We are continually asking ourselves about what kind of place the game could have in people’s actual lives.” ![]() Hisashi Nogami, Animal Crossing series producer, who has been at Nintendo since 1994, says: “If, when you’re playing, you’re thinking about some day showing somebody what you’ve achieved, or telling them about it, then maybe you’ll feel differently. ![]() What would make me most happy is if people with all kinds of different tastes come together and enjoy the game in their own ways.” “I hope that through their life in the game world, people enjoy communicating with each other, whether it’s through playing with other people or talking enthusiastically about the game. “Animal Crossing is a communication game,” says Aya Kyogoku, who has worked on every Animal Crossing game since 2003. Hisashi Nogami, Animal Crossing series producer at Nintendo, where he has worked since 1994. In Kyoto, Japan, the game’s creators at Nintendo are finding the immense virality of Animal Crossing: New Horizons validating, because this is a game designed to be shared. ![]() It can occupy you for a few hours a week, pootling around pulling up weeds and catching up with your penguin neighbour or for hours every day, amassing wealth and furniture and clothing until your virtual house looks like an imaginative 12-year-old’s dream mansion. (Yes, that is a thing.) But this is part of Animal Crossing’s magic: you really can play it the way you like. ![]() In reality, plenty of players are breaking it apart at the seams, turning their islands into aerial portraits of Sailor Moon, getting deep into hybrid flower agriculture theory, or plugging into shady networks of turnip-traders to amass 1%-er level riches on the game’s “stalk market”. It is a relaxing game with a chill vibe – in theory. Players have put together everything from haunted houses to zen gardens to little farmers’ markets and libraries. You fish, catch bugs, water flowers, plant fruit trees and accumulate cute things with which to decorate your home and set dress the island. Guys I tweeted my turnip prices and elijah wood just came to my island and hung out □□□□□ this is the best day in quarantine yet /H3mYJWnvgR- jessa □ April 23, 2020įor those untouched by the cult of Nook, Animal Crossing: New Horizons lets you set up an alternate life on a pleasant island populated by gently weird animals.
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