Pop-Up-Pumpkin

How it plays

The order book holds up to six customers, one button each, with a portrait and their sentence. Accepting is a commitment: the slots lock, the button reads "Order in progress", and only selling unlocks it again. Closing the book is not a cancel.

Summoning a pumpkin is a chain of random minigames charging one bar: hits fill it, misses drain it. The target is the sum of the drawn games' hits to win, and another batch is drawn if misses leave it short - so the summon can be slowed down but never failed.

Then you dress it. Eight slots, a 30-colour palette that tints each part, and sliders that nudge, turn and scale every piece. Selling opens the grade panel: the mood bars against what the customer could have hoped for, the size asked for versus given, the coins earned and the total.

Parts are bought with those coins in the shop, and ownership is remembered between sessions.

What makes it a game

• Nothing is shown while you build. No requirements panel and no live feedback - you read the sentence and take the risk.
• Every part scores -10 to 10 against six moods (Formal, Gothic, Romantic, Warm, Silly, Rustic), and a part that fights a mood subtracts. A negative only counts in a mood the order asked for, so choosing three things well beats piling everything on.
• Price is quality plus satisfaction, and coins never go below zero - a bad read pays nothing.

Made over one weekend for the Game Dev Linz x Cloudflight jam, whose themes were whimsy and repetition.