PUMPKIN MOONSHINE
This was originally an entry for the saltWorld Jam.
 
You play as a total square who must gather fantastic ingredients to make pumpkin moonshine.  The catch is that all of the ingredients are in a volcano.
 
Features:
-bats.
-zombies.
-squares.
-procedurally generated everything.
-beer cans.
-joystick support.
 
DOWNLOAD HERE: http://nurseostsaudy.itch.io/pumpkin-moonshine
(PLEASE NOTE: in the package you receive two versions... the up to date less buggy version, and the version I entered to the swJam before the deadline.)
 
 
SCREENS:





 
 
 
HOW TO MAKE A PERFECT MOONSHINE:
 
-Collect ALL pumpkins.  There is only 1 per cave section.
-Don't collect things like worms, beer cans, tires, or skeleton parts!
-Collect all three special ingredients including GHOST JUICE, THE CHESTS HEAD, AND THE FIRE BLOOM (can you find them?)
-Don't drown/burn in the lava.
 
 
KNOWN BUGS:
-rare collision failures.
-rare level generation failures.
-bats get stuck in walls.
-floating spikes.
-rare levels generated without a way to go back.
-floating ground at the top of the volcano.
-Anymore?  help me out.
 
 
POST YOUR BEST MOONSHINE RATINGS! (my best was something like a 72 percent once.  I forget/game is hard.)
 
 
 
FUTURE PLANS:
-to make alot more Special Ingredients (like 6 more).
-to create the moonshine party cinematics
-to create more levels (different gimmicks like diving in water, or being chased through landscape by birds, idunno.  different randomly generated landscapes, you know?)
-to have fuuuuuun makin this.

haha there's nothing in the download page except text and 2 pictures!  I think you might have prematurely saved the page before your new file was uploaded

holy crimbus, i'm embarrassed.
 
fixed!

I only know about that kinda thing because I made the same mistake, haha!  Do not sweat it
 
Now I have played newest version!  It was good decision to make opening cutscene skippable, given how easy it is for greed/hubris to make you take the big orange drink ...
 
I am in love with the background music, the chorus of "muh" is so moody, it definitely gives the experience sort of a spooky, dreamlike quality.  It really feels like spelunkin in haunted cave... natural place for the best pumpkins to harvest. On the note of sounds and pumpkins, the chimey bit that accompanies the unearthing of gourds is very rewarding
 
An occasional frustration was that the bomby dudes would sometimes break away the limited points of passage upwards, basically meaning that all that is left for our square protagonist is to wait for the rising magma to end its horrible entrapment.  this happened on the one run where I got a ghost juice, so that was a bit of a bummer
 
I think you did a good job on the spritework especially for the pick-em-ups, though I will say that I thought the old beers were some kind of shrunken cyclops heads or other similar diabolical magical idol
 
overall, this project is a real charmer, and I'm glad you found your way to saltw to show it off. 
 
rating: 9 pumpkins, 2 skulls, a bone, and a pretty flower
 
oh, and my max percentage was 72ish, this was in a run where I was lucky enough to get a chest-head

Thanks for the review, buddy!
 

It was good decision to make opening cutscene skippable, given how easy it is for greed/hubris to make you take the big orange drink ...

I definitely was hoping this game would come out as a struggle to balance greed and safety.  Glad that is coming through!
 
 
 

bomby dudes would sometimes break away the limited points of passage upwards

 
Yeah, this is one thing that I am not happy with as far as design goes.  I'll have to think on it for a solution...  maybe ropes or something you can find in graves.  Great job with the ghost juice though!  Definitely the hardest special ingredient to get.
 

 old beers were some kind of shrunken cyclop

 
Yeah i feel that too.  I'll have to rework that when I get a chance.
 
 
Thanks for the review, Neuro!

I've thought on it a bit and I've decided I'm gonna vote on your project once I figure out how. Very fun game. Though I'm not sure how I'm expected to avoid the bad ingredients. :P

I also vote the mannequin nurse for pumpkin queen 2013

FIRST OFF whoa thanks for all the vote pledgings.  BUT i must be honest, this is an updated version since what I handed in for the SWJam.  That version didn't have the ghost or ghost juice mechanic completed and it also had a few more bugs.  I guess what I'll do is when I get home I'll re-upload that version and keep a link to it up on this dev page, just so swjammers can judge me on that.  Def not trying to cheat anyone here.
 
 
Also:
 
Warpped:  I have a plan for the "bad" ingerdients in the future... as it will turn out, they aren't bad exactly.. simply an acquired taste...
 
Bonzi: thanks for the music compliment!  my gf and i created that at about 4am - probably an hour before I officially submitted it for sw jam.  I do want to get the song looping a bit better.  And yeah layering towards the end of the cave is a great idea!  Might just have to work that in...   Anyway, I'll pass your compliment along to her!

Uploaded the official SWJam version.  It is now included along with the up to date version in all downloads.  COOL

updated new version.. features SWINGY ROPES AND PARTIES.