Court Records

So, good news for T-Consequences:

Thanks to some help from Andross, several of my background images have been completed. Two still images are currently being made by another artist on Deviantart, who so far has finished all my requests in a very timely manner. For the first half of the case, I now just have 1.5 more backgrounds, sprites for the aforementioned character, and one piece of evidence (which I could probably throw together in about two minutes).

An outline for T-Unknown has been written up and I've started making some serious progress into the script, as well as sprites for one of the new characters in the final case.

Good to hear, glad I could help!

So I'm playing through The Rogue Turnabout, just got to a certain part of Case 2's second half...


Suffice to say, my attention was grabbed fairly easily.

Sorry for the double post, but I've just finished The Rogue Turnabout and all I can say is WOW.

That would be kinda pointless wouldn't it? It'd kill all of the suspense in her being missing in the first place, particularly since Gumshoe implies in the flashback that he thinks she's already dead.

Just finished TotW and all I can say is, similar to when I finished TRT, wow.

Thanks for playing, sir! I'm glad you've enjoyed it so far and I hope you like the final cases just as much. On your predictions...
On getting paid for this...

Nooooooooo... No, no, no, no... I wouldn't be legally allowed to take any money for this, since it still has the Ace Attorney name attached to it. So I can't accept any donations, payments, or anything along those lines. No money. I neither have nor never will make a single cent from Conflict of Interest. In fact, I'm LOSING money by making this game. But I'm actually fine with that. I'm having a blast so far making it, and it's been great hearing back from my players. It's also been a pretty neat hobby during the little freetime that I have.

Always nice to hear theories about what might happen. Keep 'em coming, people.

I still need to come up with an excuse for why Maya is still around in this game, since we all know she's going to be the culprit in Contempt of Court...

Another progress update. This time...

Awesome, I'm really looking forward to the next case. And the screenshots... just wow!

Keep up the great work Ropfa, it's a lot of hard work you're pulling with COI, but I'm sure it will turn out splendid, just like the previous cases.

Cheers!

Just so you know, I'm still available for beta-testing if you need me.

Ropfa wrote:Another progress update. This time...

SCREENSHOTS!!!
YAAAAYYYYY!!!

Spoiler: T-Consequences screenshots

Oh hey! Watters got a tan this time.

Nice background, by the way. :]

Ahh... the wait is killing me, Fuandon on youtube wants to play this also!

Anyway, YAY BIKINI!


OT: Looks good so far, is this case, not based off a murder, but attempted assassination?

Did you tell Fuandon about this update?

Not yet. I guess I just assumed that he lurked the forums, since he's figured out everything on his own before rather quickly (I realize how silly that sounds). He hasn't logged in here for a while, so I might drop a message on Youtube or something.

I think you should tell him.

Any more updates? UPDATES UPDATE????? STATUS UPDATES? No?

Anyways, good luck with the project, and have a wonderful New Years Day...


Wait... it was yesterday? Dammit....

EDIT:Woops double post

My status update is that I've been putting off working on stuff for the first half so that I can work on stuff for the rest of the game.

I'm aiming to finish another background tonight, and then I can MAYBE start working on the final one. I just have less drive to work on backgrounds, since they're not as interesting as character sprites.

Plus, the sprite contest. That took up a decent amount of my free time.

I will say though that the script for T-Unknown has reached 160 pages and is nowhere near completion. I'd estimate it's only about 30%-40% finished.


As for all that other stuff, I would not encourage attempting the majority of it, due to the likely negative consequences for yourself and others. However if you are truly dedicated to it, then I suppose there's nothing I can do.

Feel free to post online as much as you like though. I'd say that one's pretty safe to do.

Unless the NSA doesn't like whatever you said.

Haaaaa "negative consequences" get it because Case 4 is "Turnabout Consequences" hahahaha... I am so alone...

And my question was more reference to Consequences than Unknown

Okay, so one final thing before T-Consequences: Part one gets released. This is the final background for the case (or rather, the first half of the case). I made this all from scratch. I've made backgrounds before, but this one is much more detailed than any of the others I've tried. Not quite finished, as I still need to add in some evidence on the scene and possibly make some minor adjustments to the railing.

Feedback pls
After this, I'm going to make some outfit changes to one character (who I already have the base for, so that shouldn't take long) and make sure that all the coding is working properly. And then... off to beta-testing. Hopefully beta-testing will start within a month (depends on how much I slack off).

Ropfa wrote:Okay, so one final thing before T-Consequences: Part one gets released. This is the final background for the case (or rather, the first half of the case). I made this all from scratch. I've made backgrounds before, but this one is much more detailed than any of the others I've tried. Not quite finished, as I still need to add in some evidence on the scene and possibly make some minor adjustments to the railing.

