To Give or to Keep: Building the Museum in Animal Crossing
Every insect, fossil, and fish that we collect in Animal Crossing serves a dual purpose… we can either sell them for a profit to keep building up our own residence, […]
Animal Crossing: Building Fences, Guarding our Hearts
One of the best additions to Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the ability to leave your island and visit other real-world player’s towns, but this enhancement does come with some […]
Animal Crossing and a “Foundational” Decision
Choosing where to build our home in Animal Crossing is more important than it seems, and since we make that choice at the very beginning of the game we may […]
Dealing With a Disappointing Season in Animal Crossing (and in Life)
As the seasons come and go, games that exist in real time like Animal Crossing can carry both joy and regret… despite our best efforts, the hopes and expectations we […]
Animal Crossing: The Best Gifts of All
The citizens that populate the world of Animal Crossing truly love giving gifts, and many times the only way to acquire some of these rare and thoughtful one-of-a-kind items is […]
Crafting the Rarest Items in Animal Crossing: Turning the Ordinary into the Extraordinary
Crafting items in games like Animal Crossing typically involves the combination of some rare, hard-to-find items with other fairly normal and ordinary materials. For example, crafting a golden shovel involves […]
Crafting in Animal Crossing: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
While many games allow us to customize what our virtual avatars look like including the clothes that they wear, Animal Crossing takes it a step further by giving us the […]
Truth in Advertising: In Animal Crossing and in our Walk of Faith
There are SO many items to collect and build in Animal Crossing that I’m not even sure that they have ever been properly counted… but while most of them are […]
Nintendo’s Family of Games: Understanding how the Same God Gives Different Answers to Prayer
There is just something about a game created by Nintendo that makes each title feel like they come from the exact same family of games, even though they couldn’t be […]
“Cozy Gaming” in Animal Crossing and Finding Peace in our Storm
One of the reasons the Animal Crossing series has remained so popular after all these years is that it skillfully blends small daily surprises with a warm feeling of comfort […]
Finding God in Video Games 