There's a video game out there, called "Animal Crossing". If you've never heard of it, I highly recommend checking it out. It's probably one of the strangest, funnest, most addictive games I've ever played. The premise is simple. You move into a town, full of animal neighbours. From there, you interact with them, while you shop, live, fish, dig for fossils, collect seashells, bugs paintings, harvest fruit, grow vegetables or amass sets of rare furniture. You decide.
You have a mortgage (you have to have goals after all), and can pay it off to get a larger house to store your strange stuff.
The really fascinating part actually is how much programming must have gone into this game. Almost everything can be interacted with, in strange ways. The furniture for instance, is useable, sellable, moveable, tradeable.
Anyway, I could talk about the awesomeness of Animal Crossing all day long, but I won't, I'll just give you some pictures.
 |
| On New Years Eve there are fireworks! You can see one of our constellations in the background. |
 |
| Standing with the mayor (the turtle) and a neighbour (yellow bunny) in front of the New Year's sign. Yes, I AM wearing a Santa suit and a green plaid eye mask. |
 |
| Hipster hubby is fishing from the ocean under the aurora borealis. |
 |
| Hubby, wearing a monacle, is watching me sleep while I'm logged out of the game....how creepy. |
 |
| After watching other players sleep, he then goes after the neighbours, with an axe. |
 |
| One of our other neighbours has an incoherent conversation with hubby....one of the drawbacks of being able to change the neighbours catchphrases or greetings. They also learn words from each other..... |
 |
| This man will teach you how to "emote"....terrifying. |
 |
| Hubby stands in his garishly furnished living room and emotes...surprise? |
No comments:
Post a Comment