So for this post I wanted to write about a mobile game I have been addicted to for quite a while, Animal Crossing Pocket Camp. Animal Crossing has always been good at keeping players playing by creating various new events through out the year and including new clothes and furniture. I feel like the Mobile game, perhaps thanks to it being more accessible on phone as opposed to on a console, is far more addicting. So, to get more items in the game the player must talk to villagers and give them various items they can acquire at different items. Each villager has three requests and every 3 hours the 4 villagers at the 4 different islands are resetted. Thus, the game has significant amount of replayability as there is always a new request to accomplish. There are some mobile game trappings in this game. For one, the leaf tickets on the top middle of the screen can be awarded if the player achieves enough goals, but to get a substantial amount of those tickets one must buy them through the store. The game has numerous limited time events such as the one being stated in the top left corner about a rose festival that has items that can only be acquired during that time period. For completionists, having such limited time events causes players to continuosly be playing to make sure they get all the items. If they are running out of time though for certain events they could just buy the items instead with leaf tickets, with the rose festival that is not the case though. Another time aspect is that many items take a lot of time to build, such as the amenity in the second picture. To speed up time one can also use leaf tickets. And though for the rose festival a player can’t buy the awards, they can buy the means to the awards buy paying a character in leaf tickets to make sure they capture the items needed. Overall though I like how often the game is updated and that the notice board constantly updates players on future events and known issues. And though the game does have the pay-to-win aspect to it, it has enough resets throughout the day that so long as you are playing enough you can reasonably expect to be able to finish the event and get all the items.
