Unleash Rive Scripting: Create a Smooth Mini Driving Game

Unleash Rive Scripting: Create a Smooth Mini Driving GameUnleash Rive Scripting: Create a Smooth Mini Driving Game

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Ashley Best

pro

• Feb 4

It's INSANE what @Rive scripting unlocks 😱🚗

I produced this mini driving game proof-of-concept for the Rive x @Contra HQ Scripting challenge in just a few days.

Browser-based, buttery smooth, only ~500 KB!

This latest version features:

• AI cars racing that stick to the track • Keyboard and/or mouse controls • Smart camera follow + shake on crash • Checkpoints & timed laps

What began as a quick experiment to test Rive's scripting capabilities is now dangerously close to a full game engine 🤯

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Simply7 Studio

pro

• Feb 5

What was the prompting like

Ashley Best

pro

• Feb 5

For the most part it was fun! But frustrating at times! I learned to just keep things simple, just small incremental improvements and additions. The Rive agent is incredible, especially when resolving bugs. But I used a number of tools. I even used Chat GPT to improve my prompts...

Adonis Demetriou

• Feb 4

umm, what framework do u use? for developing this?

Ashley Best

pro

• Feb 4

All done inside of Rive! @Rive Design, code, and animate in one collaborative editor — then ship anywhere. Build apps, games, websites, vehicle interfaces, and more.

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Rishi Bajpai

• Feb 4

This is amazing! How much time did it take you?

Ashley Best

pro

• Feb 4

Thanks Rishi. I think the initial concept took a couple of days, then I've spent a couple more days in between other work adding features!

oxkim — onc

• Feb 9

damn, this is rlly good

Vezubuhle Khumalo

pro

• Mar 7

l cant believe it💯 💯 🔥

Ashley Best

pro

• Apr 30

Cursor Camp, A Real-Time Multiplayer World, Built with Rive

Cursor Camp is a live multiplayer playground where up to 1000 real cursors from around the globe share the same space simultaneously. A beach, lazy river, clubhouse, campfire, soccer pitch, cave, treehouse and more, brought to life through over 40 Rive-powered interactions and animations spanning environments, characters, objects, and interactions.

My role was building the entire Rive layer. Starting from the illustrator’s artwork, I translated everything into interactive systems, rigging and animating scenes, characters, and objects while developing the state machines and behaviours that make the world feel dynamic and alive.

The real challenge was making it data-aware. Using ViewModel data binding and Luau scripting throughout, every animation responds to live runtime input, with cursors picking up objects, triggering states, and reacting to a constantly changing world.

That includes moments like players duetting on a piano in real time, progressively eating an entire cake with each click, adding sticks to a fire to increase its intensity, or dropping ingredients into a cauldron to dynamically change the colour of the broth.

The result is a Rive system ready to be wired into Neal Agarwal’s multiplayer backend, where WebSockets keep thousands of players in sync in real time. It hit the front page of Hacker News on day one, with people asking one question over and over:

How is this running in a browser?

That’s the impossible UI.

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Emrah OZBAY

• Apr 30

I like the art style and the all details of the game. Really good work.

Oleksandra Marchenko

pro

• Apr 30

Hey Contra 👋 I’m Alex, founder of a Hyperactive design agency we built ~80K followers on Dribbble, stayed Top Rated Plus on Upwork for 5 years, and got featured among Dribbble’s top product design agencies in 2025.

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Maybe someone remembers me from Contra’s challenge, where I won $3K that was the moment I fell in love with this platform.

I've set myself one goal: 𝟏,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫.

I’ll share what I do to grow here, what works, what doesn’t, and what other freelancers/studios can repeat. Smash that follow button if you want to take on this challenge with me. 𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝟏,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜? 👀 🐐+ 💬 = ❤️