Pumpkin by Midnight

Update 0.3.3 (bug fix): obstacles now have a clear outline, so they are easier to spot. Thanks for the feedback!

The clock is ticking. Your enchanted pumpkin carriage must reach the royal castle before midnight. Every quarter hour the spell flickers — PUFF! — and you roll on as a plain pumpkin until the magic returns. At the stroke of twelve the spell breaks for good.

And then there is Granny Rutabaga. Long before pumpkins, Halloween lanterns were carved from rutabagas — and she has not forgiven the pumpkin for stealing the spotlight. She flies over the road on her broom, throwing rutabagas, raining them from the sky, casting fog and wind… and on the last night she comes for you herself.

How to play — one button only (Space / click / tap). Hold to jump higher, tap again in the air to double jump.

Themes: PUMPKIN (the carriage that turns back into a pumpkin at midnight) + RUTABAGA (Granny Rutabaga — the original jack-o'-lantern — as the villain, her rutabaga attacks and the boss fight).

How AI was used: code by Claude Code, all art by Nano Banana 2 (Google AI Studio), texts and some sound effects with AI. Directed and play-tested by me.

Credits

• Music: “Waltz of the Ghosts” by Aureolus_Omicron — CC-BY 4.0 — https://opengameart.org/node/116638
• Music: “Lanterns in the Hollowed Forest” by Tsorthan Grove — CC0 — https://opengameart.org/node/181239
• Sound effects: Kenney.nl (CC0)
• Fonts: Baloo 2, M PLUS Rounded 1c (SIL OFL)

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