Roadmap
Phase 1 is done. Here is everything that shipped, and what comes next.
Phase 1
Done-
Full web port of the game
The whole GameCube ROM, in your browser.
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Cloud saves
Sign in and your town follows you to any device.
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HD texture packs
Drop in a Dolphin-format .zip from Options → Load HD Texture Pack.
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Multiplayer
Town visits are live. Ride the train to a friend's town and play together.
Phase 2
Done-
Town map editor
Build a town layout tile by tile in your browser, then walk it in-game.
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Character editor
Pick a new face, skin tone or gender at any time, and see it before you save.
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Edit your town while you walk it
Change the town from inside the game.
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Animal Crossing+ (QOL mods)
Quality-of-life tweaks on top of the original, already live, with more on the way:
- Sit on rocks & stumps
- Drop & place furniture, gyroids, and clothes as their real 3D models
- 360° camera and first-person view
- Improved lighting and visual effects (opt-in)
- A barber shop and a flower shop to build in your town, and in the City
- Lay your own designs on the ground as paths
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Multiplayer improvements
More of the town syncs on a visit, and more of what you do together is saved, already live, with more on the way:
- A second friend can visit while the first is still there
- Your friend arrives by train and steps off it at your station
- Villagers and shopkeepers walk, talk and serve both of you, shops included
- Tree shakes, digs, drops and whatever is in your hands show on both screens
- A visit saves every ten seconds, and a short drop keeps what you did
- Friends see your real animations, sounds, clothes and what you are holding
- Villagers remember friends who visit, and events and the radio exercise run together
- Hosts choose what visitors may do, and closing your town gives them a last train
- A friends list with friend codes, and text chat in visits and the City
- Nine reactions that everyone nearby sees
Phase 3
Later-
Cloud mailbox
Write a letter, send it to any town. Letters cross between players asynchronously.
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The City
A shared town where everyone online can hang out together, by train from your station.
Have an idea for what comes next? Suggest it and vote on the feedback board.
Everything that has shipped is written up in the release notes.