Scripting in Rive for absolute beginners. Since the release of Rive Scripting with Luaua and AI Agent, a lot of people have asked for a programming tutorial for absolute beginners. This is it.

Build a game with Rive. Win $5K in prizes. Join the challenge on Contra contra.com/community/to...

Create a Path Effect script in Rive, catch the full tutorial on the Rive YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QaD...

How to use Rive in Unity 👾

Big congratulations to our Scripting Challenge winners on Contra 🏆 🥇 Isa Ganttus 🥈 Sajal Kumar 🥈 Fernanda Marques Check out the livestream via the link in comments 👇

Thanks to everyone who joined us at Rive HQ in SF last night 👋 Great convos, great people, and lots of Rive energy. Stay tuned for more Rive events coming soon 👀

Rive Community Drop-In ☕️ Meet @jeffamcavoy.bsky.social from the Rive team IRL. Bring your laptop, ask questions, get help, meet other Rive users. 📍 Discourse Coffee (Milwaukee) 🗓️ 2/9 · ⏰ 3–4:30 PM CST No RSVP needed — just drop in 👋 More info below👇

Last day to RSVP 🎉 Save your spot while you still can👇

New Apple runtime update (experimental): a Swift-first API with multi-threading support on Apple platforms for the first time, meaning better performance when rendering multiple heavy Rive files. You requested this update: we shipped.

How do you actually script with Rive’s AI Coding Agent? Rive's @lancesnider.bsky.social breaks it down with real examples + workflows. Link to blog in comments👇

Join us for a Discord AMA with Rive founders @guido.rive.app & @luigi.rive.app 🗓️ Tuesday 1/27 ⏰ 10am PT Bring your questions 👋

Indie-game Pay 2 Win was built with nearly 100 Rive Artboards — all running in Unity. Read their build story: rive.app/blog/buildin...

Rive Office Hours with our founders @guido.rive.app and @luigi.rive.app is coming up. Ask your questions live. 🔴 TODAY, Jan 21 @ 9:30am PT Streaming live on Twitter — other streams below 👇

🤝 Meet the Rive founders and the SF team at Rive HQ Join us 1/29/26, 6–8pm for a laid-back evening of Q&A, new feature sneak peeks, pizza, drinks, and great conversations with the Rive community. Free, limited spots — RSVP👇 eventbrite.com/e/rive-hq-me...

Thanks to everyone who shared their Puzzle solves 🧩 Here’s the official solution walkthrough from the Rive team ▶️: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg9p...

Scripting isn’t just for engineers. @guido.rive.app and @luigi.rive.app sit down with @schoolofmotion.bsky.social to explain how designers—and whole product teams—can use Scripting to build better interactive experiences ▶️

We're hosting the first Rive Office Hours with our founders — and we want your questions. Curious about Rive’s future, scripting, AI, product tradeoffs, or lessons learned? Reply with your question here 👇 or ask live at the event. 🔴 Live on YouTube: Jan 21 @ 9:30 am PT

Rive for Unity is now live in the Unity Asset Store. With it, you can build: 1️⃣ Production-ready UI: responsive layouts, localized animated text, data binding, lists, virtualized scrolling 2️⃣ 2D games: skeletal animation, mesh deformations, inverse kinematics, raster + vector

Rive Scripting is here—and we’re kicking it off with a Contra challenge 🧠⚡️ - Top 3 entries split $5K - Guest judges: Michelle Higa Fox of Buck and Ken Martin of Google Read the guidelines and register: contra.com/community/to... Learn more about Scripting: rive.app/blog/scripti...

The AI Coding Agent is in the Rive Editor! ❓Ask questions, generate Luau, get examples while you build with Scripting. 💸 Included on all paid plans & billed via AI credits ($1 USD = $1 AI credits). 🚀 Monthly credits per seat: Cadet $5, Voyager $16, Enterprise $40. FAQ: rive.app/blog/rive-ai...

React Native runtime v0.1.5 is out! ✅ Data Binding Lists, Images, Artboards, and all properties 📖 Scripting support 🪆 Nested ViewModel access (viewModel, replaceViewModel) 🛠 useRiveProperty now reads the initial value correctly Migration: rive.app/docs/runtime... New users: rive.app/docs/runtime...

Can you solve the first Rive puzzle?

Scripting is live in Rive. ✨ This is the creative freedom Flash gave designers and developers working together — rebuilt for modern platforms, without the plugin. And because Rive’s runtime and format are open-source, it's not going anywhere.

