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Syndical Crossing

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Fangame
NameSyndical Crossing
FandomAnimal Crossing
Developer(s)wobblydev
Release dateUnreleased
External link(s)Syndical Crossing website
syndicalcrossing - Tumblr account
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Syndical Crossing is a project currently in the works by wobblydev that aims to create an Animal Crossing based fangame that critiques the capitalist tendancies of said game series, specifically that of Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Building Syndical Crossing is a fascinating experiment for so many reasons. Since the game is ostensibly a revolutionary unionist critique of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, I find myself compelled to re-imagine every one of the game’s premises and mechanics.

Let’s take for example the very beginning of any AC:NH game. The player is greeted by Timmy and Tommy Nook, and presented with a randomly generated array of islands to settle. Each island is completely new—unexplored and undeveloped. Under even rudimentary scrutiny, there is and never has been such a place in this world—at least in the historical epoch. Just about any environment that could cultivate life has become the ancestral home of a human population. The myth of an empty, virgin landscape is a fantasy born utterly of a settler colonial mindset.[1]

References

  1. ^ Tumblr post (Nov 2020)