This version of the game has a variety of issues, all of which put together make it functionally unplayable. But if you like the idea of the game and want to check it out in a working (but still bare-bones) state, please come back in a week (which is the earliest itch will let us update it). Thanks for understanding, and we hope you'll try it then!

We recommend playing in full screen for best effect

Play as a squirrel placing machines to automate the production of pumpkin pies. There are some quality of life features that we didn't have time to implement so here's a basic tutorial:

The inventory will appear on the left side of your screen. You can pick up items by walking over them. This is what you'll use to tell hauler scarecrows what to carry.

The build menu will appear at the bottom of the screen. To build something, first click on it in the build menu, then click where you want to place it at in the world. The items in the build menu, from left to right, are:

1. Hat: Hauler
2. Rock: Carver
3. Hammer: Crusher
4. Pinecone: Driller
5. Stick: Mixer
6. Upside-Down Bucket: Fluid Harvester
7. Oats: Crop Harvester
8. Jack-o-Lantern: Oven

Usage and recipes for these machines are as follows:

Hauler

The hauler picks up items off of the ground, then deposits them in its designated "machine." The Hauler has a small radius around where you initially place it, which is where it will look for items to pick up. To set what item it will pick up, click an item in your inventory, then click the Hauler. This will tell the hauler to pick up that particular item. To set what machine the hauler will deliver to, click on the desired machine in the world, then click the Hauler. This will have the hauler deliver the items to the machine. The Hauler can deliver items only to the Carver, Crusher, or Oven.

Carver

The carver has one specific use in this version of the game: It turns pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns! Not useful necessarily, but cute!

Crusher

The crusher has three different recipes. It can turn chunks of pumpkin spice (which everyone knows is a mineral) into the powdered form. It can also take grain from wheat into flour, or turn pumpkin into pumpkin puree.

Driller

The driller can be placed onto pumpkin spice mineral nodes to harvest pumpkin spice chunks!

Mixer

The mixer has zero recipes in this version of the game due to some bugs. One recipe would've taken in oat milk, pumpkin puree, and pumpkin spice to produce a milky pumpkin puree, and the other recipe would've taken in milky puree and egg to make pumpkin pie mix.

Fluid Harvester

The fluid harvester can be placed on fluid resource nodes to harvest fluids. The two fluid nodes are the well, which the fluid harvest will collect buckets of; and oats, which the harvester will milk to produce oat milk.

Crop Harvester

The crop harvester can bel placed on crop resource nodes to automatically harvest them. Note that these nodes will also be harvested when the player contacts them if they're fully grown, but there's currently no visual indicator so it's best to put a crop harvester on them. The three types of crops are corn, wheat, and pumpkins, with pumpkins being bugged in the current version such that they don't actually produce pumpkins currently.

Oven

The oven has two uses in this version of the game, both of which work (to the best of our knowledge). The first recipe takes in acorn and dough to create pie crust (using the acorn cap as the pan), and the second takes in the pie crust and the finished pumpkin pie mix to produce the pumpkin pie.

The Team

Our team was cobbled together the Thursday that the game jam opened! We are, in order of joining the team:

bandicoot
Programmer

newt
Programmer

panda
Programmer

hawk
Art