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Hello everyone,
Smash Chess is back — my approach to the #GamesWithRive challenge.
What's scripted:
- Full chess rules engine (legal moves, check/checkmate, castling, en passant, pawn promotion)
- Board, pieces, highlights — all drawn via Node scripts
- Breathing aura with contour-following particles on selected pieces
- Knockout effect on captures — pieces launch off-screen with spin, speed lines, and impact flash
- 7 flower gift drops: Vortex, Promotion, Demotion, Shield, Freeze, Teleport, Clone — the King stays unbothered
- KO victory via health bars — lose it all, you're out
- A pruned AI doing its best to keep up with our augmented rules
- SFX via script-fired triggers wired to audio timelines
Pure script chaos available here : Smash Chess
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I have been completing the Chess game made entirely in Rive over the last few weeks, running against the clock with the support of my Studio DSpot. A lot of fun and excited to share the results.
We use:
-Rive Agent for an initial baseline scripting and effect supports
-Scripting custom code for the most complex game logics
-Autolayouts and Components for the UI
..and moreee!!
Sharing a fast preview video here and a playable link:
@JAVIER | DSpot , our lead designer, will share a more complete walkthrough soon!
Also, a short interview about the process is coming!
Stay tune!
My entry for the Games with Rive challenge, finally! I was super happy to put my game dev skills to use.
⚔️ Battle Stride — a card-based dungeon crawler where you lay down path cards to guide a soldier through procedurally generated dungeons, battle enemies, and collect relics.
I used Rive's state machines to drive all the character and card animations, data binding to keep the HUD in sync with game state, and listeners for interactive hover and click effects on the cards.
All the art—characters, cards, tiles, and relics—was hand-drawn and animated in Rive's editor using vector shapes, then exported as lightweight files for the web.
Audio events in the state machine handle combat and pickup sounds. The whole thing runs in the browser with lightweight vector exports.
🕹️ Play it here: https://battle-stride.netlify.app/
This is a shameless re-submission, as I already submitted this whack-a-mole mini game for the Rive data binding challenge. But since this one is specifically about games I thought: 'what the heck, why not?'
🔨Play Many Moles here 🔨
https://rive.app/s/JVEp5tm23E2tVDmUSMUlsA/?runtime=rive-renderer&multitouch=true
No scripting in this one (yet).
Hopefully I can build something new for the next challenge :-]
Thanks for playing!
😄 character design and animation is solid, well executed
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