{"id":716,"date":"2017-09-25T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/video_fan-made_showcase_illustrates_the_potential_of_animal_crossing_on_switch"},"modified":"2017-09-25T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T15:45:00","slug":"video-fan-made-showcase-illustrates-the-potential-of-animal-crossing-on-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/25\/video-fan-made-showcase-illustrates-the-potential-of-animal-crossing-on-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Fan-Made Showcase Illustrates The Potential Of Animal Crossing On Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Long-time readers of the site make recall that we covered Josh &#8220;Bit Block&#8221; Thomas&#8217; previous efforts in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2016\/06\/video_these_fan-made_concepts_for_splatoon_animal_crossing_and_mario_kart_should_give_nintendo_pause_for_thought\">&#8220;Make Believe&#8221; series<\/a> of YouTube videos, where he creates his own assets to show how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2015\/12\/video_this_is_the_animal_crossing_wii_u_game_wed_hoped_for\">future Nintendo titles<\/a> could look.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s retooled the format to focus around static, mocked-up shots and has created a surprisingly fleshed out part of a possible future <strong>Animal Crossing<\/strong> game, focused on a fishing mini-game. The level of depth is stunning; it&#8217;s not hard to believe that these screens could be taken from an official video game (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/06\/video_anatomy_of_a_fake_creator_of_leaked_smash_bros_switch_screens_speaks_out\">a trick Thomas has pulled before<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Animal Crossing has become one of Nintendo&#8217;s most important franchises, scoring million-selling hits on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/ds\/animal_crossing_wild_world\">DS<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/animal_crossing_new_leaf\">3DS<\/a>. We already know that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/animal_crossing\">smartphone title<\/a> is one the way, but the inevitable Switch release could be one of the console&#8217;s biggest releases yet, if the life-consuming 3DS entry, <strong>New Leaf<\/strong>, is anything to go by.<\/p>\n<p>Let us know what you make of this fan-made take on Animal Crossing by posting a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Long-time readers of the site make recall that we covered Josh &#8220;Bit Block&#8221; Thomas&#8217; previous efforts in the &#8220;Make Believe&#8221; series of YouTube videos, where he creates his own assets to show how future Nintendo titles could look. He&#8217;s retooled the format to focus around static, mocked-up shots and has created a surprisingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}