Why we are exploring Rive

My company (gameblazers.com) is a fantasy football platform that sells packs of items to use in lineups. This season we would like to make the items dynamic, as the rarity and other properties change week to week. We were running static image generation functions to update items but it is limiting and we ran into many issues. Rive seems like a great option because we can live swap team, color, position and other dynamic variable without relying on generating thousands of static images. Additionally, we would like to animate the items when performing certain actions such as boosting, contract extending or opening packs.

Requirements

• Dynamic items, that contain name, team, position and can be updated via the runtime

  • Item list can be up to several hundred items, we are concerned we will run into performance issues if we use Rive vs a static image

• Pack opening

  • Rive seems like a nice option to have an animated pack opening experience

  • Rive would need to

    • Load a variable number Rive assets into a scene (our items), since we would like have static images

    • Play different animations based on the Items rarity

I haven't dove too deep into Rive but I was able to get a simple working example of having a Rive asset with the ability to swap properties at runtime. My major concerns are performance if we load hundreds of Rive assets in a list, and being able to create a pack opening experience. Many of the examples I have seen in the community files are quite basic and don't have many variable inputs. If anyone has any thoughts on if this is a good option please let us know. Also if you are up to the task of working on this we are hiring :)