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Night of the Living Rad
Once a year, the blood moon rises and Chad the Rad Zombie gets a night out but, nobody can know he's real. Hold the mouse to sneak, let go to freeze, and when a window lights up, strike a pose and hope the neighbors don't notice you. Three levels, 16 nosy neighbors, one race against sunrise.
How it came together:
• It started as a "find the hidden wonders" hunt. Midway through, I pivoted to sneak-and-freeze because the game made more sense.
• I cut the per-level timer. With random peeks because it felt unfair, so instead your total run time became the score.
• Luck-based fake-outs became blue TV flickers, so getting caught feels earned, not random.
• My initial build utilized keyboard controls however, the game was experiencing performance issues. So I iterated, condensed and applied logic. I baked the lighting into the art, trimmed heavy effects and moved the controls to the mouse so it plays smoothly on the web.
How it was built:
Art generated in Google Gemini in a '90s cartoon style, then hand-cut piece by piece in Photopea. Built by directing Claude Code in the Rive CLI, with WGSL shaders on the GPU Canvas rolling the fog and crackling static between scenes. Brought home in the Rive Editor.
Voice: ElevenLabs. Music and sound effects: Pixabay. Full credits live in the game file.
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GPU Canvas: the 3D world is a custom WGSL renderer with real-time lights, shadows, fog, bloom and volumetric light, all running inside a Rive file.
Rive Editor, by hand: the HUD, title, death and win cards are real artboards with state machines and data binding. I refined them by hand in the Editor, including recoloring and reframing the haunted portrait that hangs on the walls.
Play it: https://haunted-fps-nms8do.rive.to
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Haunted Hall
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Features used: Rive CLI and GPU Canvas.
Rive CLI: the whole game was built by describing it to my coding agent (Claude Code), which wrote the RML (scenes, state machines, view models and data binding) and the Luau scripts (stages, enemy waves, zombie, bat swarm, shotgun and reload logic), checked live in the rive . preview.
GPU Canvas: a WGSL atmosphere pass gives the cursed camcorder look: chromatic split, room-dependent light flicker, vignette, animated film grain, and glitch bands with a red wash when you get hit.
Rive Editor: final polish done by hand in the editor.
ROOM 6 is an original first-person psychological horror game set in an isolated roadside motel.
After arriving late at night, the player checks into Room 6. What begins as an ordinary overnight stay gradually becomes something far more unsettling.
Built during the Rive Halloween Challenge using Rive CLI and GPU Canvas, the project features a fully explorable real-time 3D environment, custom WGSL rendering, Luau scripting, data-driven interactions, interactive objects, environmental puzzles, and cinematic storytelling.
The project was developed with Claude Code under my creative direction. I designed the concept, story, environments, visual atmosphere and interactions, then refined the experience through references, iteration and hands-on playtesting.
ROOM 6 demonstrates how Rive CLI and GPU Canvas can be used to create an interactive 3D horror experience beyond traditional interface animation.
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Damn, a full-on horror game running in a browser, and it looks this good? Seriously impressive work. Best of luck with it!