Some ideas I’ve seen from other people:
Ability to travel, similar to traveling to the Island but to different places, including:
A forest campsite, with your own RV or Tent. (Maybe there could be games similar to the Island Tours here, and the ability to find mushrooms year round.)
A bigger beach with a stall to buy Ice Cream, Lollipops, Drinks, and Hot Dogs. Maybe like a boardwalk? With a ferris wheel! Or a roller coaster! Combining this with the carnival idea, maybe make a huge Circus you can go visit, with rides and carnival games where you can win stuffed animals or collect Tickets (Maybe even MEOW coupons!)
Travel to the town you build in Happy Home Designer, by linking the games together.
Visit your In-game parents! Go visit your “hometown” and say hello to them! It would be nice to see what your “mom and dad” look like according to how you make your character appear! OR maybe they can come visit you and you can show them around the town and let them comment on how well you’re doing! I know for a lot of people who play the animal crossing games their irl parents aren’t super supportive, so maybe having your “mom” come see you and tell you how proud she is of you wouldbe nice.
Credit to @nova-crossing:
Send letters to your friends without having to visit their towns, maybe set up an “email” where you can log onto the WiFi and send them to your friends via spotpass.
More colors for flowers! I personally have been trying to make a rainbow of Tulips but there’s no green so it’s incomplete. Maybe expand the hybrid options to include more shades. Green and Teal were suggested by Nova, I’d also like to see more shades of Pink.
Credit to @akmazianisgay:
More variation in town structure, rather than the town with a river and a beach, maybe a town with more rivers, or a town where you have little bridges leading to the areas where houses are built. A mountain town with cliffs. A larger beach town. More diversity.
Windy days where the trees shake and the Bell PWPs chime. Have villagers comment on wind (”Wow it sure is breezy today!” “I feel like I’m going to get blown away!”).
More types of flowers! Bellionare said Sunflowers and Water Lilies. I’d like to see Tigerlilies, Chrysanthemums, and Marigolds.
More conversation options! (This goes along with my earlier ideas of being able to invite Villagers yourself instead of having to wait for them to invite you.)
Key phrases in letters that make Villagers respond a certain way. I.E. “How are you?” = “I’m doing well!” or “I’m feeling sick.” / “Did you have fun at *X event*?” = “Yes I did!” or “I wanted more *blank*.” / “Want to come over on X/XX?” = “I’ll be there!” or “I can’t make it, maybe another day!”
I’ve seen this a lot, bring back the Constellations! Celeste is adorable, and she definitely deserves more love.
Send mail to NPCs, like fanmail to KK Slider. (That’s a super cute idea!)
Grass as a plantable item. Similar to bushes but you can walk through it. In that strain, maybe a wheat field? or a cornfield? Since you could walk through it normally you could make a cornmaze! Fun for fall and festival themed towns!
Fruit bushes in addition to fruit trees, Strawberries, Blackberries, Raspberries, etc.
Villagers that are initially cold or mean that you have to become friends with gradually. (I personally like that the Villagers are all nice, so maybe have this as a Title menu option you could turn on or off? Put down as “Tougher Villager Interactions.”)
A hide-and-seek competition! Maybe after you’ve played hide-and-seek enough times they decide to have a tourney! And the ability to let YOU hide would be nice.
Give Isabelle a break! Or a day off! Poor puppy works too hard.
A icon in your Encyclopedia that shows if you’ve donated already. Like a star, or even a stamp of Blathers. (FANTASTIC IDEA!)
A library PWP on Main Street, with a Librarian that either likes you if you’re quiet (walk slowly, etc.) or scolds you if you’re loud (running, emoting, etc). Adding onto this, the ability to check out books with short stories inside that your Mayor can read. Maybe a bug collecting book that makes more rare bugs appear for 24 hours after you read the book. Or a gardening book that boosts your chance or hybrids/perfect fruits. Etc. And fines if you don’t “return” the book after a week.
PWPs for the beach specifically, like beach umbrellas or a seaside shop/restaurant.
Credit to @crystal-village:
Gyroid Exhibit! (GREAT IDEA. As much as I personally don’t really like gyroids, I would be more willing to collect them if I could build an exhibit with them!)
Houses for the NPCs that you can visit. (Maybe all the NPCs live in an apartment building, or a small development you can reach by walking off Main Street?)
Villagers interacting with their homes/items more like they do in HHD
Bring back the UFO event (I don’t know what that is but I’d love to see it!)
More character editing. Freckles and Eyebrows. More hairstyles (I AGREE).
Height and Weight options. (I can see why this isn’t an option now, but maybe in a later game they can swing it :])
Newspapers (like the bulletin board, only you can have it delivered to you?)
More ideas that I have had ( @calicoscrossing ):
A credit card that links straight to your bell account so you don’t have to carry around 10 bags of coins to buy one of Gracie’s pieces. Maybe make it like a real card and charge a “monthly fee” of 5 bells.
Bigger flower patch PWPs. The 4 plot one is nice, but they should have a 9 and 16 plot option too so you can make a nice big flower garden in your town.
When you lay down in your bed at home you should get the option to take a nap and have a short “dream” mini-game, like cloud hopping or flying or other silly stuff, with a special emote if you “fail” where you wake with a start and a popping dream balloon. (Kind of like the dream games in Tomodachi Life.)
A writer NPC that hangs out in the Library or at Brewster’s, and when you speak to them they ask for help writing their story. After you help them a few times they thank you and maybe a week later you get a letter saying they got the story published and inside is a bag of bells as a thank you? Or a copy of the book.
Create your own town events! This would be hard I know, but maybe you want to celebrate a big thing you did IRL so you ask Isabelle to plan a small event in town where the Villagers can come congratulate you. (Example: You graduate high school, so you select “Graduation” from the list of “Event Starters.” Villagers say things like “You worked so hard, congrats!” “I’m so proud you stuck with it!” “You’re on to bigger and better things!”) Just a small thing in town square with balloons that you can pick the color of and a generic banner that says “Congrats!” or something like that. On a sadder note you could have an event after the death of a loved one where the Villagers come and comfort you. (Example: Select “Loss” and there’s black balloons and the Villagers all dress in black and say things like, “I’m sorry for your loss.” “It’s ok to be sad.” “I’ll cry with you if you need it.”)
A FLASHLIGHT. For when you’re walking around at night. Have levels like with other tools. Basic Flashlight casts a small beam of light, but flickers occasionally and after 6 hours of use the batteries die and you have to get a new one. Silver Flashlight lasts 12 hours and casts a stronger/wider beam of light. Gold Flashlight could be more like a lantern and casts a bright circle of light and never runs out of power. Drawbacks of the flashlight: Scares away fish and bugs.
If there are any ideas on this list you would like to see DRAWN, please please please message me and let me know! I will happily doodle out ideas! I will be drawing a lot of these anyway, but requests will be given priority! :)
Here is an example of my work!
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