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Building a 3D TikTok Live Game with React Three Fiber & Playroom

Overview

Live-streamed interactive games are a fantastic way to engage audiences in real time. Platforms like TikTok Live offer unique opportunities to connect with viewers through interactive mechanics, making the gaming experience more dynamic and engaging. In this tutorial, we’ll build a 3D multiplayer game where players interact with the game using TikTok Live comments, wrapping gifts, breaking presents, and defeating snowmen—all within a 60-second time limit.

Creating Interactive Games for Live Streams

Live streaming has evolved from passive watching to active engagement, where audiences can directly influence content in real time. Popular games like Jackbox and Use Your Words have successfully integrated real-time viewer participation, but incorporating these mechanics into custom-built 3D multiplayer games is still an emerging field.

This tutorial explores how to bridge the gap between live streaming and interactive gaming by creating a real-time TikTok Live game. Viewers will actively participate through TikTok comments, triggering in-game events such as:

  • Wrapping gifts by typing messages

  • Destroying gifts after three interactions

  • Sending hearts to eliminate snowmen

  • Sending TikTok gifts to wrap multiple presents at once

  • Competing in a live leaderboard that updates in real-time

Insights and Skills

Throughout this tutorial, you’ll gain hands-on experience with:

  • Setting up a multiplayer game engine

  • Rendering 3D assets with React Three Fiber

  • Generating game cards with AI tools

  • Implementing real-time interactions with Playroom

  • Designing an intuitive mobile-friendly UI

  • Adding streaming mode for live audience participation

By the end, you’ll have a fully functional game that you can modify, expand, or use as a foundation for your own game ideas.

Tech Stack

  • React Three Fiber

  • Playroom

  • Tailwind CSS

  • Mixamo

Experience the project in action and explore the final implementation

Resources

#threejs #developer #tiktoklivegame

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