How could Animal Crossing be improved?
What features would you like to see in a sequel or similar game?
What mechanics suck?
Allowing the player to pick where animals can move in. Fuckin god damn I hate when an animal just decides to move into the middle of my park or some shit instead of any other nice spot in town.
>>335935871
>Add a feature where you can marry and fuck that dog.
>remove time grinding
Inb4 dating
>>335936362
>remove time grinding
>removing one of the features AC's entire gameplay is based
get out
Farming/gardening
I know there's Harvest Moon and games like that. But they don't have town-building.
I just want to build a town and put some nice veggie gardens around.
Cooking?
>>335936673
>>335936821
These for perfect comfy game
>>335936821
What would you even do with food in a game like that?
dating and breeding
>>335936362
ISABELLE IS PURE
PURE!
Better inventory.
More interesting NPC and ways to interact with them.
More events.
>>335937431
oh my
>>335937431
WAY2LEWD
>>335937771
>Better inventory.
whats wrong with AC's inventory
>>335937431
DELETE THIS!
>>335937431
Is that from the show?
>>335938281
>>335938275
We had good animation and lewd shit back in our days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAQ7bxeNtxA
>>335937431
Came here to unironically say this.
Minus the breeding part, of course. Although...
Anyways, I think it would be nice to have dating mechanics, akin to the harvest moon series, but maybe it would have to make some changes to the neighbor rotation system.
I want them to go back to lo-fi graphics.
>>335938646
>>335938236
I agree with this. AC had a pretty good inventory, can't think of any way to improve it.
The dialogue in the last game was pretty shit.
Maybe give animals some unique dialogue or situations between them and other unique villagers.
Try to be forgiving to people who can't be available at certain hours to access certain parts of the game.
Make events less frequent, more interesting.
Give players the ability to leave their town open to certain friends (not like the dream world, where you couldn't bring anything back, and the music's weird).
Bring back the square section based town map.
Put secrets in the game that provide the excitement you got when you
found there was a whole NES game inside the GCN animal crossing.
Bring back Resetti.
Allow players to choose skin color.
Allow mayors more options to customize their town. There's no reason why I can't make an
actual stone path using my touch pad as a planning tool.
Just some ideas off the top of my head.
>>335938471
The animation is cute and all, but those fucking hi-pitched voices are way too fucking annoying to bear.
>>335938829
I'm OP, I'm asking because I'm making an Animal Crossing-like game. This is what I want to read, thanks!
>>335938983
np op
>>335938236
>>335938746
You are constantly limited by the inventory space, I thought it was way too small. I'm not asking for unlimited space because inventory management is part of the game, but it gets dumb when you have to use letter slot to store more items.
>>335939637
Yeah I do agree with that.
I think all tools should have their own specific equip slots, so that they never have to take up normal inventory space. Those were probably the most annoying slot hogs.
More slots or a better way to manage the pattern designs.
A lot of people use patterns to decorate their town, and some people with a lot of different patterns would need to create extra characters just to hold all of them.
It would also be nice if patterns allowed for transparency.
>>335938646
>lo-fi graphics
Those are just regular gamecube graphics and it fit for the time. I can get if it was some sort of indie game and they don't have much of a budget, but to just scale the graphics down to that much in this day and age seems dumb
>>335938829
>Allow players to choose skin color.
why
How big of a cash grab will the mobile version be?
>>335941168
because non-white people exist
>>335941168
Because it's the current year, didn't you know?
>>335937426
Presents.
>>335941168
go back to /pol/
Dog pussy
>>335942908
In case you didn't notice the Japanese aren't exactly white
>>335935871
Add facepetting and marriage. Is there an AC dating sim yet?
>>335944204
>Japs absolutely love black people and aryans
>>335944204
>they only sell to japanese people
>>335937426
See >>335936673
And you can give food to villagers as presents which will make them like you more. Maybe some villagers can be good at cooking.
