names, themes, and whatnot (advice + sharing)

[kaylsx]

i'm working on revitalizing my towns right now and i'm trying to plan -- and i always process things better verbally/written/with others.

feel free to give advice, or just share your own!

the drizzly town of pouring -- a pretty traditional rainy/forest town, in my opinion. slightly "mysterious", but nothing super spooky. utilizes a lot of dropped items - mostly gyroids, some un-Blather'd fossils, gems, and fruits baskets. flowers are white, purple, and blue. (there's 3 black flowers scattered around town!) pwp's include stonehenge, the tablet, the statue fountain, and the lamppost. (still, still, STILL waiting for the bus stop. ugh.)

mayor's name is raine -- their house is fully expanded except for no back room. main room is a living room / front room, left is a library, right is a guest room, upstairs is raine's bedroom, and downstairs is currently a flower shop / cafe, which will be transferred over to the other house i'm creating. (i don't know what i want to do with this house, ugh!!!)

the next two characters i want to create, i don't know!! i like the name picnic for some reason, but it doesn't really fit. i want the two characters to be "roommates", with the smaller house being abandoned. the main house will be the flower shop/cafe on the entire first floor, with a shared studio apartment upstairs. the basement might be a (themed) storage room of some kind?? other names i'm considering are daisy, lavender, maru, lamb/lamby, and rhoades.

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the silent town of bell hill --- i'm really torn on this town!! i really want to do another nature/forest town, but darker and more mystical. still, i don't know what to do. this is my digital copy of the game and i keep working on it and then deleting. right now, the mayor is named basil, and i think keeping herbal names would be cool still? (so rosemary, thyme, mint, sorrel, sage, etc.

i like the challenge, personally, of making smaller, really homey houses, as well as not using a ton of "modern" items (not as in the actual modern series, but like, not using big flat screen tvs, or not leaving the wiiu/ds items out when updating lol-- a very vintage and low-tech aesthetic).


idk??? what do y'all do?!

 

[Croconaw]

I like water park, spa, or island resort themed towns! Those types of towns always look very nice to me! I find myself more interested in the interior design because the houses almost always go with the town theme. I like houses based off of hotels and stores! I?ve seen houses and rooms turned into hospitals, kitchens, and even gamerooms. Some of the arcade ones were pretty cool. It?s always nice to go out of the original Animal Crossing sets (cabin series, cabana series, regal series, kiddie series, etc.) and create our own rooms. Even if the Happy Room Academy hates our style, it still looks cool to us.

I hate the Happy Room Academy...

 

[kaylsx]

bump!

 

[Khaelis]

I recently restarted my town and named it Laelia, which is a genus of the orchid flower. I've always loved flowers in real life, and orchids are one of those exotic flowers I really enjoy to look at. While the town itself isn't really based off a theme, I do want to make a lot of my town look like a nice garden.

 

[Pansear-and-Nana]

Towns of lore, no matter the genre, will always be my most favorite kinds of towns. Although Pinwheel itself isn?t really a lore town, it?s based on my series. Some of the main characters live in Pinwheel, while some live in Hathfur. Unfortunately, I could not keep all main characters in my town due to the villager maximum rule, so each of my playable character houses have pictures of all major, secondary and notable minor characters. Pinwheel is more of a reference-to-lore town than just a lore town mixed with forest features. Although my animal villager houses are very inaccurate to the story, it helps if I just design their houses in happy home designer for reference.

Pinwheel is currently 25% finished. There?s still some villagers I need to get, some pwps i need to make, some houses I need to develop, lots of pictures I need to get, qr paths that I need to construct and of course it needs more vegetations such as trees and bushes. There will be landmarks that are referenced to appear in my comics. Hathfur is involved but since the town isn?t mine, I don?t consider part of it as my completion for Pinwheel, so in other words I won?t touch it because that?s Maui?s deal.

 

[vvindows98]

your towns sound so cool! i wanna visit, do you have dream addresses for them yet? c:

anyway, my town Cryptid is a nature/forest town!! it's still a work in progress, i'd say 3/4 finished. flowers are mostly orange and black, with some white. PWPs include stonehenge, totem pole, water pump, weather shelter thing and a bunch of wooden signposts/lamps. i only update the DA when it's raining and i need 2 take some screenshots, i'll post them here eventually!

 

[cavityprince]

your towns sound so cool! i wanna visit, do you have dream addresses for them yet? c:

anyway, my town Cryptid is a nature/forest town!! it's still a work in progress, i'd say 3/4 finished. flowers are mostly orange and black, with some white. PWPs include stonehenge, totem pole, water pump, weather shelter thing and a bunch of wooden signposts/lamps. i only update the DA when it's raining and i need 2 take some screenshots, i'll post them here eventually!

wow, this sounds ridiculously cool!! i can't wait to unlock the dream suite so i can visit ^^

 

[Iced_Holly]

I only restarted my game a couple weeks ago, but Sunfall is essentially divided into two areas - the residential section, which houses all my villagers and buildings, and will one day have a little park right by the plaza, while the other side of the river where the RV campsite is located will be a secluded nature retreat with the campsite and PWPs that fit with the theme such as the hammock, log bench and the like, with a wooden bridge leading to a zen hot springs surrounded by bamboo.

 

[Aeikurin]

Solitude has always been a quiet town bursting full of red, pink, yellow, purple, and orange flowers, with a hint of magic in the air. However, villagers are starting to notice something dark happening. Ever since a resident witch has moved in, black flowers are starting to appear in some of the forests surrounding it. There are mostly natural paths, with plenty of water and drains scattered around. Hibiscus, hydrangea, and sweet olive bushes grow everywhere.

Now on to towns I like. I'm a sucker for pretty rainy forest towns, and forest towns in general lol. I'm not really a fan of the pink aesthetic although I do admit it looks well done when the effort is put in. Towns with a story or the ones where you have to solve some kind of mystery are so fun too. My previous towns used to have more of a story, so this one feels underdeveloped. I also like winter themed towns, the music is so peaceful when it snows, and I think the aesthetic of snow covered trees and bushes just matches it so well.