Product Overview

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) is a real-time social simulation video game released in March 2020, developed by Nintendo. The narrative invites players to an unknown deserted island and the main goal is to set up a bustling community by using the resources available to transform your island into a resort getaway, attracting cute lovable animal characters to move in as neighbors in the process. We designed a unique extension to the game, by introducing a Tools Manager. This was created as a part of a project module in Digipen Institute of Technology where we had to work in teams of 6 to enhance the user experience of an existing game by making a prototype.

Product Vision

Despite the initial success of the game during its release amidst the pandemic, the original game still possesses several user-related issues which are yet to be resolved, that are much desired by its player base. Hence, we devised a solution, the Tools Manager, to provide players with the durability status of their items, to know whether they need to craft or repair at the shortest notice.

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End Product: User survey, User Persona, User Task Flow,  Medium-Fidelity mock-up and Hi-Fidelity mock-up

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