A good set of mechanics. This town would be absolutely obliterated after a week. I never really felt threatened by the police or the panic mechanic. I think by tweaking the parameters like town layout, scream radius of effect, speed, etc it could feel more tense with the same gameplay.

Good thing the town packs themselves into buildings like its a clown car, the Count wouldn't make it past the first summer otherwise :P
 
I'm definitely a fan of giving the light a mechanical purpose, although the civilians were quite easy to corral even when spooked. Having a shop at the end gives secondary runs a much better feel of progression, and I'd have loved if the npcs got smarter/harder at the same time.

I did notice there is a spot in the bottom right ish where a lampost is close to a river end and the npcs got stuck quite frequently trying to path through it.

I'll be interested to see what you do post jam as you've noted, congrats on submitting. Rooting for you to get enough ratings to pass the median (13, right now)

This game has a lot of charm! I like how you fit the theme in 4 different ways lol!

Really nice sound. I had issues on browser so played on desktop instead, and it was a good decision because the play through was worth it. (I made my first Godot game for this and it is quite difficult to optimize  for web!)

Music and screaming is great audio. I ended up camping outside 2 doors and it was not too bad. Maybe remove the ability to spawn a human if you are close to the spawner? Regardless it was cool :) 

Very cute, with great artwork!

This was really goofy and fun and I loved it :D