>>335946645
I though you replied to the gardening post and not the cooking one.
I'm retarded.
>>335938983
Whoa, post the game please.I'm making an AC-like game too but I barely started so I have nothing to show
>>335939863
I've been wanting things like a tool belt for ages.
Also how does everyone feel about Animal crossing heading to mobile devices thanks to the success of miitomo?
>>335938983
I hope your designs are as wacky as the ones from the konami version of animal crossing. I liked the guy that had a TV for a head
>>335936362
>>335937431
>>335937846
>>335938604
>>335943978
>>335944439
>>335946796
Are you aware that there are people who care and worry about you?
>>335937771
What is she getting in the mail?
>>335938983
You're making your own?
Since you're doing that, one thing to do would be to give more depth to things that you can do in animal crossing.
Making a lot of social features will help too. Since you're making it for PC probably, you can add a more multiplayer focused game.
A weird thought came to my head for something like this.
What if you had a game (like a card game) that would add
a more competitive level to the game?
How about your character can go to a computer to look at an in game website that is actually a guide to how to play the game for people who forget certain stuff?
Making it more convenient than just alt-tabbing to wikipedia would be tough though.
Good luck
>>335947193
collaborate. Better to work together to make one decent game than two less decent games
>>335947431
my love letter
>>335947631
I would love to but I have no particular talent so if I joined a team I would bring everybody else down ;_;
So I'm stuck with doing everything (badly) by myself.
the ability to increase the size of the town or open s shop
>>335939863
Also if fruit would auto-stack into baskets instead of it being a manual process, that'd be great. (Pls bring back the menu BG customisation and the "need anything?" Dialog option for villagers.)
>>335947986
Well, based on that, it looks like you know how to follow directions.
I'm sure if you helped the other guy out, it would work out fine.
>>335947986
Even just having someone else to bounce ideas between is a huge help, Anon.
>>335947409
Why are you trying to be Barneyfag 2.0? You know that's a bad thing, right?
>>335948349
I guess, but I would rather have coding and modeling skils than ideas.
I do have some ideas jotted down, do you want me to post some?
Make getting bells not boring and grindy.
Expand the game and the world so there's more than 30 minutes worth of things to do in a day.
Give villagers a LOT more dialogue. It's been like 5 games and characters still start repeating themselves after just a few days.
Make more customization options. I wanna see actual path systems, rotating town objects, relocating houses, zones people can and can't move in to, etc.
Create way deeper villager interactions like dating.
Stop punishing me for not playing the game for a long time.
>>335948530
Well, the other dude might take em, I'm not OP.
I'll read if you feel like it anyway.
I'm shit at modeling too.
Just gotta practice that shit every day like anything else.
Be patient.
>>335948495
Barneyfag is a good man. I don't entirely agree with his methods, but he is fighting for a good cause.
>>335947910
Please seek help.
>>335948787
Ok then. Here's the general concept I had in mind. It's a bit different from AC though.
Imagine Animal Crossing, same vibe, same comfiness, similar artsyle so
>fishing, catching bugs, looking for plants, fossils, gems
Except:
>instead of a village, you are in a huge forest
>instead of a mayor, you're a wandering camper
>instead of animal villagers, you're completely alone
>instead of decorating your house and running errands, you explore the forest
>you can meet other travelers like you and talk wit them, but they will leave after a while
>sell/buy/trade stuff, go on adventures together with other campers
>set up your tent when you want to save
>you can choose where to unmount it and bring it with you or leave it
>if you don't bring it with you, you have to go back there to save or you can build another one and save on the spot
>set up camp fires to keep wilid life
>build traps to protect your tent
>find and explore hills, lakes, caves, beaches, mountain tops, etc.
I also compiled a more detailed design document but that might be too long to post.
>>335949028
I like that idea, though I don't think it's very much like animal crossing.
I've never heard of a game like that.
The one thing it might need is some solid objectives. In AC, you need to pay off your rent.
