Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Made the player mayor, adding town-shaping goals that turned a cult life sim into a hit.

Released 2012 Developer Nintendo EAD Publisher Nintendo Platform Nintendo 3DS Genre Life simulation Era Digital storefronts & indie Website nintendo.co.jp ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Animal Crossing: New Leaf inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Day/Night Cycle ~~1983~~NPC Daily Schedules ~~1992~~Internet Client-Server Play ~~1996~~Direct Touch Manipulation ~~2005~~

The Animal Crossing series in this dataset

2001

Animal Crossing ~~2001~~

2012

Animal Crossing: New Leaf ~~this page~~

2020

Animal Crossing: New Horizons ~~2020~~

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