Developing Horizons: What Animal Crossing: New Horizons Reveals About Global Development

Developing Horizons: What Animal Crossing: New Horizons Reveals About Global Development

The game will tell you what you want. Then, it will tell you how to achieve it. Of course, this is exactly the premise on which most games operate. Yet the copious hours I have dedicated to Animal Crossing: New Horizons have helped me realise just how this fundamental process can reveal troubling assumptions about what the players are expected to value. (more…)