#i have played one quarter of an ace attorney game. and.

[sentimentalslut]

You could be an ace attorney character.

Relatively young age for a lawyer

Has Tumblr (you cannot convince me that most of the characters in ace attorney don't have Tumblr)

you dont have to do this to me -- i have a family, loved ones, please, i'm begging y---

[pumpkin-spike18]

✨Weekly Progress #24✨

Playing Ace Attorney might be what's keeping me sane nowadays

Because if I get back into shiny hunting, I will most definitely not be sane.

sketched & colored 6 P-M end cards

Wrote 130 words for SFB

Posted devlogs

Thumbnailed P-M epilogue

Thumbnailed SFB art

Answered BWBOK comments

Sketched 3 SFB animations + 1 CG

Made SFB demo marketing plan

Made SFB Logo

Finished SFB Animation 4

Reviewed BWBOK comments

Lined SFB Animation 3

Lined + Flat colored SFB Animation 2

Almost done with SFB CG lineart

Wrote 1k+ words for BWBOK

A Sky of Falling Birds

You all have spoiled me with the attention you've given SYVNH, I've forgotten how important it is to start marketing the moment a jam starts. Luckily Arimia has instilled the basics into everyone in the server so I had some ideas to fall back to. It's pretty squished and I've still got a lot of work to do.

Since I originally penned the script for SFB, I had the bold idea to do some animation. It was intended to be cinematic and test my skills in animating. Well, that was before I made deadlines for myself and before considering commercialization of... any of my work.

So for what I planned to show off in the demo, I had to go back and reconsider some of the fight scenes, which I wanted to animate. I'll focus more on renpy based animations. Still simple, but hopefully still cinematic enough to entertain.

The demo is currently planned for 4 short animations like this and 2 CGs, with 2k words. I think the only things I'm testing right now is my speed, sanity, and stamina.

Pre-Make

Will this tiny game ever be finished? It's time to take a break again to meet deadlines on other projects.

The art is almost completely done now. I just have the most difficult one left... drawing a Victorian town square that'll only be used for one scene.

The Beauty Which Only Beast Knows

Initial editing has finished so I'm back to work making corrections and additions to the script!

Other

I mark down all my dev tasks each week, it's how I can make all these devlogs. This is probably only the second time ever where 2 weeks worth of tasks filled an entire page. Usually I only manage half a page or a three-quarters of a page.

[azuramarigold]

Day 3 for NaruMayo Week 2023

@narumayoweek2023

Day 3: Videogames/Pining

"Alright, so, here me out, Nick-"

            "Whatever it is that you are about to beg me for, the answer is 'No', Maya."

            Maya stood in front of Phoenix's desk with her cheeks puffed out and her small fists to her side. "You haven't even heard me out, yet!" she complained with a whine.

            Phoenix gave her an exasperated look. "When you start your sentence with, 'Alright, here me out, Nick' I just know it is going to cost me some sort of amount of money," he explained to her, pinching the corners of his eyes.

            The medium gave a small grimace while she gave the "so-so" hand gesture. "But I swear it's not a lot!" she promised. "The arcade by the high school has just got the new 'Steel Samurai vs. Evil Magistrate - Deluxe Battle for Neo Old Tokeyo: The Arcade Game'!"

            Phoenix's jaw dropped. "Why… is the title so long…?" he asked her, completely perplexed.

            "It just is!" she vaguely replied.

            Phoenix gave a loud sigh. "So… what, is this an arcade game based on the movie you made me go see with you a few weeks ago…?" he questioned her.

            Maya scoffed, "Uh, NO!"

            "Oh."

            "It's the arcade game based on the home videogame version that is based off of the movie!" she told him. "Duh!"

            The attorney rolled his eyes. "Of course," he slowly said, over-acting his words. "Silly me, how could I have ever mistaken that…?"

            Maya stuck her tongue out at him. "Well, why are we still sitting here!?" she demanded. "We need to make our way down there and get our gaming on!"

            Phoenix rolled his eyes. "Maya… I have paperwork to finish up…" he informed her. "And besides, the last time I played any sort of video game was back in grade school."

            Maya's mouth dropped. "WHHHHAAAAAT!?" she nearly screeched. She immediately ran around the desk and grabbed his hand, forcing him to drop his pen. "C'mon, Nick! We need to get you a dose of gaming!"

            The attorney's face fell, looking completely exasperated and beaded with sweat. With a sigh, he got up from his desk and began to follow Maya out of the office, his keys in hand to lock up behind him. The Spirit Medium smiled with victory as she waited for him to lock the door and they headed for the nearest bus stop.

**

"Wow… this place is packed…!"

            "Well, Maya, it is a little after three in the afternoon on a weekday, so the school just got out," Phoenix pointed out to her. "And you said the game is brand new to the arcade… of course these kids are going to want to play."

