The scary part wasn’t the

The scary part wasn’t the monster.

It was making the interface feel like it was watching back. 👀

After exploring the concept, I started turning that idea into a real interactive experience with Rive.

I built CursedOS — a cursed SaaS infrastructure dashboard where everything looks like a normal monitoring system… until the numbers, alerts, and interface start behaving very differently.

The technical side was just as important as the visual concept:

→ Rive CLI + RML for the interface structure → Rive state machine for interactive animation → GPU Canvas for rendering → WGSL shader for the glitch / CRT distortion effect → Custom UI animation and motion states → A deliberately controlled “system failure” aesthetic

The result is a dashboard that doesn't just look haunted.

It feels like something is happening behind the interface.

That was the fun part of this challenge: combining frontend engineering, motion, shaders, interaction design, and visual storytelling into one experience.

Built for the Rive Halloween Challenge. 🎃

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