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Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer

Another week, another update for Collectible Badge Center. Nintendo updated the Japanese 3DS application with badges based on Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer.

Fans can decorate their 3DS home menu with fourteen panels of badges, including popular characters such as Isabelle, Lottie, Goldie, and Villager – not to mention various in-game items. Collectible Badge Center also have access to three panels of pixelated beetles and one free go.

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The Villager amiibo from the Smash Bros. line unlocks a little something special in Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer. By using the figure, players are given a gold trophy. This is the only amiibo from the Smash Bros. line that we hear works with Happy Home Designer thus far.

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With the release of Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer in Japan, we’re able to look at some of the game’s features in-depth. Above you can see what sort of skin tone options are included.

We also have shots showing the hair and eye options in Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer. Aside from that, there’s confirmation that the title features 48 emotions (eight more than New Leaf).

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Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer launched in Japan today. You’ll find 39 minutes of footage from the game below.

We previously posted Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer’s North American boxart. Now you can have a look at the European packaging above.

Nintendo is going all out for the European launch of Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer. The game is receiving new hardware bundles, cover plates and amiibo cards.

Nintendo is offering one special amiibo card with a limited number of copies when Happy Home Designer launches on October 2. There will also be additional amiibo cards that are being sold separately in packs of three. All packs will always come with a special card, which features a character whose house you won’t be able to build without using its amiibo card.

Other releases planned for Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer in Europe include:

· New Nintendo 3DS + Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer Pack: a white New Nintendo 3DS system with a digital copy of Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer* , a unique set of cover plates** and one special amiibo card

· New Nintendo 3DS XL Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer Edition: a white New Nintendo 3DS XL system with a unique, game-themed cover design, a digital copy of Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer* and one special amiibo card

· Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer + NFC Reader/Writer Pack: a physical copy of the Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer game, one special amiibo card and the NFC Reader/Writer accessory

· Standalone NFC Reader/ Writer accessory

· New Nintendo 3DS cover plates No. 5 (featuring K.K. Slider), 6 (featuring Isabelle) and 27 (featuring a variety of animals from the series).

· Series 1 Animal Crossing amiibo cards Pack: each pack contains 1 special amiibo card and 2 regular amiibo cards)

Today’s full announcement is posted after the break.

Nintendo is planning two collaborations for Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer. In Japan, players will be able to participate in opportunities from Monster Hunter and 7-Eleven.

With the Monster Hunter collaboration, a new Felyne character will be available. Players will be able to obtain different items in relation to Capcom’s famous series.

7-Eleven’s collaboration also provides players with a new character known as 7 Gou. This event gives items based on the store as well. It’s possible to participate in the 7-Eleven collaboration by visiting a local store and using a hotspot.

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A preview of Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer from Nintendo Life shares the latest details about the game. You’ll find an information summary below.

– Game features a hub like the City found from the Animal Crossing: City Folk
– Your office is here, and it’s where the action is
– There are public facilities like restaurants, shops and hospitals that can be built over time
– These are managed by your assistant Isabel
– Hub expands as you progress
– Players have a job, and the job is what you do
– In charge of planning, designing and decorating homes for the numerous animals who demand your services
– Animals are random
– They can be found wandering the central hub
– Approach them and accept their request to initiate the project
– Set up a meeting in your office in order to advance the process
– First need to choose a section of the map
– Each has their own terrain and characteristics
Ex: may choose to give your customer a lovely beachside home or one that sits on the edge of a river bank
– Can choose the “Season” as well
– Let an animal live in all-round scorching summer or perpetual winter
– Can then begin designing the actual house
– Pick from an ever increasing selection of wall materials, roof types, doors and fences
– Next, you can decorate the inside and outside of the home
– Choose from features such as swimming pools or sand pits
– The catalog of furniture and house styles is limited to begin with
– After taking a request from a critter, the relevant “set” for the request becomes available
– Clients will have a number of items awaiting unboxing when you begin a redesign that must be incorporated into the overall design
– Study “courses” at your desk
– Exchange these for play coins
– Courses can teach you the ability to add more forms of decorations to your home designs, such as “ceiling decorations”
– After fulfilling a request and the critter in question is satisfied, they move into their new home and your job is complete
– Have a “working day” instead of the “real-time clock” system
– Once your tasks are complete, day turns to night
– You can choose to end the working day
– Greater control over your appearance from the start
– Choose skin color, animal’s clothes, assign “roles”
– Certain animals can be chosen to teach in the nearby school, or work behind the counter in the café
– Arrange homes and public buildings into miniature diorama like scenes
– The animals will accept any design created for them
– When designing a home, there is virtually no limit to what you can do
– Furniture doesn’t need to be bought, bells don’t need to be spent, and your only worry is running out of floor space
– Use an Animal Crossing amiibo card to make an animal instantly available for a home re-model
– Cards also act as a gateway to invite animals into other animals homes or public facilities
– Ex: while visiting Teddy after a successful remodel, scanning in Stitches would see him drop by for a visit

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A new video has come in showing 8 minutes of footage from Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer. Take a look at it below.

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In the upcoming Animal Crossing spin-off game Happy Home Designer it will be quite easy to share screenshots from the game. In addition to sharing pictures via various social media sites, which was something you could do in New Leaf, it will also be possible to post directly to Miiverse from within the game without having to return to the home menu. While this is a common feature in Wii U games these days, it hasn’t been used in a 3DS game before.

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