Animal Crossing?

I've had this in my mind for some time now.

Animal Crossing is, the first time you play it, pretty rad. But it quickly loses its charm because it gets boring and repeative. Inviting friends usually helps, but this gets boring after a while aswell.

What I was thinking was an Animal Crossing MMO. I'm currently stocked on projects, but if there's enough support for this, I might start working on it after I'm done with some of my current projects.

I was thinking something equal to Animal Crossing: Wild World, but instead of inhabitants, it's actual players.

I don't doubt I could pull this off, the only hard part would be the 3d models. Either I'd require someone to make them for me, or use a 2d enviroment.

I think using a 2-D inviroment would be better, and less confusing. But this would be amazing if you could pull it off. Do you have any idea where you could get some animal crossing sprites? I do recall seeing some of the main character guy sprites somewhere in the arts board.

In specificially interested in how going from 3D to 2D would affect peoples view on the game. If I'm going to do it, I'm probably going to team with someone who would sprite most of the stuff to keep the style.

Well I am a decent spriter so if you ever need some help, I could try to do some stuff.


Heres an old sheet I have done a while ago.

eh its still all in planning stage. But it'd be nice to have some input of what you'd want in an Animal Crossing MMO!

I know it will probably be nearly impossible to do, but to chat using a mic.

Fighting.


being able to but a house or 3.

I mean fighting doesn't fit AC at all. Mic might be possible, though!

You heard about Animal Crossing: Neighborhood didn't you?
http://metaknightmare.googlepages.com/acnbooth.html

The guy never came through with the demo though... I'm not sure the project even exists.

But I could help with some stuff I guess, you're probably coding this in MMF2 so I would be no use with coding, but I could do 3D models and textures.

Yes that game was what inspired me. I doubt its ever going to be released which is why I'm going to (maybe) take things into my own hands.

Also no I think I'm going to program it in MS


Though currently MS doesn't support 3d. I'm looking into the potential of that. But having 3d models for an AC fangame would be rad. But I would imagine animations would be hard and stuff.

This post has been edited by MechaBowser on Nov 12 2008, 03:28 PM

So it'll be 2D. Cool, it can look good either way.

I think it would be fun if you could be an animal.

Not that kind of fighting, I mean like you can push players and you could yell at them. And they could yell back and just get into a fight.


Also emoticions would be nice. Like press 5 or something and a ":D" Emoticon appears. It would be a nice little addition.

Also if you could do a mic online chat like thing, could you make an example of some sort?

This post has been edited by Mr. Bird on Nov 12 2008, 03:51 PM

Haha yeah that'd actually be neat. Great suggestion.

I think this was already in Wild World, but heck it's a must!

also the fight thing is nice, though I'd imagine trolls would quickly start the fighting at everyone

Make it so they can only do it every 2 minutes or so, so people can't do it over and over. like if he pushed you, you could just walk away and he could do nothing.

Or be able to choose to turn off the ability to be pushed.

Textures are **** easy to make in Animal Crossing style, so a wide variety of facial expressions and environments would be possible.

I saw that Animal Crossing Neighborhood, too. I was hoping for a demo...
But it would be pretty cool if you made one.

Everyone could live in different towns. Like, maybe 10 or so people(depending on how many actually play) live in one town. And they all help to make it awesome. And you can move out to different towns.

Maybe...competitions between different towns?

Oh yes. That would give the fangame the unique twist that all fangames need.

I could probably rip the charecters from the n64 version if you still want?

I support!

Also if you could do Mic support, that'd be rad

uou should stil put in some NPCs cuz if no ones on it would be kinda boring.