No hints. Nothing will tell you what to press. Just a cozy haunted room full of secrets, waiting to be poked at your own pace.
▶️ Play it on desktop: https://haunted-room-wcc682.rive.to/
🎬 Watch video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xDFD62jbs_I
FEATURES USED: Rive CLI + GPU Canvas (both) 🖥️ Rive CLI The entire scene was built from the terminal with the Rive CLI and Claude Code as my coding agent, writing the scene in RML with a live preview.
I worked in stages: layout first, then one interaction at a time, iterating by feel on every timing and effect.
✨ GPU Canvas (WGSL shaders) Custom shaders power the animated fireplace, the rippling portrait transformation and the twinkling stars in the landscape painting. ⚙️ Also used: State Machines (every hover and click interaction), Data Binding (a view model links the systems together, so lighting the fire warms the room, deepens the shadows and scares away the wall eyes), Scripting (looping background music with a mute toggle) and Audio.
🎨 Human Touch I art-directed the whole room: generated a concept, then cut, cleaned and composited every piece of art by hand. I made the calls on what stayed and what went. A bandage whip, a "Happy Halloween" garland and a spider web were all built and cut because they crowded the scene. I finished it in the Rive Editor, adding shadows by hand so every object sits in the room. The music was picked to feel playful-haunted, not scary, so it's something you'd actually want to leave running.
App and video created by Ashley Phillips
Music: Mikhail Smusev via Pixabay
Sound effects: freesound_community via Pixabay
Voice: ElevenLabs generated
Wow! Exactly the horror vibes I love.