Oct 24, 2025
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