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Happy Birthday Mini Game
How I Built a Bright, Clicky Birthday Game for Rise 360
I wanted to make a birthday interaction in Rise 360 that felt a little more playful than a standard celebration graphic, so I built a custom HTML block for a colleague's birthday.
It started as a colorful animated birthday screen with balloons, confetti, and a cake. Cute? Yes. But then I thought… what if it felt more like a mini game?
So I turned it into a fast little “birthday grab” activity where goodies fall from the top of the screen and learners click them before time runs out. I added a score, timer, party meter, different fall speeds, and a win screen to make it feel more arcade-like.
Cupcakes drift slowly, stars zip by faster, and the whole thing is packed with bright colors and motion.
One of the biggest lessons was keeping the code simple enough to behave nicely inside a Rise 360 embed. Once we switched to a cleaner JavaScript approach for the falling items, everything clicked into place.
It was a fun reminder that even a small custom block can add a lot of personality to a course. Sometimes a birthday shoutout can also be a mini interactive experience.
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Nicely done!
