"Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival was first created in the depths of the 2020 pandemic, when game developer Adam Robinson-Yu's real-life neighbourhood pumpkin festival was cancelled. (Yu also made the excellent and equally autumnal A Short Hike.) Since then, it has returned for a few weeks every year, letting players come together as adorable ghosts to explore a creepy little micro-world filled with player-created pumpkins."
"It has improved slightly every year: 2024's big addition was a haunted house escape room, which took me and my kids a good hour to figure out, and this year there's a movie theatre that plays eerie silent films for a roomful of nobody. Everywhere you go you see other players floating around in the form of classic sheet-ghosts with drawn-on faces and, sometimes, fetching hats. Pumpkins crowd every surface, from the benches outside the skeleton-filled barn to the corridors of the haunted house."
"The advantages of a virtual Halloween festival are many: you cannot get scammed out of 8 for a watery hot chocolate or cardboard-like chips from a food van, you can carve as many virtual pumpkins as you like and undo your mistakes if you mess it up, and it is not a problem if your six-year-old refuses to wear a coat."
Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival originated in 2020 when a neighbourhood pumpkin festival was cancelled and was created by game developer Adam Robinson-Yu. The festival returns annually for a few weeks, allowing players to appear as adorable sheet-ghosts and explore a small, spooky micro-world filled with player-created pumpkins. Recent additions include a haunted house escape room and a movie theatre that plays eerie silent films. Many pumpkins reflect gaming culture, with tributes to titles like Hollow Knight and Majora's Mask. The virtual format eliminates food scams, permits unlimited carving with undo, avoids bad weather, and includes hidden challenges such as a difficult hedge maze.
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