
44: Quarantine Arcade with Derek Yu
Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games
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The Slowness of Animal Crossing
One thing I will say about Animal Crossing that makes me feel like it's deliberately slow is particularly with the crafting one of the big complaints is that you can't make more than one of something at a time. But the game does give you a way to speed up the construction animation where you have to mash the A or B button to do it so they obviously thought about it. And I think sometimes, you know, we all go through this as game designers. And then we're just addressing feedback is really hard because sometimes the quick fixes is like what is the old lady who swallowed the fly right?
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