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Animal Crossing New Horizons : can a game take care of us? / Noah Wardrip-Fruin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wardrip-Fruin, Noah, author.
- Series:
- Replay.
- Replay Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Game).
- Animal Crossing video games--Social aspects.
- Animal Crossing video games.
- Video games--Social aspects.
- Video games.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Can a game take care of us?And do we want it to?Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released on March 20, 2020--just as a pandemic kept many from family, work, restaurants, and the rest of their regularly scheduled lives.
- Contents:
- Preface : I hated Animal crossing
- Part 1: Journal of the game year. Covid crossings; Narrow horizons; Life before progress; How we can know; Selves and shelves; The meaning of life
- Part 2: paternal play. Mediated fatherhood; Making progress; Compelled to play; The crossing contract; Outside the system; Flying away
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-226-84071-9
- 9780226840710
- OCLC:
- 1543543955
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