Piga's Pumpkin Carving

From Pigasoftware

Piga's Pumpkin Carving is a small program in which the user can carve a virtual Halloween Jack-O-Lantern written by Graham L. Wilson. It was first built for Microsoft Windows in Game Maker 6.1, and that version is to be eventually released as part of the Piga Windows Entertainment Pack. Development of a GNU/Linux port began on October 27, 2008 and it was released on October 31, 2008 (Halloween).

The program starts with a bare pumpkin, that the player may add six different drawing object onto, and design their own Jack-O-Lanterns. The background music track is a shortened version of Bjørn Arild Lynne's "The Spooky Pumpkin Head", used under permission. The music editing and conversion to Ogg Vorbis was done by Malcolm Wilson Multimedia.

Due to a rush to meet the Halloween 2008 release date, the program was limited in its first version. The program was and is released under the GNU General Public License version 3. PigaVision was released on the same day as the first release of Piga's Pumpkin Carving.

Development of version 1.5 began on October 27, 2009, a day after the first Source Release of Lamp Refugee was released. This included various tweaks and several new features such as multiple pumpkins, improved graphics, the ability to add custom objects and use custom pumpkin graphics, and sound effects (most edited from Absolute Sound Effects Archive). It was released on October 31, 2009.

Contents 1 Initial Forum Announcements 2 Objects 3 Reception 4 Credits 5 Download

Initial Forum Announcements

"Today, Halloween 2008 (October 31), I released a Halloween themed amusement game: Piga's Pumpkin Carving for GNU/Linux (written in GAMBAS 1.0.19). The game allows players to carve their own virtual Jack-O-Lanterns, by placing down a variety of objects. Now, I did have a little bit of a rushed dead line to make it by Halloween, so it is a rather small program. Still, it can be of small amusement. Happy Halloween one and all!" - Graham L. Wilson, October 31, 2008

"For Halloween 2009 we now have a new and much improved version featuring multiple pumpkins, the ability to add your own custom graphics, and more! Happy Halloween!!!!" - Graham L. Wilson, October 31, 2009

Objects

• Horizontal Line
• Vertical Line
• Right Slash
• Left Slash
• Triangle
• Square
• Circle
• Piga logo (originally a low quality skull)
• Vampire (a mouth with two fangs)
• Viscous (a mouth with lots of pointed teeth)
• Big Teeth (a mouth with large teeth in rows)

Reception

Piga's Pumpkin Carving related sites appear first if the game's name is entered into Google, but the name is too specific for it to mean much. The offical screenshot for version 1.0 appears surprisingly often when searching Piga Software related topics in Google Images.

Credits

• Programming and Graphics: Graham Wilson
• Play Testing: Hamish Wilson
• Music Extraction and Conversion to Ogg Vorbis: Malcolm Wilson Multimedia

Music composed by Bjorn Lynne (PRS). All rights reserved. Used under permission.

I recommend royalty free music from the excellent stock music library at www.Shockwave-Sound.com.

Download

Due to problems with the music channel, we can only offer the Gambas Project available for download. A complied executable is included in the Project Archive for those of you who want to run it as an independent application.

• Gambas 1.0.19 Source Code: CLICK HERE! (1.5.0)
• Gambas 1.0.19 Source Code: CLICK HERE! (1.0.0)