I'm still playing Animal Crossing: New Leaf, even though I'm not really keeping to the routine I talked about anymore. The reason for that is mainly due to the fact I've been trying to reset my regular people hours, but an embarrassing personal problem is also getting in the way. So, I still play it basically everyday, but just not always at the times I mentioned before. Anyway, right now, I'm trying to arrange my house like it's The Sims, probably because I used The Sims to help me figure out what to do with my New Leaf house. Right now, I'm waiting for either Pascal to show up in the RV Park or for the Nooklings' shop to get a large bookcase in stock so I can fill the 2x1 space along the north wall. I haven't reckoned how to simulate an NFC Reader connection so I can summon Pascal with No-Intro's amiibo archive, and actually, the shop is closed for remodelling until tomorrow. Actually, at the hour I'm writing this (02:22), everything is closed until tomorrow, except the Museum. Finally, that space over Able Sisters is getting developed, but I don't want to know what it is until I see it. I've been holding off on doing any extensive reading about New Leaf so I can be surprised when I discover new things happening. For instance, I traded in a lucky ticket for a New Nintendo 3DS and discovered the Animal Crossing Puzzle League side-game. I was a little disappointed to see it was just another clone of Panel de Pon/Wario's Woods, but I didn't really have any expectations here.
An interesting side-effect of arranging furniture in New Leaf: it's made me better able to optimise space in The Sims (meaning The Sims 1, that is... hey, incidentally, there's a Sims 1 repack now, so there's no reason you can't play this game, even on Linux). You can't build walls in New Leaf, which complicates bathrooms a bit, but it turns out that New Leaf and The Sims use basically the same grid system. I've been trying too hard to build real spaces for the past 15 or so years, but New Leaf is helping me unlearn some of the inadvertent architecture lessons I took, being a student of design at the Maxis School of Building. Using New Leaf as a model, I built a streamlined, functional 8x8 house, pictured here. It doesn't look any good from outside, of course, being it's just a box, but it's closer to how I used to build stuff back in the day when §20.000 wasn't enough to do anything with. If I could find something else to do with the bathroom area, I could build this in New Leaf and it would make sense. I might do that, if there's a kitchen counter hidden in that game anywhere. Also, I've been toying with the idea of making over my whole living space into something like a mall food court, using the Arcade Machine I got as a consolation prize for finding an unlucky Lucky Ticket, the Pinball Machine that fell out of a tree while I was searching for bees, the Capsule Toy Dispenser that Marcie Wallaby gave me for complimenting her décor, and the Gumball Machine that I can get from Jack at the RV Park. That's going to need a little more planning before I can go anywhere with that idea, and it might even require Happy Home Designer so I can see what my options are in the "Mall at Home" aesthetic.