Cursor Camp, A Real-Time Multiplayer World, Built with Rive
Cursor Camp (https://neal.fun/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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I had the chance to work with the guys over at @onparproductions (https://www.instagram.com/onparproductions/) and had a lovely time with @sjrdop (https://www.instagram.com/sjrdop/) and the team bringing part of their TVC for NHS Wales to life.
A lot of fun working in the detail, on something that may seem fairly simple, but elevated by the level of focus on the tiny elements that make it that bit more believable. Loved the challenge, and the trust to make this happen.
More of this please 🙏
Check out the full ad over at On Par 🎞️
Hit me up for anything VFX & Motion!
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