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

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Podcast: [The Secret Lives of Games](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-secret-lives-of-games-439116)
Published: 2025-10-24T13:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://eggplant.show/148-carving-out-some-time-with-adam-robinson-yu-ghost-town-pumpkin-festival
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## Resource

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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