🏳️‍🌈funkytown🏳️‍🌈

[joeycon]

Gotta make a move to a town that's right for you!

Funkytown Official Journal
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We are an urban paradise that lights up brighter at nightfall. This island took a long time to complete, as I also decided to utilize extra profiles on my Switch to create many indoor house spaces to make: a school, a mall, and a "Disney Store" to show off my custom designs! I actually recently finished it just before finding this lovely forum, and to be honest it'll probably still see some fine tuning. I'll always be looking for new ways to make it better and prettier.

When I got the game back in May of last year, I didn't really know for sure what I wanted, just that I wanted to change the island's layout. I named it "funkytown" mostly on a fluke, I kinda assumed someone had already taken it. But nope! After listening to the song Funkytown by Lipps Inc over and over again to come up with ideas, and googling custom path designs I realized I really liked the idea of an urban design to make the island feel more lived in and populated. I also liked the idea of a "bustling nightlife" vibe. I figured trying to make it look like an actual metropolitan city would involve doing a lot of layout altering, and I still wanted a wilderness area, so I just decided to work with buildings that them game already gives you instead of using panels and custom designs to mimic buildings.

I also wanted to use indoor spaces to conserve outdoor space, and because I wanted to use indoor furnishing, wallpaper, and hangings to make these spaces. I'll elaborate more when I get into their own entries. I used two buildings to create the school, and two buildings for the mall and Disney Store. The school took a considerable amount of time to build, mostly because it required a LOT of time travel to speed up the process of purchasing many of the same furnishings (desks, computers, lockers, etc.), but the mall was specifically a big task. It required the most time and effort to trade around with the community. A lot of Nookazon, Treasure Islands, and Discord to find just the basics. But all in all, I'm proud of the progress and I can't wait to show everything off!

Next few entries will be about explaining the island layout and each of the buildings I made. Stay tuned ​

 

[joeycon]

Entry #2 Island Layout

I started off, basically with this layout, and I knew from the beginning that I wanted to expand the mainland area. I also realized pretty quickly that making waterfalls was nice. However, I still wanted a wilderness/campground area where I could have plentiful trees, flowers, and fruits to pick for easy nook miles. Also, I realized I still needed rivers/ponds for catching specific fish. All in all it was a bit tricky to work everything I wanted together and make it work.

I eventually concluded that what worked best was to split two distinct halves: the northside would be more open space and naturey, the southside would be the bustling mainland with paved asphalt roads. The mainland took some time to develop structurally but it ended taking a nice form. The mainland has all of the shops, the museum, the bar, the mall area, the school, and all of my top priority favorite villagers (The Squad lol). The northside has all of my waterfalls, the campground, the meadow where I set up a nice little picnic, a tunnel leading to Redd's hideout, my house, and the Bay where a few villagers are situated.

THE MAINLAND:
Town Square
This is the entry way y'all will walk into when you come through the airport! We have the museum, Nook's Cranny, and Able Sisters right here, and unsurprisingly is where most of the activity is as far as foot traffic goes. I pass neighbors here all the time while I'm doing my NM routine. I hang up a lot of my designs in Able's but we'll get to the Disney Store items in due time.

Main Plaza

The Rainbow Pave
No idea how else to explain this, but I honestly think this is the best area of the whole island. It's just a small courtyard where I placed different floor light colors to make the entire pavement light up. It's a great spot to take a selfie and it was a lot of fun collecting the different rainbow colors.

Dog Park

Pride Garden
These flowers took forever to collect and grow, and I did it for pride month 2020, and I suffered through my little cousins running over them a million times please appreciate my garden

Pumpkin Patch
Hopefully we get more vegetables and such so that I can make this a formal farm. I love the pumpkins but that's kinda all it's good for right now.

The Electric Chapel Bar
This is a remnant from the island's early days but I always wanted an outdoor bar area so I did what I could to keep it to the end. Named after one of my favorite Lady Gaga songs, it took me ages to find the DIY for the hula girl, the coconut juice, and the fruit water dispenser. When the festivale was added to the game it gave me an opportunity to add a little more flare as well. The dancefloor used to look dull.

Friendly Neighbors on the Mainland:
- Raymond
- Bree
- Cherry
- Phoebe
- Octavian

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[joeycon]

Entry #3: Island Layout Part 2
FIONA FALLS:
My beautiful waterfall that took a long time to complete lol

Lighthouse Estate
My house. It has a library, greenhouse, bathroom, master bedroom and a couple living rooms

THE FOREST:
Probably the most untouched area of the island, layout-wise. I always wanted a meadow area for picnic-ing and this always seemed like the great place to settle on. Campground area is a bit smaller than I would like, but all in all it's all good. I also made a tunnel with the Super Mario brick blocks that leads to Redd's hideout, I'm particularly proud of it.

Beekeeper's Peak

Bamboo Maze
It took so long to grow all the bamboo I ended up using, but I love it and I love the location I picked for it.

Meadow

The Campground

Friendly Neighbors in the Forest:
- Rocco ​