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Autumn Arsonist 100 Points

Destroy 25 pumpkins with flame attack

Delegator 50 Points

Cats destroy 25 vines

Gourd Hoarder 25 Points

Gather 15 pumpkins in one round

RUDE!! 5 Points

Skip entire dialogue

See You Next Fall 25 Points

Trip 7 times

Stack O' Lantern 10 Points

Carry 5 Pumpkins at once

Smashing Pumpkins 10 Points

Trip while carrying the maximum amount of pumpkins

You Monster 50 Points

How could you.

Bad Summon 5 Points

Planting takes time

Victory 100 Points

Win the pumpkin competition

Author Comments

~15m game made for Mobile Jam 22, might take a while to load but should run smoothly afterwards.

Programming, level design and Tutorial Story by Rickropes

Art and Main Campaign Story by Skoops

Music and Sound by Maldivir Dragonwitch


After a summoning spell goes VERY WRONG, the Pumpkin God requires offerings.

And he's giving YOU pumpkins.

A lot of them.

Too much even.

Do you best to control the pumpkin infestation and survive a demon god.


Controls

  • Tap to move text more quickly
  • Tap to interact with nearby objects (and cats)
  • Drag to move Waha (the witch)
  • Use special cooldown abilities "Cut" and "Fire" to clear vines and pumpkins anywhere on the map


GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR PUMPKIN PICKING


To make your cursed servitude to the pumpkin god as pleasant as possible, be sure to keep the following in mind:


Be sure to start your movement commands on Waha the witch! She’s not a very smart witch, so if you don’t tap her, she won’t know you’re giving her directions.

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To get help from your cats, Jojo and Wukong, walk up to them, tap them, drag Waha into the position you wish to place them, then tap her again to drop the cat. Jojo and Wukong will help keep the vines at bay for a little while, but they’re not very loyal. As soon as they get tired, they’ll return to the top of the screen and take a nap.

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Did you know you can stack pumpkins? Take a look at the bottom left hand corner of the screen; there, you’ll see how many pumpkins you can stack each level. Be sure to check! The amount you can carry will vary from stage to stage.

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Be careful of growing vines! Waha can walk over small vines, but if she gets too close to the bigger ones, she may trip and fall! If you’re carrying any pumpkins while falling, too bad! You broke em.

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And with that, you should be good to go! Good luck out there.

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OMG!! I loved this so much! So cute and fun. I wish there was more!!! Its a bit tedious on the computer, but it looks like it haves a phone format! If on phone, it would be much easier without having to drag the spells to the field. I loved the art style and the music. SUPER good! If your are reading this, TRY IT!!

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I tripped close to the edge and got stuck off the playing area :(

This game is appropriate for me since I'm helping some old folks with their farm right now

Fun and cute, and I really love the character designs and presentation.
Hot dang that title music starts the game off with a bang! 90s anime opening vibes.

Very cute and charming game, but ultimately was a bit too stiff, frustrating and repetitive to really have fun with.

As said, I love the presentation of the game with its wonderfully cute art and the story is very goofy and comedic to read with a great range of expressions (though maybe a bit too wordy for my liking, but perhaps I'm just an impatient sod). I also found it impressive that the game, considering it was built for a mobile jam, since had PC controls and effects, like buttons that react when you hover over them. Gameplay was alright in that it was going for an interesting bit of manic fun where you stave off a flood of ever-encroaching pumpkins, so it felt good to try and get faster and faster at making good and efficient quick decisions.

However, the controls really killed it for me: I just couldn't get the controls to be fluid for me and was constantly frustrated. It just demanded so much precision to move and drop things: so many ignored inputs because I didn't tap on the exact perfect pixel it wanted me to, or because I was 1cm away from being considered close enough to an object to pick it up, and so on and so forth. To add insult to injury, even when I'd put in a movement control the way I want, the game would constantly be tripping me up with vines that seemed very inconsistent when they'd trip or not: just so annoying! Even when I tried to switch over to a mobile to have the intended experience I still had a lot of difficulty controlling it: maybe even more than on PC, actually.

Even moving on from the controls, however, the levels were pretty monotonous and didn't change things up. Every level felt like pretty much the same thing and it never introduced a new type of obstacle or challenge: the only thing it did change was the number of pumpkins you could carry for some bizarre reason. Didn't help that the game didn't do a great job at explaining the mechanics either: I didn't even realize you could carry multiple pumpkins, and what was this new fire spell we got, and so on and so forth.

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Aug 14, 2022
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