The iOS Coffee Break newsletter is kicking off a 4-part deep dive into using Rive on iOS. Subscribe at www.ioscoffeebreak.com

Wrapped-style recaps look like marketing, but they behave like product UI: localization, device constraints, last-minute changes, real data. Read how Spotify approached it in Rive: rive.app/blog/spotify...

If you’re on the legacy Android runtime, the new runtime is the recommended path forward. OpenGL for now → Vulkan support is next. We’ll call it out the moment it lands. Get started: rive.app/docs/runtime...

🚀 Rive for Android (Compose) is now in beta This is a full rewrite of the Android runtime built to reduce crash-class threading issues — and provide us with a runtime architecture we can keep extending.

Learning Rive for the first time? We’ve got a new Get Started tutorial to help you hit the ground running. Watch here👇 youtube.com/watch?v=wnwA...

New! Rive Puzzles 🧩 A monthly mini-build to sharpen your interactive motion skills fast. Remix the Puzzle, solve it, and share your solution (tag Rive!). Official solution coming next week 👀 rive.app/community/fi...

Just a glimpse of what you can do with Vector Feathering in Rive⚡️🪶 It's an infinitely scalable and hyper-performant way to create glows, shadows, blurs, and lighting effects for any platform

Rive x Contra Community Spotlight 🚀 Today we’re sharing this beautifully illustrated mini game packed with motion details and powered by Data Binding ⚡️💀⚔️ By Junior Fonseca, DSpotTeam, Yerandy Alfonso

Rive x Contra Community Spotlight 🚀 Today we're sharing this wonderful Cat Night Mini Game by @mysteropodes.bsky.social featuring: 😺✨ delightful animation and gaming experience powered by Data Binding 🐭🧀 responsive Layouts to adapt to any screen size

Rive x Contra Community Spotlight 🚀 We love this "The Battle of Aérion IX" interactive HUD concept 👾⚔️ It’s full of snappy motion, clever mixing of vector + raster artwork, and kick-ass sound design. Made with Rive - by Léo Parpeix

Rive x Contra Community Spotlight 🚀 We love this Primal Skillset game UI, featuring loads of Data Binding for: - scalable lists - character cards - progress bars and stats - and connected to the gyroscope on a mobile device By Weronika Nagorska-Wollejszo 🐵🐺

Rive 🤝 Contra

Learn more Data Binding skills with a bite-sized build that teaches Lists, booleans, and number-to-list conversion. By @maytecg.bsky.social: rive.app/blog/getting...

Rive x Contra Community Spotlight 🚀 Today we're sharing this audio-reactive game controlled by a player’s face, featuring: ➡️ mesh tracking ➡️ moving objects via face position ➡️ physics simulation ➡️ collision detection Made w/ Rive by the talented Felege Gebru

We shipped the Help Tool today! Get quick feature definitions by hovering over UI and pressing "H"

New Rive tutorial! Learn how to create a scalable card menu step-by-step with @jctoon.bsky.social 📱

Just a glimpse of what designers and devs can do with dynamic, responsive, fully animatable text in Rive ⚡️⚔️

Did you know we recently added a new user action called Pointer Drag? Check out some fun examples by @laurive.bsky.social ⚡️✨

Learn how to build a festive, data-driven spinning loader in Rive complete with bouncing ornaments and hover states🎄 rive.app/blog/build-a...

"Big up to the Rive team. We had the chance to work closely with them, and their passion really shines through. Rive rocks, and I highly recommend giving it a try on your projects." - Thomas Guerin 7omtech.fr/2025/12/mowg...

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We’ve graduated Rive Flutter 0.14.0 to a stable release 🎉 Thanks for all the feedback so far. See what’s new and how to migrate: rive.app/docs/runtime...

Rive Challenge winners drop tomorrow at 1:30pm EST / 10:30am PST! Catch the announcement and learn more about the winning projects on the Contra livestream 🏆 Register here: luma.com/z1o7rpll

Smoke particle effects that react to wind value💨 Built with Scripting in Rive by @lancesnider.bsky.social

If your team still leans on Lotties, start here. We explain how to migrate safely, why imports are Enterprise-only now, and how to build cleaner, interactive systems in Rive → rive.app/blog/why-imp...

Thanks to all who participated in the Rive Challenge. Here are some final subs we really loved. Winners will be announced next Tuesday, Dec. 9 at 10:30am PT/1:30pm ET 🏆

The Rive x Contra feed is on 🔥 right now. Got something cooking? You still have about 14 hours to turn it into a finished submission and get it in front of the judges. Go!