Animal Crossing: New Horizonsallows players to design the walls and floor of their in-game homes, along with placing and rearranging hundreds of items, which allows for near endless customization options. CountlessAnimal Crossingplayers have used this system to create truly stunning interior designs. The only way in which the game can be quite limiting for players, however, is in the layout of the homes themselves.
At the beginning ofAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, players are given a home on their island which they are free to design any way they choose, but this home will always be a perfectly square room.Upgrading the player’sAnimal Crossinghomewill increase the size of this space and add adjoining rooms, but players will never have the chance to decorate a hallway or a foyer for their homes.
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Players have had to get creative, then, with the different customization options available to them and the perspective of the game itself. A Reddit user named shakeber has shared a clever trick for designing a hallway which leads to the bottom of what looks like a staircase and gives the impression that the player’sAnimal Crossinghouse has a different layout than theopen plan squares of mostAnimal Crossinghomes.
The effect is created by using the suitably named Stair Dresser item and placing it in a gap behind a partition wall so that it creates the impression of a continuing staircase. Shakeber also uses stickers to create a door next to the staircase and decorates the area to create an adorable entrance hall, complete with an Iron Hanger Stand and shoes by the door.
FromAnimal Crossing’s traditional top-down camera perspective, the illusionary staircase stands up to scrutiny, although the camera is able to move freely 360 degrees around the room when inside a player’s home, which may cause the illusion to break down slightly. ButAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsis a game about creating a picturesque home on a picturesque island, and a staircase to nowhere in service of thatisn’t nearly is strange as the interior designing done by otherAnimal Crossingvillagers. Looking at previous posts from Shakeber on Reddit, as well as on their Twitter account, reveals many more creativeAnimal Crossingdesigns for both inside the player’s home and the rest of the island, with many of these designs using similar forced perspective tricks to imply hidden areas to the viewer.
All of ShakeberAnimal Crossingposts are designs which could inspire other players who are struggling to make up their mind on what kind of aesthetic theme they would like to apply to a particular area of their island or to therooms in theirAnimal Crossinghouse.
Animal Crossing: New Horizonsis available for Nintendo Switch.
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