Halloween 2018

Oct 30, 2018

Halloween 2018

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Play the Great Ghoul Duel to celebrate Halloween.

About the Doodle

Halloween 2018

Celebrating Halloween 2018

About the Doodle

Happy Halloween! The 2018 Halloween Doodle marks a wickedly exciting milestone: our first-ever multiplayer interactive game Doodle, powered by Google Cloud!

Players around the world join forces on one of two teams of four in the Great Ghoul Duel. Exploring one of several spooky maps, players must collect as many wandering spirit flames as they can in two minutes and return them to their homebase. After time’s up, the team that has collected the most spirit flames wins. But beware! - opponents can intercept spirits from one another as they bring them back to homebase.

As an added BOOOOnus, ghosts who collect the most spirit flames will unlock special powers such as speed boosts, night vision, and much more! Players can also share personal superlatives awarded to them at the end of the match based on their scary good - or just plain scary - performances.

In a Doodle first, players can choose to host a game with up to seven friends and family via a custom invitation link OR just play with randomized players around the globe. The team built several systems to enable this multiplayer gaming, all running on the Google Cloud Platform, including integrating Open Match, a highly-scalable, open source matchmaking framework cofounded by Google Cloud and Unity.

Thanks for stopping by! We hope your journey to achieve #SquadGhouls is terrifyingly spooktacular.

Ready, set, GHOUL!

Illustration of several green and purple ghosts flying in a haunted forest
The Story

About the Halloween 2018 Doodle

Join in as ghosts around the world gather to play their own version of Trick-or-Treat: The Great Ghoul Duel! Ghosts team up and compete to see who can collect the most wandering spirit flames before the moon is gone....but not without some unexpected twists along the way.

Team Great Ghoul Duel Doodle


Google Doodle Team

Art Lead | Nate Swinehart

UX Design | Diana Tran

Producer | Colin Duffy

Engineering | Tom Tabanao, Jonathan Shneier, Mark Ivey, Brian Murray, Ben McMahan, Jacob Howcroft

Doodle Team Leads | Jessica Yu, Brian Kaas, Ryan Germick

Marketing | Perla Campos, Carlos Diaz

Music/Sound | aivi & surasshu, Stemage

Production Support | My-Linh Le

Volunteer Engineer Support | Brandon DeRosier, Monica Rodriguez, Katlyn Edwards

 

Google Cloud Team

Product Manager | Micah Baker

Solutions Architect | Joseph Holley

Marketing | Laith Massarweh, Shana Matthews

Professional Services | Nita Meng

Where this Doodle appeared

The Doodle Halloween 2018 launched Oct 30, 2018

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