"Let he who has only played 8 hours of Animal Crossing cast the first Megathread"
-Nook 8:7We've moved!
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Screenshots shown are all from Animal Crossing: New Leaf
What is Animal Crossing?Animal Crossing is a series of games in which the player takes the role of a human player moving into a town populated by people-like animals. Gameplay is extremely laid back and consists of doing various activities around town, such as fishing, conversing with the other town residents, and gathering fruit. There are no set goals, though your neighbors may give you small tasks to complete upon speaking with them, which are often met with rewards in the form of customization items. Selling spare items and objects you find around town give you money to purchase new clothes, furniture, accessories, and more. Certain items, primarily clothing, can also be designed by the player. Players can visit each other's towns over wireless and wi-fi to socialize, trade items, and explore. Animal Crossing games run in real time, which means different things happen at different times on different days during different parts of the year.
A lot of people say that Animal Crossing is not a game you can have someone describe to you and decide whether you'll like it or not. Many find themselves enjoying it despite how boring it sounds, and suggest that playing it is really the only way you'll know for sure. "I never thought I'd actually have fun grinding for money", says twitch.tv streamer Ryxos.
Animal Crossing: New LeafThe newest installment of the Animal Crossing series has recently come to the Nintendo 3DS and has several new features. Hamsters and deer are two new species added to the potential resident roster, as are the personalities "smug" and "uchi"/"big sister". Customization has been expanded; now including pants, shirts, shoes, hats, accessories, furniture (items can now be hung on walls), and house exteriors, as well as new town-based customization options due to the player being proclaimed the town mayor. Designs for various items and clothing can be "downloaded" by using the 3DS camera to read generated QR Codes. Screenshots can be taken at any time and are allegedly able to be uploaded directly to Twitter or Tumblr from the 3DS. There are many other small features that have been added, but you'll have to find those out for yourself!
EventsThere seem to be items that you can get at the Post Office during certain periods of time, so these'll be posted here for future reference. They're being referred to as "DLC" though as well, so I'm not really sure what to call them.
Feel free to post your Friend Codes and arrange town visits in this thread if you need to.
For a full list of Codes for the users on this forum you should use the
Nintendo Friend Code Catalog.
Make sure you post your FC there, too, to keep it up-to-date!
What do you all think of having a list of people's forum names paired with their character/town names for easier recognition?
DesignsAfter a week of playing New Leaf, you can export and import designs for clothing and other items using QR codes and the 3DS camera. Make sure you
talk to Sable in the clothing store at least once a day for a week to unlock the machine that lets you create and scan QR codes. Here I'll be putting designs that people here have made, as well as various codes from around the internet. You can also find plenty of patterns to download by simply Googling "animal crossing new leaf qr codes".
From around the netAlbum 1: Various clothing (referential and original), wallpapers, paintings, and carpetsAlbum 2: Same as Album 1, mostly referential clothing
ToolsMassive list of referential Town TunesTurn images into a paint-by-number for patternsi.nintendo.net - Access from your 3DS browser to upload images to Twitter & tumblrGuide to Redd's Gallery - Never buy a fake painting againNew Leaf Feng Shui Guide
Sorry in advance for any mistakes or incorrect information, New Leaf is my first AC game so most of my information is from somewhat hasty research rather than personal experience. Let me know if there's anything I got wrong or if you can think of anything that would benefit this thread as a whole. Thanks!
