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Animal Crossing: New Horizons (min-maxing) with Kat Brewster
Season 1 · Episode 1

Animal Crossing: New Horizons (min-maxing) with Kat Brewster

Why do we strive for optimisation in games like Animal Crossing?

Talking Simulator · Jordan Erica Webber

April 6, 202031m 5s

Show Notes

While preparing for Series 2 in the midst of a pandemic, we’ve made this bonus mini-series about a game that has arrived at an opportune moment for millions of isolated and anxious people worldwide: Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

In this first episode, Jordan and Kat discuss the notion of min-maxing and the discomfort that comes when the process of optimisation involves the consumption of natural resources. And, since Kat is a researcher of archives, they pose the question: why do we collect things?


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