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Sunday 6 January 2013

Organic Farming in the Realm of Animal Crossing

By Rob Sutter


"Animal Crossing" is a game that showcases your life away from home. It's not long until you move into a town that's unfamiliar to you and thrust into a job in order to pay off a mortgage. Along the way, you make money in order to pay off said mortgage and interact with neighbors, earning friends in the process. For the former need, though, money can be found through many different items. Organic farming should have been used to earn just a bit more.

The jobs that you do in "Animal Crossing" are just a fraction of the game since there are also hobbies to look into. Fishing and gardening alike can be done to either make profits or simply pass the time until either daytime or nightfall. I'm sure that organic farming could become yet another hobby in this quaint town. Nook's Cranny, the store within the town, could easily purchase what you're offering, rendering it a universal stop like Colle Farmers Market.

What if it came time to visit other towns? "Animal Crossing" allows players to visit other towns outside of the one that they reside in, which is perfect if a player likes to sell their goods to others which may not have them. If you have a friend with the same game in a town his or her own, you are very much set to travel. Let's say that the fruit that is commonly grown in your town is peaches while another one has apples. Peaches have a greater level of wealth outside of their place of origin, making them perfect to sell to other locations.

Wouldn't it be something else if the game let you open up shop for yourself? After all, you have a mortgage that needs to be met, so who's to say that you couldn't rack up money to do so faster? It'd be easy to set up shop with the items that you farm being put up for sale. Marketing your items to Nook's Cranny is fine and all but the truth of the matter is that going into business for yourself might just help you live a more sustainable life in "Animal Crossing."

Farmers in the world we know it today have been able to sell off products they grow in their own fields like berries and corn. If this is the case, what would it hurt to apply that way of life to a video game such as "Animal Crossing?" Since fishing, digging, and working in general are done in copious amounts, why not incorporate something that, while taxing, can ultimately benefit you financially? With a mortgage to look out for, this idea could stand strong.




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