Of Pith and Pumpkins

Grow prize-winning pumpkins in a graveyard in this non-violent feel-good game!

As the pumpkin caretaker, your job is to wrangle stubborn glowing ghost orbs and summon them to your pumpkins to make them grow.

Watch out for evil spirits that are also attracted by your summons. Draw them away from your pumpkins.

Made in about 1 week for Darktober2017 and ElderberryJam. The game jams' themes are "ghost story" and "summoning" respectively.

There are only 4 levels in this version. More to come!

Controls

• Action | Control

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• Move | WASD or Arrow Keys

• Summon Nearby Orbs to yourself | Hold Spacebar

• Restart Level | R

• Skip Level | / (forward slash)

• Quit | Escape

Tip 1:

Evil orbs wander around more slowly on their own. Pull them to the far corners of the map to get them out of the way.

Tip 2:

You can push smaller lightweight pumpkins around the map.

Tip 3:

The closer you are to an orb, the stronger the attraction when summoning. Gently tap the spacebar to draw them closer.

Tip 4:

If bad orbs are too close to the good ones, just wait a few seconds without summoning and the good ones will disperse and spread out quickly.

Tools: Unity, Blender, Substance Painter, Audacity, Gimp

Third Party Attributions: Music: Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. Sound Effects: Sonniss.com GDC Game Audio Bundle. Font: Chinese Rocks by Typodermic Fonts. Ground/grass/moss textures: GameTexture.com

Version History:
1.0.2: Added missing DLL file to Windows build release. Fixed typo.
1.0.1: Added Escape to Quit on all levels.
1.0.0: Initial build

Tags: #halloween, #darktober17, #elderberryjam, #pumpkin, #nonviolent, #feelgood
#action