Animal Crossing: New Horizons Player Finishes Big Villager Project After 3 Years of Playing

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An Animal Crossing: New Horizons player took on the task of making their island the subject of a three-year project that they undertook. The player then posted the results of their project on social media, where other Animal Crossing: New Horizons players not only praised them for their efforts but also shared memories of their time in the game since its launch in 2020.

Three years ago this week, Animal Crossing: New Horizons was launched for the Nintendo Switch. Around the same timeframe, the COVID-19 pandemic began to wreak havoc across the world. As a result, the world saw an uptick in people that stayed home and shifted their focus away from outdoor and social activities to playing games and doing work-from-home jobs to minimize the risks of infection. Animal Crossing: New Horizons was one of the games that people played during quarantine as a way to maintain at least a semblance of social interaction while enjoying a virtual slice of the island life. While COVID-19 protocols have been eased within the last year, that has not stopped one player from continuing work on their island's major project.

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On Reddit, a user named Filbert180 posted their island's main feature. On their island, Filbert180 took an extensive tally of all the Animal Crossing villagers that have lived there at some point since 2020. Filbert180 then noted what their signatures looked like. Then, using Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer on the Nintendo 3DS, Filbert180 used the touchscreen and stylus to recreate the signatures of the villagers. Once those signatures were made, they were used as a reference for redrawing the signatures using the built-in design editor in New Horizons.

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