{"id":13809,"date":"2024-03-21T16:38:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T15:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/21\/a-fascinating-insight-into-pandemic-psychology-how-animal-crossing-gave-us-an-escape\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T16:38:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T15:38:07","slug":"a-fascinating-insight-into-pandemic-psychology-how-animal-crossing-gave-us-an-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/21\/a-fascinating-insight-into-pandemic-psychology-how-animal-crossing-gave-us-an-escape\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A fascinating insight into pandemic psychology\u2019: how Animal Crossing gave us an escape"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was the biggest online game in lockdown. Now the National Videogame Museum has collected players\u2019 experiences to find out what it meant to them<\/p>\n

\u201cToday is the first day of your new life on this pristine, lovely island. So, congratulations!\u201d says Tom Nook, the benevolent tanuki landlord, a few minutes into Animal Crossing: New Horizons. (Nook is often besmirched online, but you can\u2019t argue that he\u2019s extremely welcoming.) Many players read this comforting message at a destabilising and frightening time in the real world: Animal Crossing: New Horizons came out on Nintendo Switch on 20 March 2020, a few months into the Covid pandemic and a few days before the UK entered its first lockdown.<\/p>\n

This was fortuitous timing. When we were all stuck at home, the game let us plant our native fruits, tend to our flowers and see what the town shop had on offer, repaying our extensive loans (interest-free, thankfully) to Tom Nook as a way of escaping the chaos and daily death tolls. We opened the gates to our islands and welcomed friends and strangers into our pristine little worlds. As real life crumbled, we started anew with bespectacled cats<\/a>, sheep in clown\u2019s coats<\/a> and rhinos who looked like cakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nIt was the biggest online game in lockdown. Now the National Videogame Museum has collected players\u2019 experiences to find out what it meant to them
\n\u201cToday is the first day of your new life on this pristine, lovely island. So, congratulations!\u201d says Tom Nook, the benevolent tanuki landlord, a few minutes into Animal Crossing: New Horizons. (Nook is often besmirched online, but you can\u2019t argue that he\u2019s extremely welcoming.) Many players read this comforting message at a destabilising and frightening time in the real world: Animal Crossing: New Horizons came out on Nintendo Switch on 20 March 2020, a few months into the Covid pandemic and a few days before the UK entered its first lockdown.
\nThis was fortuitous timing. When we were all stuck at home, the game let us plant our native fruits, tend to our flowers and see what the town shop had on offer, repaying our extensive loans (interest-free, thankfully) to Tom Nook as a way of escaping the chaos and daily death tolls. We opened the gates to our islands and welcomed friends and strangers into our pristine little worlds. As real life crumbled, we started anew with bespectacled cats, sheep in clown\u2019s coats and rhinos who looked like cakes. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was the biggest online game in lockdown. Now the National Videogame Museum has collected players\u2019 experiences to find out what it meant to them \u201cToday is the first day of your new life on this pristine, lovely island. So, congratulations!\u201d says Tom Nook, the benevolent tanuki landlord, a few minutes into Animal Crossing: New …<\/p>\n

\u2018A fascinating insight into pandemic psychology\u2019: how Animal Crossing gave us an escape<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}