An Animal Crossing: New Horizons player recreated popular fast-food restaurant Taco Bell in-game this week, complete with a drive-thru.
An Animal Crossing: New Horizons player made a detailed recreation of fast-food restaurant Taco Bell this week, even including a drive-thru and parking lot next to the storefront. In the game's community, players create detailed builds like this often, making Animal Crossing versions of pop-culture locations, video game locales, and famous real-life places.
Design is a large aspect of Animal Crossing gameplay - players have been tasked to design an island from the ground up and make it inhabitable for anthropomorphic animal villagers, decorating it in any way they like. As the game progresses, players build up their catalog - an index of items they've obtained from in-game stores, gifts from villagers, and other methods. The game already contained thousands of items that gamers could acquire, and the recent Animal Crossing 2.
So much of this impressive design was made possible through custom design patterns - they've been used to create the logo-filled signs synonymous with the brand, the realistic asphalt that helps give an authentic parking lot vibe, and the menu full of Taco Bell items in the drive-thru. The use of custom designs is almost always necessary when it comes to creating Animal Crossing builds that require specificity in order to be recognizable, such as this one.
A delightful creation like this one is an impressive reminder of how just how many players are active within the Animal Crossing: New Horizons custom design community, and how large of a role they play in the lengths players can go when decorating their islands. Those in the game's community don't just have a keen eye when it comes to object placement - many are talented artists as well.