Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer

Animal Crossing:
Happy Home Designer
US box art[2][3]
Developer(s)Nintendo EAD
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Director(s)Isao Moro
Producer(s)Hisashi Nogami
Aya Kyogoku
Programmer(s)Gentaro Takaki
Artist(s)Akiko Hirono
Writer(s)Makoto Wada
Mitsuhiro Takano
Kunio Watanabe
Composer(s)Kazumi Totaka
SeriesAnimal Crossing
Platform(s)Nintendo 3DS
Release
  • JP: July 30, 2015[1]
  • NA: September 25, 2015
  • EU: October 2, 2015
  • AU: October 3, 2015
Genre(s)Sandbox game
Mode(s)Single-player

Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer[4] is a 2015 sandbox video game developed and published by Nintendo, with assistance from Monolith Soft, for the Nintendo 3DS. The game was released in Japan in July 2015, in North America in September 2015, and in PAL regions in October 2015.[5] The game is a spin-off of the Animal Crossing series where the player designs homes for various anthropomorphic animal characters.

Happy Home Designer received mixed reviews from critics upon release; critics praised the creative freedom and improved design controls, but criticised the lack of challenge and unrewarding gameplay loop. Many also felt the game should have been downloadable content (DLC) for Animal Crossing: New Leaf instead of a standalone release. The game sold 3.04 million copies worldwide as of March 2016 and a sequel, Happy Home Paradise, was released as DLC for Animal Crossing: New Horizons on November 5, 2021.

  1. ^ Romano, Sal (May 31, 2015). "Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer Japanese release date set". Gematsu. Archived from the original on November 8, 2017. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
  2. ^ "どうぶつの森 ハッピーホームデザイナー". Nintendo. Archived from the original on October 11, 2019. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  3. ^ "Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (PAL)ー". Nintendo. Archived from the original on August 17, 2024. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  4. ^ Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (Japanese: どうぶつの森：ハッピーホームデザイナー, Hepburn: lit "Animal Forest: Happy Home Designer")
  5. ^ "Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer Announced with amiibo cards | Gamer Assault Weekly". gamerassaultweekly.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-03. Retrieved 2015-04-02.