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Dancing Patent for Animal Crossing

Time to get up and DANCE! 💃🕺Festivale is Feb 16 in #AnimalCrossingNewHorizons.

— Nintendo of America [Twitter/X Mirror] (@nintendousa.bsky.social) 2026-02-15T18:01:02.475Z

There’s a patent for leading a dance in Animal Crossing New Horizons. It’s quite self-explanatory, so I’ll let the drawings below do the talking. Viva Festivale!

Drawings from Patent US20230090134: IG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing a non-limiting example of the positional relationship between the PC 201, the NPCs, and the imitation region; FIG. 8 illustrates a non-limiting example of the game screen according to the exemplary embodiment
Drawings from Patent US 20230090134: FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram showing a non-limiting example of the positional relationship between the PC 201, the NPCs, and the imitation region; FIG. 10 illustrates a non-limiting example of the game screen according to the exemplary embodiment
Drawings from Patent US 20230090134: FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram showing a non-limiting example of the positional relationship between the PC 201, the NPCs, and the imitation region; FIG. 12 illustrates a non-limiting example of the game screen according to the exemplary embodiment

[Originally posted on 2026-02-16 Pacific Time]