Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream has been out for less than a day, but its community is already hard at work. Fan-made websites are starting to pop up online that give players some handy tools that the game itself lacks, including a way to track all of your Miis relationships.
Though Nintendo’s wacky new life sim boasts some impressive customization features, it’s missing a few basic tools. The most glaring omission is that it doesn’t give players any way to share Miis and other creations online. It’s also missing some conveniences that would make it easier to track what’s happening on your island at a glance. Fans are already stepping in to fill those gaps.
To solve the lack of sharing, you can try heading over to a fan-made website called TomodachiShare. Created by X user trafficlunr, it’s a tool that allows anyone to submit pictures of their Mii creations, as well as details on how to recreate them. Some players are using it to upload screenshots of the face-paint screen to give fans a pixel-by-pixel guide to approximate something like the Duolingo owl. It’s almost like a social media site, as players can like creations and apply tags to them for easy discovery.
If you’re looking for a way to organize your island, you might also be interested in Tomo Board. Created by Reddit user FerOnReddit, the tool allows players to upload pictures of their Miis and connect all of them on a social flowchart. It’s a bit like an evidence board, as you link every Mii together with a line denoting their relationship. Living the Dream does have a way to track that in the game (go to your resident list, hover over a Mii, and press Y to see their standing with everyone else), but Tomo Board lets you see the entire matrix at a glance. It’s a handy tool for anyone treating their island like their own personal reality TV show.
If tools like this already exist one day into the game’s life, you can imagine how much further fans like this could go. The Tomodachi Life Reddit is a snapshot of a community pushing the life sim to its limits in real time. You’ll find people turning memes into Miis, recreating Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 with pixel-perfect accuracy, and straight-up adding cigarettes to the game. Perhaps that’s why Nintendo chose to disable online sharing and made it so you can’t upload screenshots to its Nintendo Switch mobile app, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to stop the community from making the most of Living the Dream.
If that all sounds a little intimidating, don’t worry. You can check out our Tomodachi Life beginner’s guide for some tips that will ease you in.
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