Found-Footage Horror Scene Built with Rive CLI and GPU CanvasFound-Footage Horror Scene Built with Rive CLI and GPU Canvas
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CHANNEL 13 📺👁️ A found-footage horror scene you play through smart glasses.
You open a moldy fridge full of roaches, grab a warm beer, sink into a ruined couch and turn on an old CRT. Every zap, something hooded and faceless gets a little closer in the static. On channel 13 it rushes the glass… and then it comes out. 🎧 Sound on.
How I built it: • Rive CLI: the whole scene is written in RML with a coding agent (Claude Code), built and checked with rive --verify / inspect / screenshot, then pushed to the Rive editor • GPU Canvas (WGSL): two shaders. A smart-glasses lens pass over the whole frame (fisheye, chromatic split, low-light grain, light-buzz flicker, digital glitch) and a cursed CRT shader (B/W analog snow, scanlines, rolling bar, vertical-hold slips, the figure bulging the glass, procedural spider-web cracks, power-off collapse) • Luau scripting: story timing and "dread" level, channels and subliminal flashes, flying glass shards • Data binding: one Story view model shared across artboards, a Broadcast view model driving the TV • State machines: beat timelines, roach and bulb loops, 13 channels, all sound cues • Audio: 22 sound effects, zero music. Fridge hum, buzzing bulb, roaches, footsteps, CRT whine, whispers, heartbeat, screamer, shattering glass
Uses both the CLI and GPU Canvas.
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Leo's avatar
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No music, just sound design? Love that. Room noise is way creepier than a score.
AXEL's avatar
yeah exactly i wanted you to feel really alone in that apartment, just the fridge and the tv. thanks man!
Aditi's avatar
OMG, This is so good.
AXEL's avatar
haha thank you so much, glad it got you!
Noel Dario's avatar
Found-footage horror through smart glasses is a wild format — love seeing experiential ideas that aren't just another landing page.
AXEL's avatar
thank you yeah i wanted it to feel like you're really there, not just watching. working on a second one right now
Sabrina's avatar
this is scary!
AXEL's avatar
Thank you 🙏
Sabrina's avatar
impressed!
TRUEFRAME logo
the faceless guy getting closer every channel flip is genuinely creepy lol
AXEL's avatar
Haha mission accomplished then 😈 thanks for the comment, more coming soon!"
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