Animal Crossing: Turning a Space into a Place: A Reflection on the Psychogeography of Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Kapitel i bok, 2025

This contributed chapter is an autobiographical exploration of Animal Crossing: New Horizons through the lenses of psychogeography and place attachment theory – both heavily experiential perspectives. Animal Crossing was released during the COVID-19 global pandemic and soon became a global phenomenon. The game seemed to tap into something that was missing in the physical world at that time. In this chapter, Pauline explores why Animal Crossing: New Horizons provided the opportunity to achieve a sense of place and feelings of community at a time when such opportunities were thin on the ground in reality. The game enables a player to sculpt the type of environment you need most at any point in time and provides refuge from the worries and restrictions of the physical world.

Författare

Pauline Belford

Göteborgs universitet

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign och Software Engineering

Demystifying Game Studies

173-183

Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2025)

Annan data- och informationsvetenskap

DOI

10.1201/9781003530282-9

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2026-02-19