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animal_crossing
📅 Updated:2025-10-31
🕒 Created:2011-09-03
🆔 ID:2442
Description
Animal Crossing, also known as Doubutsu no Mori (Animal Forest) in Japan, is a series of life/social simulation games developed and published by Nintendo in which the player as a human lives in a village inhabited by anthropomorphic animals. These games contain open-ended gameplay and rely on internal clocks and calendars to simulate and track actual passage of time, having things such as holidays, special events, birthdays and the like taking place.
The series contains many characters, most of which are the neighboring animals (totaling 300+ characters since the latest main installment, New Horizons). There are also major characters who often have unique species attributed to them, such as moles.
Characters
Text container tagging guidelines
- Animal Crossing styled text containers should be treated as a text box by default unless there are traits more common to a speech bubble (such as a tail) present.
- Options associated with a text box should be tagged as text box prompt.
- The colored region in the top-left containing the name of the character should be tagged as both header and header box.
- Text within Animal Crossing text containers will nearly always be dialogue, and should be tagged as such.
- Common text traits include highlighted text regions, and addressing characters by name. Keep in mind that a term such as "mayor" is an occupation, not a name.
- Options associated with a text box should be tagged as text box prompt.
- The colored region in the top-left containing the name of the character should be tagged as both header and header box.
- Text within Animal Crossing text containers will nearly always be dialogue, and should be tagged as such.
- Common text traits include highlighted text regions, and addressing characters by name. Keep in mind that a term such as "mayor" is an occupation, not a name.
