Animal Crossing: New Horizons by Noah Wardrip-Fruin - 9780226840703

Animal Crossing: New HorizonsCan a Game Take Care of Us?\nAuthor(s): Noah Wardrip-Fruin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226840703, 978-0226840703\nSynopsis\nCan a game take care of us? And do we want it to?\n\nAnimal Crossing: New Horizons was released on March 20, 2020just as a pandemic kept many from family, work, restaurants, and the rest of their regularly scheduled lives. At its height, the game averaged one million copies sold per day, as players sought comfort, escape, and a virtual means of connection. In this book, game scholar Noah Wardrip-Fruin, isolated with his family by both lockdown and disability, explores the power of this game and the mixed emotions of a player and a parent trying to make it from one day to the nextwhile his kids obsession with Animal Crossing creates conflicts between them and pushback against family rules.\n Wardrip-Fruin helps both Animal Crossing fan.