Happy Home Cribs: A Selection of Creepy Designs in HHD

A couple years ago we did a couple town tours for Animal Crossing: new Leaf, checking out some of the more infamous creepy towns via Dream Suite.

This year Nintendo decided we needed a little more crack cocaine for home design, and rolled out Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, where you take on the job of designing not only new facilities (shops, department store, concert hall, school, even a hotel and hospital), but design other villagers' homes with specific ideas or themes.

In this screen, the waiting room is relatively normal, though the ominous welcome mat says otherwise. One of the rooms is a doctor's exam room, where you'll see a doctor and nurse check a sick patient. One of the other new mechanics is the ability to change these "occupations" by picking them up and moving them, or even moving a character by picking them up. This is useful when you've made rooms or encounter rooms where its impossible to navigate the items. Each facility or character usually comes with unique items you can use for the themes, which are entered into your inventory. Even clothing can be entered, which can be worn later when you revisit the facility. You can't wear any other top except the HH uniform when designing, but off-hours, you can change into the many clothing items you'll accumulate.

Here's the patient's room to the hospital, which is suitably creepy with tombstones and flowers and lab bench beds. A couple skeletons decorate the place.

You can talk to some characters when sleeping, and get some amusing replies.

What a nice place! XD Its a pretty good spooky hospital. While it isn't still up, here's the code to see if it might pop up later: 0108-7739-891

Kana's School

Kana's school really drew me in from its initial pic, which had a partitioned room littered with red scrawls on jet black surfaces. These pics are usually taken during the overview after finishing a home or facility, or even taken when visiting later. Some, to create mystery, don't show you everything, and some may even be blank black pictures to entice you to visit.

I mean look at this place! @_@ I wanna eat there.

Notice the food items in the dead center of a 2 space table. This is an example of the subspace placement that's available in HHD. It almost makes me wish it was available in NL. Also the ability to pick up yourself and place them where you want can make for flush table to chair placement, like here, because otherwise you won't be able to get in.

Let's take a look at the other side of the school.

Part of the new movement animations in this game is tied to the fact that one can place items on half-spaces. If a half-space is open between objects, your character will scoot past them sideways, much like one may do when sliding through a narrow space so you don't knock something over. Its a cute animation and necessary for the new placement scale. Otherwise things would get tricky in navigating.

Animals can't do this movement, but the ability to pick them up to put them where you want like chess pieces helps with that.

Here's a lab table. There are a few littered about in the room, with stools and chairs. I made sure to seat everyone so i could walk around these narrow spaces.

Here's another look at a corner. Its hard to read the red scrawls on the walls and partitions. Patterns like these, like in NL, can be copied to your own inventory later if they're in the possession of the original creator. If they're from somewhere else, you'll have to find out the original source to get them. Still, pintrest and tumblr are full of QR codes for new patterns for clothes or tiles, so don't forget to try to look.