{"id":20645,"date":"2025-10-28T14:37:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/i-tried-out-a-virtual-halloween-festival-and-got-more-than-i-bargained-for\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:37:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:37:26","slug":"i-tried-out-a-virtual-halloween-festival-and-got-more-than-i-bargained-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/i-tried-out-a-virtual-halloween-festival-and-got-more-than-i-bargained-for\/","title":{"rendered":"I tried out a virtual Halloween festival \u2013 and got more than I bargained for"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival began as a lockdown project and has now become an annual gaming tradition. My children and I paid it a visit<\/p>\n

In an attempt to avoid spending \u00a380 to walk around a local park with my children to see some underwhelming spooky decorations, and having failed for the fifth year in a row to secure a ticket to a Scottish farm to tramp damply around looking at pumpkins, I tried something different with my kids this Halloween: a virtual pumpkin festival.<\/p>\n

Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival<\/a> was first created in the depths of the 2020 pandemic, when game developer Adam Robinson-Yu\u2019s real-life neighbourhood pumpkin festival was cancelled. (Yu also made the excellent and equally autumnal A Short Hike<\/a>.) Since then, it has returned for a few weeks every year, letting players come together as adorable ghosts to explore a creepy little micro-world filled with player-created pumpkins. It has improved slightly every year: 2024\u2019s big addition was a haunted house escape room, which took me and my kids a good hour to figure out, and this year there\u2019s a movie theatre that plays eerie silent films for a roomful of nobody.<\/p>\n

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\nGhost Town Pumpkin Festival began as a lockdown project and has now become an annual gaming tradition. My children and I paid it a visit
\nIn an attempt to avoid spending \u00a380 to walk around a local park with my children to see some underwhelming spooky decorations, and having failed for the fifth year in a row to secure a ticket to a Scottish farm to tramp damply around looking at pumpkins, I tried something different with my kids this Halloween: a virtual pumpkin festival.
\nGhost Town Pumpkin Festival was first created in the depths of the 2020 pandemic, when game developer Adam Robinson-Yu\u2019s real-life neighbourhood pumpkin festival was cancelled. (Yu also made the excellent and equally autumnal A Short Hike.) Since then, it has returned for a few weeks every year, letting players come together as adorable ghosts to explore a creepy little micro-world filled with player-created pumpkins. It has improved slightly every year: 2024\u2019s big addition was a haunted house escape room, which took me and my kids a good hour to figure out, and this year there\u2019s a movie theatre that plays eerie silent films for a roomful of nobody. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival began as a lockdown project and has now become an annual gaming tradition. My children and I paid it a visit In an attempt to avoid spending \u00a380 to walk around a local park with my children to see some underwhelming spooky decorations, and having failed for the fifth year in …<\/p>\n

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