A player of Animal Crossing: New Horizons has shared a look at their custom graduation cap, which celebrates both the professional milestone and the game with adorable personalization. Animal Crossing‘s focus on crafting and designing has spilled into the real world in the year since its release, with fans creating real-world versions of everything from the game’s characters to its furniture.
Animal Crossing‘s slice-of-life gameplay gives players the chance to relax, build, craft, farm, and design across their entire island. Like many similar games, the title encourages player creativity, and many fans have taken this outside of the game world through art, crafts, and carpentry. AC‘s ever-growing community has created everything from outfits to miniature Nook’s Cranny’s in real life, with everything from the game’s fossils to fruit inspiring countless creators. Perhaps some of the most notable fan recreations come inspired by the game’s furniture sets, with users making their own Froggy Chairs and even a real version of Animal Crossing‘s Ironwood Dresser.
Redditor kunjeniet has impressed Animal Crossing: New Horizons players with their adorable custom graduation cap, which features their in-game character dressed for the occasion. The cap has a flower border recognizing the game’s seasonal gameplay, as well as butterflies similar to the ones players can catch and sell. The graduation cap is finished off with an Animal Crossing narration bubble that mimics in-game triumphs such as catching a bug or fish. To commemorate the special event, the user’s cap quote reads: “Woo-hoo! I caught a diploma!“
See the post on Reddit here.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a game that very much celebrates players’ successes, honoring every bug caught, fossil found, Gyroid dug up, and every Bell milestone paid off. Players aren’t able to receive an education in the game, unlike other life simulations like The Sims 4‘s university expansion, but the Happy Home Paradise DLC arguably comes close. The newly-launched paid DLC introduces the job of Happy Home Paradise Planner, which features a school from which players can learn new skills.
The Animal Crossing community is showing no sign of slowing down when it comes to fan-made creations and crafts, and kunjeniet’s custom graduation cap is likely to inspire other fans of the game. The image has seen over 1,000 upvotes on Reddit from appreciative players, which might make video game graduation caps a popular design choice in the future. As Nintendo fans continue to enjoy the relaxing life sim, there’s bound to be even more Animal Crossing-inspired crafts designed by players in the future.
Source: kunjeniet/Reddit
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