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Anyone else miss Insaniquarium 🐟 🐟 🐟 ?
Well this time round for the Rive X Contra #characterchallenge, I've made a fully interactive aquarium.
The fish wander around naturally on their own, and have a dynamic hunger meter that changes their behavior depending on how hungry they are. Click the screen to drop some food, and they'll track it down.
Some of my favorite stuff under the hood:
- 2.5D Rigging: The fish rotate smoothly from side-to-side using Joysticks
- Proximity Cursor Tracking: The eyes not only follow the cursor, but only if it's close enough
- Interactive Plants: Using IK and Distance Constraints, I made plants that you can interact with the cursor
- Variable Speed: The fish doesn't just move fast across the screen like a PNG being moved, but the animation also accelerates realistically
- Editable Colors: Each fish can be customized on the fly
Go play with them yourself and check it out:
https://rive.app/community/files/28158-53168-interactive-aquarium/
Or watch the video for an explanation of how it works (sound on).
Haha thanks! And thanks for the goat as well 😊
Ooooh gosh! I love this!!!! These little fishes are so cuuute!!! Would love to have this one as a screensaver 😍 😍 😍
Hahaha thanks! And you got me nostalgic for those old screensavers now. The pipes, the mazes, and of course that realistic aquarium 😊
Scrolled past this and immediately thought of Insaniquarium before reading your description! Your fish are much more expressive than the ones in the original game, too. Awesome work! 🙌
Haha nice! Love them 😍
I love it! Those little fish are super cute!
They are so cute! And I love the motion, so nicely done.
I really like the direction you took with this project. Everything feels intentional, and the final result comes together beautifully.
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