Feedback pls

Spoiler:

Not sure what that white line on the right side is. It's definitely not in the file I uploaded.

I have no practice in backgrounds, but I'll do my best.

The floor looks fine and the rail is okay to this untrained eye. The clouds too. The contrast of the dark roof with the light background is pretty nice. Your perspective looks alright. Is that greenery a forest or part of the garden, and is that a balcony where the other door is?
Try shading "underneath" the roof tiles instead of drawing them in, use highlights and shadows to bring it into 3D.

I don't understand your light source(s).

The scene seems as if it's lit at the same level everywhere, which is bland from a lack of depth and doesn't focus the eye. (Grayscale to better see values) The green also blends in with the mountain and the sky, maybe a bit too much.

I messed around for a quick bit (keep in mind I don't really know what I'm doing), and ended up with this,

The colours aren't the best and don't really account for depth or bleeding (since I cheated and used Multiply/Screen because I just wanted to make the grayscale version more interesting, so it's all one shade in the coloured...) but I thought I'd leave it here as an idea.

Ropfa wrote:After this, I'm going to make some outfit changes to one character (who I already have the base for, so that shouldn't take long) and make sure that all the coding is working properly. And then... off to beta-testing. Hopefully beta-testing will start within a month (depends on how much I slack off).

Sounds like good progress. I look forward to the release.

Ahhh, the wait is killing me!


...


Part 1? What'chu talking bout Willis? I swear to Ropfa if you make a cliffhanger...

Thanks, Mercurial. I'll probably end up using that version.

Blizdi wrote:I swear to Ropfa

http://youtu.be/OfFbxIHBdjo?t=14s

Knew it, as soon as I saw "Youtube" I was like.. "Pssh.. Batman"

So... what is the current progress meter of Consequences?

Ropfa wrote:Thanks, Mercurial. I'll probably end up using that version.

Blizdi wrote:I swear to Ropfa

http://youtu.be/OfFbxIHBdjo?t=14s

Then it'll be...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFyHTU8tg_0

Sorry.

Er, well... I haven't really done anything since the previous update. I still need to make only one character's sprites and finish some coding. But here are the updated numbers:

TURNABOUT CONSEQUENCES

Planning: 100%
Script: 100% (final page total: 218)
Music: 100%
Sprites: 70%
Evidence: 100%
Backgrounds: 70%
Coding: 25%

TURNABOUT INTO THE UNKNOWN
Planning: 95%
Script: 45% (current page total: 181)
Music: 80%
Sprites: 14%
Evidence: 2%
Backgrounds: 5%
Coding: 0%

I'm starting to think that even with as little as I have left to do, one month wasn't quite enough for my deadline, since I have two big papers coming up in grad school, as well as a vacation. Things will probably pick up more when I'm back in a normal schedule.

Will coding really take that long? It's only at 25% :P

Didn't you finish backgrounds btw?

Yes, backgrounds are all finished. Coding won't take TOO long. I already have all the dialogue written up, so it's basically just a matter of line-breaking and bug fixing at this point. And that just involves me playing through the case a few times.

Can you give a rough idea that when will the case be out, I can´t stand the waiting man.

The_Turnabout_Guy wrote:Can you give a rough idea that when will the case be out, I can´t stand the waiting man.

Current estimate is that it will be finished when it is.

Ropfa wrote:

The_Turnabout_Guy wrote:Can you give a rough idea that when will the case be out, I can´t stand the waiting man.

Current estimate is that it will be finished when it is.

Are you sure you want to be so specific?

saluk wrote:Are you sure you want to be so specific?

Dammit Ropfa.... I didn't think you were a brony... Was the Case 3 defendant just a Proxy (lol Turnabout Proxy) of yourself?

I can't get COI working. Whenever I play it on pywright (the newest version), it crashes every time after the intro. (regardless of the episode)

Fixed with the pywright update. Are you ok for reviews? I will review it intensely when I finished it. As long as you don't take offense to criticism? :)

Oriachim wrote:Fixed with the pywright update. Are you ok for reviews? I will review it intensely when I finished it. As long as you don't take offense to criticism? :)

Sure, go ahead. I'll look forward to it.

Ropfa wrote:

Oriachim wrote:Fixed with the pywright update. Are you ok for reviews? I will review it intensely when I finished it. As long as you don't take offense to criticism? :)

Sure, go ahead. I'll look forward to it.

So... any nonspecific time frame updates? Has that "coding" gone from 25% and has "backgrounds" went up from 70%?