Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games 148: Carving Out Some Time with Adam Robinson-Yu (Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival)
Laura, Rob, and Sarah chat with Adam Robinson-Yu about The Annual Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival, a communal and virtual festival experience hosted every ~October for the last six years. We discuss the logistics of running a seasonal multiplayer game, encouraging emergent interactions through limited tools, highlighting pumpkin artistry, expressing embodiment in digital space, building secrets over time, and more!
NOTE: If you want to avoid spoilers of this year's additions to the game, skip the section from 1:12:40 to 1:22:00!
Audio edited by Dylan Shumway
Discussed in this episode:
Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival https://adamgryu.itch.io/pumpkin-carver
Laura E. Hall's 31 Days of Halloween newsletter https://buttondown.com/31daysofhalloween
Adam's Itch https://adamgryu.itch.io/
Adam's Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/adamgryu.bsky.social