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Show HN: A site to keep track of critters you can catch in Animal Crossing

by sawyerjhood on 4/4/20, 6:06 PM with 45 comments

  • by zuhayeer on 4/4/20, 10:14 PM

    Fun fact: Katsuya Eguchi incepted the game as a result of his move to Kyoto to work at Nintendo - because he missed his family and friends from his hometown.

    "Animal Crossing features three themes: family, friendship and community. But the reason I wanted to investigate them was a result of being so lonely when I arrived in Kyoto! Chiba is east of Tokyo and quite a distance from Kyoto, and when I moved there I left my family and friends behind. In doing so, I realised that being close to them – being able to spend time with them, talk to them, play with them – was such a great, important thing. I wondered for a long time if there would be a way to recreate that feeling, and that was the impetus behind the original Animal Crossing."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuya_Eguchi

  • by stepvhen on 4/4/20, 11:13 PM

    This looks great! I too have been working on a critter tracker[0], but writing it in C using kcgi[1] (no JS at all).

    I have never done a web project before, so this has been a great learning experience. I still have some functionality to complete, but so far it has been pretty useful, even just the "available now" feature.

    [0] https://xvetrd.tilde.institute/index.cgi

    [1] https://kristaps.bsd.lv/kcgi/

  • by resu_nimda on 4/4/20, 6:46 PM

    This triggered memories of fishing for Coelacanths in the original Gamecube Animal Crossing. Twas an amazing game, and sounds like it still is.
  • by awinder on 4/4/20, 8:43 PM

    Little off-topic but can anyone here compare to Stardew valley? I feel like I’ve kinda “finished” stardew after going through the core story and wondering about switching trains
  • by krustyburger on 4/4/20, 7:41 PM

    I’m trying to avoid looking at any outside guides for a good while, so I can experience things for myself.

    But when I eventually give in, this guide will be handy!

  • by werber on 4/4/20, 7:05 PM

    Looks great on an iphone! How did you get the pics?
  • by marinhero on 4/5/20, 12:09 AM

    Great work! I’m curious, how did you get all the critter info?
  • by 32gbsd on 4/4/20, 6:46 PM

    I get a blank white page. What tech is this coded in?
  • by bobblywobbles on 4/4/20, 6:30 PM

    Very well done website, thanks for hosting this!
  • by kevinwang on 4/5/20, 5:13 AM

    My friend also made one that shows bugs/fish available at the current hour in your timezone to practice python: http://critter-catcher.herokuapp.com/
  • by derpydev on 4/5/20, 12:53 AM

    Showed it to my wife who's been playing, and then I heard a bunch of clicking and now it's circulating in the Discord channel she hangs out in. Nice work!
  • by madrox on 4/5/20, 8:50 AM

    Thanks so much! I had a mind to work on this the other week (even started up a boilerplate) and then got distracted. So glad you stayed on task more than I did.
  • by ayberk on 4/4/20, 6:47 PM

    Great stuff, thanks a lot!

    May I ask where you get the data from?

  • by a_t48 on 4/4/20, 11:43 PM

    Is there a button to reset? I clicked on one to see what happened and now I can't undo.
  • by fourstar on 4/4/20, 7:35 PM

    This is awesome. Did you or someone else illustrate the icons? They're beautiful.
  • by max23_ on 4/5/20, 3:44 AM

    Nice work!

    I like how it is first sorted by fish/bug that will be gone next month.

  • by mikl on 4/5/20, 12:34 AM

    Very cool, just what I needed.
  • by keithwhor on 4/4/20, 6:36 PM

    This is great! Thank you.
  • by oneVoiceOnHN on 4/4/20, 10:24 PM

    This should have been built into the game. Nintendo fans are so forgiving of glaring flaws.