{"podcast":{"title":"The Secret Lives of Games","slug":"the-secret-lives-of-games-439116","podcast_index_feed_id":439116,"rss_url":"https://thespelunkyshowlike.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://secretlives.games","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/0/a/a/3/0aa3620161cba7ac16c3140a3186d450/TSLOG_Hero.png","author":"Nick Suttner","episode_count":273,"summary":"Candid conversations with game creators that dive deep into the art, craft, and process of making games.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-secret-lives-of-games-439116"},"episode":{"title":"148: Carving Out Some Time with Adam Robinson-Yu (Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival)","slug":"148-carving-out-some-time-with-adam-robinson-yu-ghost-town-pumpkin-festival","published_at":"2025-10-24T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-secret-lives-of-games-439116/148-carving-out-some-time-with-adam-robinson-yu-ghost-town-pumpkin-festival","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-secret-lives-of-games-439116","url":"https://eggplant.show/148-carving-out-some-time-with-adam-robinson-yu-ghost-town-pumpkin-festival","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thespelunkyshowlike/Eggplant__Ghost_Town_Pumpkin_Festival_Episode.mp3?dest-id=790494","summary":"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","meta_description":"Laura, Rob, and Sarah chat with Adam Robinson-Yu about The Annual Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival, a communal and virtual festival experience hosted every ~Oc…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5309,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-secret-lives-of-games-439116/episodes/148-carving-out-some-time-with-adam-robinson-yu-ghost-town-pumpkin-festival/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-secret-lives-of-games-439116/148-carving-out-some-time-with-adam-robinson-yu-ghost-town-pumpkin-festival.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}