What's something you would work toward in this game?
>>335949028
I remember this, you posted this on /agdg/ before, right?
It sounds pretty comfy.
>>335949028
Sounds comfy. Would travelers have personality that makes them unique, or are they just Animal Crossing-tier cutouts? I can't imagine them being very fleshed out if you can't even keep them around.
>>335949028
Sounds too lonely to be honest. One of the most comfy parts of Animal Crossing is the comforting feeling a familiarity. You know your neighbors, you know your town, you know the store clerks. What you're describing honestly sounds like Minecraft, which is a pretty lonely feeling game, even if you're by villagers or even other players.
>>335947252
it's shit and phones will never be good platforms, forever limited by the shittiness of touch only
>>335949295
Yeah I thought about that too.
I haven't come up with any real objective, the only thing that came to mind was simply exploring the map and finding new areas, landmarks and weird stuff. So it would be kind of aimless wandering looking for interesting stuff.
>>335949326
Yup. Unfortunately you may notice I haven't made much progress.
>>335949970
I was thinking quite the opposite. Instead of having a big number of characters with a limited set of personalities, have just a handful of characters with unique personalities and back story. Since you'd rarely run into them you wouldn't get bored of them as quickly.
>>335950040
I guess so. I just thought exploring a huge non spooky forest alone could be pretty comfy. With nature sounds, wild life etc around you.
I'm a loner so that might be the reason (though I do love Animal Crossing a lot).
>>335947986
Hey anon, OP and fellow agdg dev. Do you want to collab? I'm using UE4, but I'd be willing to help you if you wanted to join me.
JOIN ME, AND WE'LL RULE THE WORLD TOGETHER
>>335938746
I was thinking they could put tools in a "toolbelt".
>>335951716
This is planned for my game, but you'll have to buy a toolbelt first. Also planning to have a backpack (you start with 16 slots, then the backpack adds 8 more, permanent upgrade).
>>335951840
Backpacks would be cool, too.
Also some way to warn the player of low-space, such as an icon or an animation having the player struggle to fit a leaf or a fauna in their pockets.
Roommates, dating, and marriage
>>335937520
Nope.
>More activities
>ability to not be mayor
>date a female villager
>>335952306
>>335952435
>ability toh*ld h*ndswith a villager
>>335952096
>>335952435
Why would you want to date an animal?
>>335952435
>date a female villager
>not wanting to date a male villager
-Ability to ask for errands like in the first game so you can load up on things to do instead of just running around hoping someone gives you shit, and you can chat when you want to chat
-More places to "work" like Brewster's Cafe in NL.
-Better balancing of the Island / Town Ordinances because while it was nice to get a ton of money for ordinances (which you basically had to fund entirely yourself), it made it pointless to try to run errands, or fish or catch bugs for money. Either make the townies actually fucking help or make it not cost as much.
-More dialog options for locked-in NPCs like the Able Sisters, Copper, etc. It's a fucking travesty how much they neutered Blathers, and it's retarded that you can't actually have a conversation with Isabelle or Digby. Give them all characters arcs like the Blathers and Brewster stuff from Wild World.
-Pick where Animals are allowed to move in so Biff doesn't fuck your shit by moving into the center of your town park
-Localization like the GCN game. Yes this means giving Treehouse more freedom. But the characters were way more memorable then and had more variety of things to say, even if they had the same kind of archetypes. The new character types are ok, they just need more stuff to say.
-Might be too much to ask, but some HHD functionality in mainline would be nice. I hate that someone asks me to bring them a dumbfuck kids table or something and they replace their awesome, unique-to-each-character home with a bunch of retarded shit I've given them.
-KK goes bankrupt and has to fucking play in the cafe or at the train tracks again instead of being a sellout
Having control over things in NL was nice but it's tough to balance how much control you should have over your town, since a lot of the appeal is shaping the town how you want to. Maybe you should have the option to not be a Mayor as well.
