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Hello MORTALS!!!
Alex Pluda and I successfully trapped the lord of darkness inside the cursed notch.
We explored a bunch of character directions before landing on this unhinged dark overlord. I did the summoning: drawing, vectorising, and setting up his basic rig in Rive. Then Alex did the notch binding: he built the entire project with the Rive CLI and sealed him into a Swift package with ElevenLabs and Claude integrations. That’s what gives him a voice and his very strong opinions.
Bow before the Notchling!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!
aaaaahhhh and i've finally reached your post!
😂
the cursed notch got me.. bowing from here
You can see our final candidates at 0:16. I was initially drawn to old-school devil depictions, but they felt a little too playful. We wanted him to look like a genuinely intimidating dark overlord, with the humor coming from the contrast between his sinister appearance and the...
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Start halloween already. 🎃
My entry for the Rive Halloween Challenge is a jack-o-lantern with no mesh and no textures. Every pixel is a ray marched signed distance field in a WGSL shader running on Rive's GPU Canvas. There's a candle inside that bleeds through the rind, and fog drifts around him under a bloom pass.
His head follows your cursor on a spring. Move toward the Start button and his mouth opens, his brows drop, the violins swell and the screen starts to shake. Click it and the candle goes red, green, orange, the rim lights spin, and he dances and twirls to a disco loop I generated in Python.
How I built it:
• I wrote the scene in RML with the Rive CLI and a coding agent
• One scene shader plus a bloom chain do all the rendering
• Luau scripts drive the shader, the spring motion and the audio
• Around 50 view model properties are data bound (face shape, lights, fog, bloom)
• State machines handle the button states and party mode
• I tuned the colors, lighting and mood by hand in the Rive Editor
🌕 HITODAMA — The lake is silent.
An interactive psychological horror experience inspired by Japanese folklore. You play as a lone ferryman crossing mysterious waters where drifting fog, strange shadows, and the unknown turn a quiet journey into something unsettling.
What I built:
- A cinematic, moonlit 3D lake environment.
- A custom WGSL fog shader running on Rive's GPU Canvas.
- An interactive Haunt slider that lets you intensify the atmosphere.
- Rive-powered effects built using the Rive CLI, Rive Markup Language, Luau scripting, and data binding.
The lake environment was the foundation. For the @Rive Halloween Challenge, I wanted to push it further by creating a supernatural layer that responds to the player instead of remaining a static visual effect.
This project was an exploration of how code, shaders, and interactive design can turn an atmospheric scene into an experience.
So, Ready to cross the lake?
excited to play.
🧟 Time to think and solve the Zombie Puzzle Race! 🧠
🎮 Play here: START
You might have seen this logical puzzle in different games or puzzle books. I love making puzzle games, so I decided to recreate this one by hand.
For this challenge, I didn't want to give everything to an AI agent. Instead, I decided to use the full power of Rive together with Rough 2D animation and GPU canvas shaders.
I also used many of the Rive features I've learned throughout my journey:
• Triggers
• Property Groups
• State Machines
• Data Binding
• Scripting
🧟 Game Goal
There are 4 zombies — 3 regular zombies and 1 zombie wearing a cap. 🎃
⚡ Each zombie starts with 100 energy.
🍭 Your goal is to get the zombie with the cap to the lollipop, then bring him back together with his friends to the starting position. The other zombies need to help by sharing their energy with each other.
💥 But there's a catch: zombies can share energy only when they are on the same line.
⚠️ Don't waste your energy — one wrong move can make you lose!
🧠 So... can you find the solution?
Try the puzzle and share your solution!
Good luck, and have a great brain teaser! 🧟⚡🍭
like the art and animation a lot! Good luck!