You are a pumpkin, (Orange) and you are trying to get as much candy, (Pink) as you can before the ghost, (Purple) Catches you. P.s. When you touch the candy, it isn't a bug that your score goes up a lot, that is so the faster you get to it, the more you get.
Credits to ThePancakeMan for giving me the idea to use gradients for a game. Go check his project out at http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/12757986/ Thanks for playing!