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Show HN: I made an Animal Crossing style letter editor acmail.idreesinc.com

I made a simple open-source letter editor inspired by Animal Crossing NH. Took me forever to look over each card, but I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. You can even click the bottle in the bottom right to see a random letter design shared by other users! Now to see how long it stays up...

Check out the source code here: https://github.com/IdreesInc/Animal-Crossing-Letter-Generato...


jeff-hykin23 minutes ago

For a full experience, you could combine this with animalese! A library that makes animal crossing talking sounds in the browser. https://github.com/jeff-hykin/animalese

siliconpotato2 hours ago

stationary means not-moving

stationery means envelopes and letters and stuff. you can remember this as "E for envelope"

Multicomp2 hours ago

I was just able to write a thank you letter to my sister for having me over to her house last night using this and having sent her that letter I leave very impressed.

I know she will enjoy it because we both have loved animal crossing since the original US version came out and we were given a copy in 2005.

Thank you for making such a delightful tool that both works with the nostalgia of those game consoles, yet has a much better UX for mobile phone use!

viraptor5 hours ago

An older version (and lots of other pixel-perfect customisable screens) is also available from the Death Generator: https://deathgenerator.com/#acww

kaeruct3 hours ago

To be fair that's not the same at all. This one looks like the message boxes that appear during gameplay, while the submission is only about the letters you can send/receive in the game.

They complement each other nicely though.

0rangemang03 hours ago

This was really fun, and instantly brought me back to my island. The share message function is also super cute, but looking at the code, all the bottle messages seem to be preprogrammed in bottles.json?

I guess moderation would be a nightmare. Are the bottle messages actually stored or sent anywhere?

deadbabe3 hours ago

The messages are suspiciously wholesome, I don’t think they are from other users at all.

0rangemang0an hour ago

Yeah all the messages you get are preprogrammed from a bottles.json file. At first I was pleasantly surprised at how wholesome the messages were..

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cybrjoe3 hours ago

this is super cute. i’m going to use it for notes to my kids. thanks for creating it!

sakesun4 hours ago

Love this ♡ Thanks for building it.

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