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Finally made the game I’d been dreaming of for so long. I stepped away from game dev after COVID, but the thought of coming back never really left. I just didn’t know when, or if I’d ever get the chance.
It’s only a demo for now, but I’m happy I finally brought it to life. After all these years, it feels good to pick up a dream I thought I’d left behind. Rive CLI made this possible. Joined #rivehalloweenchallenge and deliver this.
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🌕 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.
The table is haunted, so is the cue ball!
For the @Rive Halloween Challenge here on Contra, I've channeled my inner demons to create a spooky 8-ball pool game called 'Ghoul Table'. 🎱
It was built entirely in Rive using the new CLI, 3D objects, shaders, physics and more... and it ships as a .riv file under 10MB!
What crazy cue ball should I add to the game next? I'll implement the best suggestions!
Delivery vs Zombies is my entry for the Rive Halloween Challenge with Contra. 🧟🍕
A one-level runner set in Buenos Aires on a full-moon night: Matilda has to deliver a pizza through a city full of zombies, with werewolves howling from the rooftops and fog rolling in, for an app that never stops rushing her. At the end, the app prints your receipt, with deductions.
Made from scratch over nine days for this challenge:
Rive CLI: the whole file written in RML from the terminal with Claude Code. 291 commits, checking every change with headless screenshots and pushing back and forth with the Editor.
GPU Canvas: a custom WGSL shader for film grain, chromatic aberration and lens blur, tuned to hold 60 fps.
Scripting for the game loop and physics, Data Binding to dress every zombie at random, State Machines for characters and UI.
The agent was fast, but its art came out generic. So it blocked out the shapes, and I redrew, rigged and animated everything by hand in the Rive Editor, adapting Vero Beltrán's original characters so they read from far away. Matilda squashes on every landing, the zombie bite runs 52 frames, your scooter parts stay where you got caught, and the receipt prints line by line. The UI comes from a design system I built in Claude Design. Original chiptune music.
Playtested with friends until the jumps felt right. English and Spanish, effects and audio can be switched on and off while you play. Desktop only for now.
Let me know if you make the delivery on time. 😅