#yes i've included the bells on the hat this time cause why not

[jokerx-art]

Happy 26th Birthday to me~

As I've done every year since 2018, when I first created Nea, I've done something holiday related for IonNea.

And here is this year's~

[kawaoneechan]

The list of feature suggestions so far, plus my thoughts on them

Mod support (Kawa):

Obvious.

Technically ready? There's a virtual file system that lets you override any file, JSON files can be patched, and these patches can stack.

Play as an animal (Kawa, @katzeregi, @beargirlstink, @mezzofurrte, @probablynothing)

Very popular, especially playing as a cat.

May cause difficulties involving clothing.

I've had some thoughts about this that could use further input.

Romance options (Kawa)

And I do mean romance. Check your Ankha memes at the door.

Ground work is done? Villager data now includes preferences (likes boys, likes girls, likes either, likes neither). Interaction scripts, to be added later, may reference this.

More animal types (katzeregi)

Train sets (lustrous-orb)

Individual track pieces to place free-form, Minceraft style.

Way more cats (@foone, @Letrune, @gryffintheparrotcat)

Farming and Mining (bobvarioa)

Bob didn't know New Horizons introduced this.

Swim in lakes (krusebruce, Lancette2201)

Let's extend this to baths, too.

Proper jerks (ray10k)

Personality type, worse than Cranky.

Technically already in the data for PSK.

Ability to kill (delusionbait)

Denied. Even if it's a jerk.

Advanced house building (bobvarioa, 0xb00b5, howimportantisausernameanyway)

Not just extending the main room size and adding north, east, west, up, and down rooms, but having each be any reasonable size and having their own further exits.

Recycling (sweetcremereblogs)

Reverse DIY, reclaim component parts from objects.

Turn some wood into a table, take the table apart to get wood, turn it into a chair.

More personalities (razzdrgn)

See "Proper jerks" above, I guess?

More furniture (unusedcactus)

More specific dialogue (demifiendcruithne)

I may have impressed Cruithne by rambling about the dialogue substitution system in Noxico.

I mean, we should totally have that system here, too.

Denser population areas (pontaoski)

City Folk has the town area where the regular gameplay happens, and a route to a city where the stores are. That's as far as I understand it.

No wallet cap (Kawa)

Let me carry around half a million bells without losing precious inventory space to the overflow!

Content filters (yirrgzmb)

Not suggested by that name specifically — I think they meant that the romance options should be able to be turned off?

But why stop there, right? Disable jerks, disable everything but cats, disable whatever.

I've been spinning some implementation details around in my head. Also there's this post on the topic.

Changing your name (yirrgzmb)

Wear anything as a hat (@spades-gameing)

Excellent idea. And if you trip or otherwise are not upright, the item can fall off as a drop.

Streamlined inventory (@justmeemawthings)

It depends on what you mean by "streamlined", could go many directions.

More invertebrates (shrike-dyke)

Not just octopi.

Advanced designer (mikailborg)

In the sense that Mikail wants to go for the normals.

LGBTQA villagers (Letrune, shiftergirlslappy, Andrea)

Covered by the "romance options" above.

Custom map size (Kawa)

Non-realtime option (bossbutch in a fashion, jelloapocalypse on YT)

Choice of where to restart (Kawa)

When you resume the game, where do you appear? In front of your door, in your house's main room, on the last bed you used? Wherever you quit last time?

Rideable vehicles (Lancette2201)

Mock building parts (Lancette2201)

Very yes, would go well with custom-sized large maps.

Buildings for visitors (Lancette2201)

Online shopping (Lancette2201)

Use in-game laptop/desktop/whatever furniture items to acquire items, not just the ABD or whatever.

Metal detector (Lancette2201)

To find buried stuff that doesn't get a star marker.

And one new item I came up with before making this update post:

Wrench tool (Kawa)

To bolt placed items in place so you can't accidentally pick them up while aiming for a drop and ruin your build.

One problem I have with playing vidya games is that I'll want to Understand™ them on a technical level in the vague and doomed hope of making my own game like it, but with Added Stuff.

You might be aware that recently I've been playing Animal Crossing.

So recently my mind has been full of technical analyses and open implementation problems involved in making one's own AC game the way @foone is full of gender and bees.

Now, I know what I would put in if I could make my own AC game, or AC-like. I'm predictable like that. I'd add mod support and romance options.

But what would you like to see in an Animal Crossing game, fan-made or otherwise?

(in before @letrune sees this post and replies "more cats")