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ā¢ Jan 1
In the December 2025 - wrapped up this Unity Tower Defense overhaul! š
Started with legacy spaghetti code, tight coupling, and Update() hell. Over 6 phases, rebuilt with ECS-inspired systems, runtime fixes, pooling, GPU instancing, SRP Batcher & shadow optimization.
Results:
ā¢ +125% FPS (63.9 ā 144.1 VSync-locked)
ā¢ 99.5% fewer Update() calls
ā¢ 74% batch reduction (7,277 ā 1,917)
ā¢ 99% shadow casters cut (9,125 ā 83)
Outcome: Scalable codebase + ~136 pages of docs (architecture, metrics, handover guide). Locked at 144 FPS - rewarding! š
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ā¢ Feb 24
Unmasked,
An imposter-themed party game that tests trust between friends. Unmasked uses the smartphone as a central part of the game, with no downloads required: just scan, log in, and start to be suspicious.
Local winner of the Global Game Jam 2026 and made from idea to playable multiplayer game under a 48 hrs window.
The game was built using Unity, Rive and the backend was made in Node.js with Socket.io Leveraging heavily on Rive and its useful tools like data-binding, state machines and scripting, for a rich animation experience in which the user can see they avatars changing in real time.
Still not done with the game, currently working on using Rive for all of the UI, plan to release it publicly once itās all done.
Hope You all like my entry for the Games with Rive Challenge.
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Dave
Gosh I love this so much not your regular poster
Our Studio DSPOT has been working very closely with @YERANDY | DSpot (our main Rive Engineer) over the last few weeks to complete an ambitious game from scratch in Rive.
Crazy what you can achieve with Rive Scripting + Agent.
Take a look at the walkthrough video š š
*Expect also a short interview with all the tech part behind the project, soon in another post.
bruh chill, can you try to post something 'average' once in a while. Incredible š„
I built a small game for designers called TapTrap.
Itās inspired by those old school āTricky IQ Testā games, but redesigned for people who obsess over alignment and argue about hex codes for fun.
I actually started building it before scripting was available in Rive, so most of the timers were powered by events and some pretty tangled state machines. When scripting finally came out, it helped me clean things up and make the whole thing work the way I had imagined.
It still needs some polishing and love, but I just could not keep this hidden any longer.
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