arobase-che / ac-keijiban

Bulletin board from Animal Crossing API for Node projects.

AC-Keijiban

Sends a random message from the Animal Crossing: Wild World video game on Nintend DS created by Katsuya Eguchi and published in 2005.

The quotes come from three types of board message:

• "Message of the Week"
• "Poetry"
• "Talking to Myself"

Installation

You have to add this module to your NPM project folder.

$ npm install ac-keijiban

Example

Importing the module

// Require with a language (format xx)
const acKeijiban = require('ac-keijiban')('en');
// Require with a language (format xx-YY) sets 'en'(format xx)
const acKeijiban = require('ac-keijiban')('en-US')
// Require without an argument sets 'en'
const acKeijiban = require('ac-keijiban')();

Displaying a random "Message of the Week"

console.log('*Message of the Week*');
console.log(acKeijiban.messageOfTheWeek.random());

Displaying a random "Poetry"

console.log('-Poetry-');
console.log(acKeijiban.poetry.random());

Displaying a random "Talking to Myself"

console.log('-Talking to Myself-');
console.log(acKeijiban.talkingToMyself.random());

Translation

For the moment, the only language avaible is English. The French messages are being collected directly from Animal Crossing: Wild World on Nintendo DS.

Obviously, you are free to participate to the translation in French or in any other language.

Avaible languages

English

• "Message of the Week": 85 (complete)
• "Poetry": 2 (complete)
• "Talking to Myself": 74 (complete)

French

• "Message of the Week": 8
• "Poetry": 0
• "Talking to Myself": 4

Thanks

Thanks to:

• The Programming Discussion and the Coding Den Discord servers;
• r/AnimalCrossing on Reddit;
• The Bulletin Board article on the Animal Crossing FANDOM wiki;
• Nintendo and Katsuya Eguchi for creating Animal Crossing;
• BelleChoucroute for the French translation.

Licenses

• My source code is published under MIT License.
• All the quotes from Animal Crossing: Wild World is the property of Nintendo.