DiscoverEggplant: The Secret Lives of Games148: Carving Out Some Time with Adam Robinson-Yu (Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival)
148: Carving Out Some Time with Adam Robinson-Yu (Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival)

148: Carving Out Some Time with Adam Robinson-Yu (Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival)

Update: 2025-10-24
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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


https://eggplant.show/ 

https://discord.gg/eggplant 

https://www.patreon.com/eggplantshow 

https://www.youtube.com/eggplantshow 

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148: Carving Out Some Time with Adam Robinson-Yu (Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival)

148: Carving Out Some Time with Adam Robinson-Yu (Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival)