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Haunt the Yard

Decorate · Light Up · Watch

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  • Free
  • No ads
  • No account needed
  • No install — plays in your browser

About the game

Decorate a haunted yard, light it up, and watch a 46-second film of it come alive.

A house, a lawn and 150 things to put on it. Pumpkins that grin and scream, skeletons and skeleton dogs, witches at cauldrons, ghosts on wires, black cats, owls, spiders, clowns, demons and a scarecrow or two. Drag them onto the grass, turn them, stack the porch, hang something from a bare tree. When the yard is full, light it up: day slides into dusk, the windows come on, the candles catch, lightning strikes the front lawn and everything you placed gets up, one by one, and comes for you — shambling, flying, running rings, climbing the fence. It ends on HAPPY HALLOWEEN in carved orange letters. The whole thing is a 46-second portrait film you can save to your phone, scored with a soundtrack you pick — a wound-down music box, a chapel organ, a broken carnival waltz, cold strings, a toy piano, or just the wind. Send the room link to up to three other people and you all decorate the same yard together, wherever they are, with nothing to install.

How to play

  1. Pick a house and a soundtrack, then press Start decorating.
  2. Choose a decoration from the shelf, then tap the yard where you want it.
  3. Tap something you have placed to turn it 15° either way or remove it.
  4. Once at least eight decorations are out, press Light it up and watch the yard come alive at night.
  5. Press Make the video, then Save video to keep the film.

Controls

TouchTap a decoration, then tap the yard to place it. Drag to pan, and pinch or slide two fingers to zoom and walk round the yard.
MouseClick a decoration, then click the yard to place it. Drag to pan, scroll to zoom, and use the side buttons to turn or reset the view.

Screenshots

  • Setup screen with room code C8GNRX, the name Juno, four houses and a music choice, and a Start decorating button
  • A two-storey house with pumpkins, ghosts, gravestones and an obelisk on the lawn, beside a shelf of graveyard pieces
  • A closer view of the yard with a witch, ghosts, a torch and a skeleton, and the Lights shelf open on the left
  • A witch decoration selected on the lawn, ringed in light, with turn, remove and done buttons beside it
  • The yard at night, lit up: glowing jack-o'-lanterns, a torch and ghosts in front of the dark house
  • A close film shot at night of a skeleton, a witch and a burning torch by the picket fence

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