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The Rive blog features tactical insights for interactive product creators and animation professionals.

the Brilliant team

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Brilliant builds its math and coding tutor Koji with Rive

Brilliant is an interactive learning platform used by millions of people to develop math and coding skills through hands-on problem solving. A guest blog post from Brilliant.

Guido Rosso

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How Strava Brought Year in Sport In-House and Built It with Rive

Strava brought Year in Sport in-house and built it entirely in Rive, delivering personalized animated recaps to 5.87M athletes across 14 languages.

Guido Rosso

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How BUCK Built LinkedIn's First Year in Review, Entirely in Rive

BUCK partnered with LinkedIn to create their first-ever Year in Review, a data-driven, personalized experience built entirely in Rive, supporting 207,360 possible user journeys across three languages.

Valerie Veteto

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Building indie game Pay 2 Win with Rive and Unity

What a self-serve team learned in production.

Lance Snider

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How to use the AI Coding Agent for real scripting

Great news: you don’t have to be a developer.

Valerie Veteto

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Spotify used Rive for Spotify Wrapped 2025

The technical pattern behind Wrapped experiences: design ships the interaction in Rive, and code drives it with data.

Valerie Veteto

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Megadeth’s lore made interactive with Rive

Inside Megadeth Digital's Easter egg-packed map, and what you can learn from it.

Helena Swahn

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The broadcast graphic that raises millions

140 hours of live charity streaming. Millions of viewers. One on-screen graphic that can’t fail even for a second.

Meleah Maynard

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How Blu Studios built a hit mobile game with 600k+ downloads

Behind the scenes of Magic Sort: Interactive Rive animations, modular design, and a 43% Day 1 retention rate.

Helena Swahn

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How CARS24 revved up interactions and engagements

CARS24 saved time with their in-app launch and design-to-development handoff.

Helena Swahn

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How an Indonesian payment app cut dev time in half

Kredivo launched its first in-app game campaign in just eight weeks.

Mayte CG

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A designer's guide to optimizing Rive files and workflows

Learn how to streamline your Rive projects from a Rive Ambassador.

Valerie Veteto

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Building a kooky, ADHD-friendly productivity app

Designer Nolan Perkins used Rive to create a system that's more like a game and less like a guilt machine

Valerie Veteto

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A DIY collective rewrites the rules of music promotion

Tamango traded templates for interactivity by building an handcrafted, scroll-driven music video experience.

Helena Swahn

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How Blynk built a branded kiosk game for airports

Designers took full control of gameplay, logic, and visuals delivering 3,500+ interactions across UK airports in just three weeks.

Valerie Veteto

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Duolingo’s AI-powered Video Call brings Lily to life

How Duolingo turned its most unimpressed character into an AI-powered conversation partner with Rive.

Valerie Veteto

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Wicked Saints turns players into heroes with Rive and Unity

Empowering players to change the world one interaction at a time.

Valerie Veteto

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Melodics reinvents music learning with interactive design

How Rive helps Melodics turn practice into play with animations that sync to every beat.

Valerie Veteto

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The Economist's interactive storytelling grabs readers

HLabs used Rive to create high-impact animations for The Economist’s IBM campaign.

Helena Swahn

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Pencil Park impresses with interactive proposals

How a small digital agency stands out from bigger competition in the pitch process.

Valerie Veteto

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How Rive is powering a life-size Stargate replica

A sci-fi dream come true, this full-scale Stargate is set to spin, glow, and engage fans in a fully interactive experience.

Valerie Veteto

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Dropbox launches interactive brand guidelines site using Rive

An inside look at how Dropbox’s Brand Studio and Daybreak Studio combined storytelling, design, and technology.

Meleah Maynard

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Manchester City, a Web3D game built with Hiber3D and Rive

How Hiber uses Rive to optimize its powerful game engine and reimagine how browser-based games are made.

Valerie Veteto

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Year Wrapped: How you spent your time and what it says about you

Hero Assistant’s Year Wrapped gives fun insights based on your calendars. Animations powered by Rive.

Valerie Veteto

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Animated yeti teaches refugee children and wins MIT Solve Award

Whimsical learning app Yeti Confetti Kids shows the power of play for refugee education. Powered by Rive.

Valerie Veteto

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Hero builds first daily super app with Rive

Hero used design-first thinking with a single, scrollable feed and voice control.

Valerie Veteto

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Pocketwatch Games leveled up Monaco 2’s UI with Rive

Fewer people, faster results — how Rive helped a small game studio achieve polished, interactive UI.

Valerie Veteto

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Intercom’s product animation evolution: embracing Rive

Transitioning from Lottie to Rive enhanced workflow, performance, and creativity.

Valerie Veteto

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Duolingo creates new role bridging designers and devs

How a murky phase in app development became a competitive new profession

Valerie Veteto

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Metafy mirrors the video game experience with Rive

"We want users to feel a little dopamine hit whenever they see the 'this is fine' flames moving."

Valerie Veteto

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Fluxverse gamifies SaaS marketing with interactivity

Interactive product demos push animation from passive to playful.

Valerie Veteto

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How Brilliant.org motivates learners with animations

Learn how an education company streamlined and customized their animation strategy using Rive.

Valerie Veteto

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How Age of Learning A/B tests upsell experiences with Rive

Rive brought the collaboration between design and engineering to a new level.

Guido Rosso

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Figma's new homepage is full of Rive animations

Figma launched a new website with interactive Rive animations.

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