The team released the “leaks” online three days before April 1 with a plan to reveal themselves on April Fools’. “But in the following days the telephone-game effect kicked in and soon enough the source was somehow ‘an insider at Nintendo of Japan.’ Things got a little scary then.” “It was wild that any outlets picked it up at all to be honest, especially when the first few cited the source as being ‘some random people on a Discord server.’ Like, that wouldn’t normally strike you as being remotely trustworthy, right?” James said.
James told IGN he has no idea how the screenshots leaked from their Discord server, but the images were soon being picked up by Nintendo fansites as legitimate leaks. You can check out some of the assets in the gallery below. Together, the team created several “leaked” screenshots of a new Flipnote App coming to the Switch, complete with a fake title screen. Other contributors included Calcium who created the artwork, Liss who contributed a fake Japanese translation, and Austin and Rob from Sudomemo, a website dedicated to sharing Flipnote creations long after the service was shuttered officially. James organized the effort and designed fake UI. Art Credit: Calcium UI: James Translation: Liss Mock-ups for the fake Flipnote app for Switch created for April Fools. That spurred the developers to try and flesh out the concept and present fake screenshots of a “leaked” Flipnote Switch app for the community’s annual April Fool’s joke. While the community member in question wasn’t very pleased with the glib response, another developer on the channel was briefly fooled. “Towards the end of March, somebody who apparently wasn’t aware of the joke started to get on our case about rather aggressively, thinking we were intentionally tricking the community.”Īs a response, James created a quick mock-up in Sketch, a design program, and presented it to the community. What do you think? Let us know in the comments.The community made the idea of a new Flipnote app for the Switch an in-joke, but the impetus to create fake screenshots for April Fools’ didn’t materialize until five days before April 1.
Flipnote studio switch software#
Everything checks out.Īnd here’s what happens when you select the Flipnote – you can play it by pressing A, edit it by pressing X, and edit it by pressing ZL and ZR:įinally, we see a part of the editor, which reveals that we can pick up to 9 colors on a color palatte and create Flipnotes with up to 4 layers.Īlthough the screenshots look very convincing and similar to past Flipnote Studio titles, there are a few things suspicious about them, such as using the ZL and ZR button combination to start the software and delete a Flipnote (Nintendo typically uses the A button to start the software, and the X button to delete a Flipnote/or anything). Next, here’s the menu which lets you view and edit the Flipnotes you have created. And the button in the center asks the user to press ZL and ZR to start the game. The software title is simply “Flipnote Studio” with nothing else.
The screenshots, which look very convincing, have led many people to believe that animation freeware Flipnote Studio is indeed heading to Nintendo Switch.įirst, here’s the title screen. James claimed that the screenshots were taken from a Nintendo server.
Flipnote studio switch Pc#
A member of the fan-made PC Clipnote Studio community, James, has shared screenshots of what appears to be an unannounced version of Flipnote Studio for Nintendo Switch.
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