Halloween 2009 – Phenomethon of Links

Updated: 10/30! (original post 10/20)

Welcome to the Hanttula’s 2009
HALLOWEEN PHENOMETHON of LINKS

Games

1. Days 2 Die: defend yourself from the oncoming cartoon zombie attack (side-scrolling shooter)
2. Days 2 Die – The Other Side: More side-scrolling, zombie shooting action; with advanced interactivity & game-play.
3. Springed Spooks Attack: Fend off attacks from spring-bound spooks to save the princess {fun cartoon style!}
4. Night of 1000 Zombies: You are a jack-o-lantern, tossing your own head to smash approaching zombies
5. Blood Red: fend off wave-after-wave of rising zombies (in spooky silhouette against a setting sun)
6. Monster Match: Stack matching monsters to remove them in this reverse-Tetris style game
7. Dead Frontier – Night One: Can you survive the night during an onslaught of malicious zombies? (a top-down Zombie survival game)
8. Dead Frontier: Outbreak – a ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’-type text (and audio) based story (a promotion for the MMORPG version of the “Dead Frontier” shooting game above)
9. Mon-Buster: Match monster tiles to remove them in this timed memory game
10. Whack-a-Ghoul: like Whack-a-Mole but with ghouls
11. Ghost Town: a club-wielding baby in a cemetery makes battle with ghosts & other haunting baddies.
12. De-Animator: a shooting game in which you play the part of a regretful scientist who chooses to undo his “reanimation” of corpses… one bullet at a time.
13. Ghoul Academy: side-scrolling shooter action in this early 90’s style video game
14. Pumpkin Toss: a shooting-gallery type game in which you toss pumpkins at approaching ghosts, ghouls & skeletons.
15. Halloween Pumpkins: a stacking-puzzle/strategy game… with pumpkins!
16. Halloween Hangman: just what you would imagine.
17. All Hallow’s Eve: Defend your home from attacking zombies. Aim for the head.
18. Candy Toss: toss treats to trick-or-treaters on the street below.
19. Halloween on Creepy Street: kind of like Super Mario Bros. expect you’re trick-or-treater dressed as a ghost.
20. Ghost Bowling: Roll jack-o-lanterns at ghostly pins!
21. Bill the Demon: Find souls. Eat them.
22. Halloween Smash: like Bejeweled, but with Halloween-related items.
23. Pumpkin Remover: solve puzzles based around falling pumpkins

Inspiration/Entertainment

1. Music & Sounds – “Doctor Druid’s Haunted Seance”: a spooky sound recording from the 1970’s
2. Carved Robot Pumpkins: 10 carved pumpkins, modified to look like robots.
   See also: The Automatonic Gourd (a fully robotized pumpkin)
3. Make a Realistic Stitched Wound: part of Instructables’ DIY Halloween
4. Para Abnormal: a web comic with posts for the “31 Days of Halloween”
5. Crumpkin’s Pumpkins: visit this haunted pumpkin patch and click (and click and click) around to see what surprises await you.
   {or just go to listen to the creepy ambient soundtrack }.
6. Pompor: the {faux} IKEA, flat-packed pumpkin
7. Create and Draw Monsters: classic monster & Halloween coloring book pages
8. Virtual Pumpkin Carving: illuminates when you are done!
9. Vintage Halloween: decorations & designs (on Flickr)
10. Java’s Cosmic Halloween Special: a podcast mix of retro-lounge Halloween tunes and an eerie radio play with zombies, car races & possessed pumpkins.

How-To

1. Make a Meatloaf Severed Hand: a visually gruesome (and potentially tasty) Halloween dinner
2. Make a Realistic Stitched Wound: part of Instructables’ DIY Halloween
3. How to Make a Cylon Jack-o-Lantern: Battlestar Galactica meets Halloween.
4. Make a Living Severed Hand: a somewhat convincing & semi-subtle Halloween costume
5. The Snap-o-lantern: how to make a robotic, snapping jack-o-lantern
6. Drilled Pumpkins: Carving pumpkins with a drill. Not very ‘traditional-looking,’ but makes for some interesting lanterns.
7. Very cool & simple (to make) Halloween Mask: if you have two large sheets of paper & about 15 minutes you can create a mask that gives the impression of the wearer’s head being twisted all the way around his/her body
8. Low-Cost Halloween Pop-Up Character: build your own creature to pop out of a container and scare trick-or-treaters. Here’s a video of the device in action.
9. Halloween Candy Code: Hobo signs reinterpreted to mark houses for their Halloween candy content. For those interested, more on hobo signs/code.
10. Breadstick Mummy Dogs: hot dogs wrapped in dough to look like mummies. Frightfully tasty!
11. MonsterList: a massive list of Halloween projects.