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Pumpkin Patch Panic, a LibGDX game by Charlie Dobbie for maycontainsoftware.com

Graphics created or adapted from Public Domain and CC0 sources.

Sounds adapted from Public Domain and CC0 sources.

"Come Play with Me" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Concept
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A whack-a-mole style game with a Hallowe'en theme.  Night-time in a small patch
of pumpkins, the pumpkins are being possessed by evil spirits.  The player has
to tap the pumpkins only when they are possessed - tapping too late will allow
the spirit to escape.  The player has three lives, and loses a life whenever he
taps a pumpkin too early, or allows a spirit to escape.

A new life is granted every five levels, with no maximum.  Surviving a round
just leads to the next round, where difficulty increases in the form of faster
possession and less time before the spirit escapes.  There is no win-condition,
the player can only survive as long as they can.

Screen Layout
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Graphically, most of the scene is static with notable exceptions of the moon
(drifts left-to-right) an owl (moves eyes, occasionally blinks) and clouds
(drift slowly right-to-left).  Pumpkins shake slightly when being possessed and
more violently when the spirit is about to escape.

Some status information exists: all screens include the current best score (in
the form of rounds completed) in the top-left of the screen, the game screen
additionally includes a lives display in the top-centre, current round in the
top-right, and the time left in the current round towards the middle of the
screen.

Screens
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There are four different screens, namely:

* Main menu - provides access to the settings and help screens, also for
  starting the game.
* Help - a small number of help screens the player can flip through that
  describe how to play the game.
* Settings - a number of game options, including sound on/off, music on/off and
  resetting the top score.
* Game - the running game.

PumpkinScreen
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To reduce duplication, a Screen subclass exists to render the common elements of
each screen - the sky, hillside, trees, owl, clouds and moon.

Advertising
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The game is designed to be monetised via Google AdMob.  A single advert banner
should exist overlaid on the OpenGL canvas at top-middle of the screen.
Advertising will only appear on the menus, not during the game.

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