1930s Retro Shooter Game Development Journey in Rive

1930s Retro Shooter Game Development Journey in Rive1930s Retro Shooter Game Development Journey in Rive

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Stephan Springmann

• Feb 24

1930s Style Shooter built in Rive 🐦🎞️

For the Rive Game Challenge on Contra, I built a fully playable shooter inspired by "Crazy Chicken." Visually, I went for a retro 1930s aesthetic: I hand-drew every asset, mixing Frame-by-Frame animation with Rive bones. I built this in just six days! It is currently in Beta (WIP), but I plan to keep developing it. ✅ Dynamic Spawning: Using Artboard:instance() for bird prefabs. ✅ Logic: Mechanics via Node Script Lifecycle (init, advance, draw). ✅ ViewModel: HUD & State sync via context:viewModel(). ✅ Rendering: Manual control over render stack & matrix transforms. ✅ Input: Precise hitbox queries & pointer event forwarding.

Play it right here! 👉 https://rive.app/community/files/26508-49695-pigeon-wars-1930s-arcade-shooter-beta/

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Clémence Lagarde - Mospa

• Feb 25

I love the visual direction, one of my favorite entry!

Stephan Springmann

• Feb 25

Thank you! 😊

Paweł Andrzejewski

pro

• Mar 18

Car interfaces keep gaining features, but experience gets lost in complexity. With River, we stripped that back: only surface what the driver needs, when they need it.

We wanted the HMI to belong to the car, not sit on top. So we designed both as one system: car, interior, cluster, main display, app.

Rive was key to bringing the whole system to life. We used joysticks and blend states to animate the cluster gauges, solos to play back a pre-rendered Blender navigation scene on the central display, and state machine inputs to bring the whole prototype to life.

We then built a companion app and plugged it into a manufacturer's API to test against real vehicle data. The app works like a key: gives you access and gets out of the way. Just the right function at the right moment.

One ecosystem where every screen earns its place.

Completed work

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Dakshi Parashar

• Mar 18

This is so good it almost feels unreal. Incredible work and amazing efforts! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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max

• Mar 18

We are combining 3 main HMI experiences from 2 vehicles into a unified entry. Having a lot of fun on this one! Expect the official entry soon. Can you guess what they are? WIP 👇 🔊

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Edgar Yan

pro

• Mar 18

uf bro this one is a killer! the matrix grid is a cool idea!

Alexis Presa

max

• Mar 18

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Had fun trying out Doodles - stoodio.doodles.app/ai with a photo I took a while back with some of the team at Contra 🥲 It's funny seeing how Doodles reinterprets the photos 🤣 but it was such a fun day 🥹 Do you like the Doodles version?

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