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Seance at Hollow Manor is a haunted landing page you play like a Ouija board. The cursor is the planchette: hold it on YES to begin, and a spirit you can't see tugs your hand toward the letters of its name, harder the closer you get. Spell it and the ghost is freed and the door unlocks. Confirm wrong letters and its anger rises: the light closes in, the fog turns red, and at full anger the screen tears.
Features used: Rive CLI and GPU Canvas, plus Scripting, Data Binding and State Machines.
- Rive CLI + RML: the whole scene (layout, board, planchette, ghost, view model, state machine) is RML, written with a coding agent and checked with rive --verify, rive inspect, headless screenshots and scripted pointer replays (--pointer, --data-dump).
- GPU Canvas (WGSL): one full-screen shader draws domain-warped fog, a flickering candle pool that follows the planchette, a vignette that closes in with anger, and a CRT tear and glitch when you lose.
- Scripting (Luau): the seance rules (dwell to confirm a letter, the hot-and-cold tug, anger, win and lose) and the sound cues.
- Data Binding: a view model drives the planchette, dwell ring, spirit text, spelled word, anger meter, ghost and the button.
- State Machines: the cursed button's rest, hover and press states with pointer listeners, plus an idle layer for the ghost (sway, blink).
- Art and motion: refined through the CLI by my coding agent, directed by me. I did not hand-edit the file in the Rive Editor.
- Sound: music is AI-generated; effects are synthesised. Fonts: Creepster and IM Fell English (SIL Open Font License).
Play it (click once for sound): https://seance-at-hollow-manor-tkqred.rive.to
Video: https://youtu.be/wY_0swOTQ6w
LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ahmedrohan_rivehalloweenchallenge-rive-share-7511856916734644226-JS8j
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Play it: https://haunted-fps-nms8do.rive.to
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Play: monstermash.andjroo.com
