Keep coming back.
Twelve monthly campaigns and 96 stages bring seasonal places, guardians and stories. Daily challenges keep the calendar moving. Existing player profiles survive an upgrade.
A-NET ONLINE PRESENTS · VERSION 2.0.0
THEY WERE
JUST PUMPKINS.
Then the patch woke up.
The haunted patch was only the beginning.
Twelve seasonal adventures. Daily challenges. One year of mayhem.
ANSI SOUL. ARCADE ATTITUDE.SCROLL IF YOU DARE ↓
The game and this page change together each month: winter mysteries, spring adventures, summer mayhem, the October pumpkin patch and holiday quests. Twelve campaigns are built into PUMPKO—no monthly download needed. Daily challenges change every UTC day.
01 / THE HAUNTED PATCH
GOOD AIM.
BAD COMPANY.
They’re coming out of the shadows.
Keep the pumpkins away from the gate.
This browser mini-game is your warm-up.
⌖ CLICK / TAP TO FIREGLOWING EYES. TERRIBLE INTENTIONS.
A little web mayhem, inspired by PUMPKO. The full BBS door is waiting below.
02 / A WHOLE YEAR OF ADVENTURE
OLD-SCHOOL DOOR.
NEW-SCHOOL
MAYHEM.
PUMPKO 2.0 changes with the calendar: twelve seasonal campaigns, eight stages per month, and CP437 ANSI artwork. October brings back the haunted pumpkin patch; every other month has its own adventure. Story mode changes monthly and Daily challenges change every day, using UTC dates. All twelve campaigns are included and work offline.
PUT THE PATCH ON YOUR BBS ↗P U M P K O
SEASONS OF ADVENTURE
[S] STORY MODE A seasonal campaign
[D] DAILY CHALLENGE Make it count
[I] INTERBBS SCORES Your board. Worldwide.
[C] SHARED LOBBY Optional live chat
Select your nightmare: ▌
ILLUSTRATED TERMINAL PREVIEW · FEATURES DEPEND ON CONFIGURATION
Rep your board.
Enable optional InterBBS score sharing to send results to the A-Net score hub and view shared Story and Daily leaderboards. Compete across BBSes while keeping your local scores.
Meet in the lobby.
Say yes to live chat during installation to join the shared lobby with players in PUMPKO and ANetARCADE on other BBSes. See connected player, BBS and chat counts. Say no and the chat menu stays hidden.
03 / RELEASE THE PUMPKINS
YOUR BOARD.
YOUR BUILD.
PUMPKO 2.0.0
Pick your platform. Grab the package.
Installation instructions are included.
LINUX
The midnight shift.
x86-64 · Linux BBS systems
UbuntuDebianMint
DOWNLOAD LINUX ZIP ↓Same Linux x64 package for these distributions.
RASPBERRY PISmall board. Big bite.
ARM64 · 64-bit Linux
For your Raspberry Pi BBS.
Use a 64-bit operating system.
DOWNLOAD PI ZIP ↓ARM64 installer and instructions included.
Use a 64-bit operating system.
WINDOWS
Haunt the desktop.
Native Windows BBS builds
Select the architecture for your system.Installation & release notes +
Back up your existing door before upgrading. Each platform ZIP includes its installer, README and FILE_ID.DIZ. Existing configuration is retained; review the optional score-sharing and shared-chat settings during setup.
Version 2.0.0 adds twelve seasonal campaigns, daily challenges and seasonal CP437 artwork. The same packages support fresh installs and upgrades, retaining configuration and player data. Optional score sharing and live chat connect to the A-Net hubs. The included sysop updater can check for signed releases and install an update once the update service is published; it refuses to replace the game while PUMPKO callers are active. No server reboot is required.
Read the setup guide ↗ · Release validation ↗DIFFERENT GAMES. SAME LOBBY.
THE NIGHT IS BETTER
WITH COMPANY.
A PUMPKO player on one BBS. An ANetARCADE player on another.
One shared room. Enable it when you install.
PUMPKO↔A-NET SHARED LOBBY↔ANetARCADE
● A-NET SHARED LOBBYDEMO · 4 PLAYERS / 4 BBSES / 4 IN CHAT
NightOwl is typing…
Animated example conversation. Names, boards and counts are illustrative. This preview does not connect to the live lobby.
THE PATCH IS WAITING.