            The other games in the arcade were completely abandoned, but the "Steel Samurai" game was crowded with onlookers and a line. When Maya managed to push her way through the onlooker crowd, it seemed the two people who currently playing were playing as two players - the main character of the "Steel Samurai" himself and the secondary character, the "Pink Princess". It seemed that the duo's streak was long - they had been playing since they got there, feeding the machine constantly with quarters to keep their lives up.

            "Aw, Nick… they're not letting anyone else play…!" Maya complained to him when she sulked back.

            "Can’t be helped, Maya," Phoenix shrugged, not particularly caring. "They got here first."

            "There has to be some kind of law they're breaking by hogging the game!" Maya pouted, her cheeks puffed out.

            The attorney gave a small chuckle, "Unfortunately, no… there is not. Unless they assault someone over the game, or breaking one of the arcade rules, they are there to stay."

            Since they were there at the arcade, Phoenix figured he would cheer Maya up a bit by playing some games with her since they were all free. She had given him a small nod and the two went off. Maya couldn't help but laugh at how odd Phoenix looked in his suit playing a racing game with her.

            "You didn't give me time to change…" he had complained to her. "And you're one to talk with your robes!" The proper response was Maya beating him in the race.

            The next game they played was a zombie shooting game where they took plastic guns and shot at the screen. It had cheesy dialogue, and it was something that Maya knew by heart as she was reciting the lines with poor voice acting along side them. Phoenix was a little more decent at the game as it was an updated version of a similar game he played as a kid on a console.

            After an hour of them playing around, they had won a decent number of tickets, but Maya still wanted to at least try to play the new "Steel Samurai" game. The crowd had since dispersed, but it was still the same two people at the game. Upon further inspection - they weren't high school students, but college kids that seemed to not have classes that day and were just playing at the arcade all day.

            "Hey, do you mind if we can have a chance to play?" Maya asked politely, her hands clasped together.

            "Buzz off," one of the players replied, a taller lanky guy with dark blonde hair wearing a red beanie with the local community college logo on it.

            "Yeah, we've been here since the arcade opened," the other replied, him with brown hair with a few streaks of blue, wearing a red hoodie from the local community college.

            "We're trying to find every Easter Egg in the game since we already beat it a few times," the first one followed-up.

            Maya's jaw dropped. "A few times!?" she nearly shouted. "Okay, I get playing while the kids are at school, and you don't have classes or something… but let others have a chance after the fact!"

            Phoenix pinched the edges of his eyes. "Maya, we can come back another day…" he told her.

            The second player laughed, "Yeah, try to be here when we aren't, I dare ya! Listen to your Sugar Daddy here!"

            Phoenix's face fell. "I am anything but that…" he grumbled.

            Maya puffed out her cheeks in anger. "Oh, you guys are jerks!" she shouted at them. "Hogging the game from a bunch of kids and kids at heart!"

            "I have no idea why I'm being lumped into that latter category…" the attorney sighed.

            "We are paying customers, girlie!" the first player told her. "We can do what we want!" He then eyed her up and down. "I'll tell ya what, you can sit on my lap and watch me play, you're pretty cute." He then waggled his dark blonde brows at her.

            Maya's face twisted with disgust. "Um… no thanks…" she muttered, her crossing her arms.

            "Only way you're going to be able to play…" the guy told her in a sing-song voice.

            "Talk to her like that again and there will be suit filed for sexual harassment faster then you pressing one of those damn buttons on that console," Phoenix then growled, his dark blue eyes narrowed at him.

            The man gave a chuckle. "Oh, what are ya, some kind of lawyer? That why ya wearing a suit and tie?"

            "As a matter of fact, I am," Phoenix smirked. "And I personally know a couple of prosecutors who would love to make sure your asses get in jail."

            The second player paled slightly. "Hey man, we were just messin'…" he insisted, his voice cracking.

            "One has a whip," Phoenix continued, not caring. "And believe me, she just loves to use it… and get your head out of the gutter, not in that way."

            The second player then got up from the game, the continue screen counting down. He pocketed whatever quarters he had left. "All yours, miss…" he told Maya. He then gestured to his friend to get up.

            "Dude, what the hell!" the first player shouted at him. "You pussy, he's just bluffing!"

            "Am I?" Phoenix countered, tilting his head to the side slightly and rubbing his chin.

            With a scoff, the first player relented and got up from the game as well, pocketing his leftover quarters as well. He then bumped into Phoenix's arm as he stalked off, muttering incoherently. The second player trailed off after him.

            Phoenix let out a long sigh, which was cut off by a startled grunt as Maya threw her arms around his torso. "M-Maya…!?" he squeaked out.

            "Thank you, Nick…!" she said to him. Was the sniffle he heard from her?

            Bashfully, Phoenix scratched behind his head. "Eh… it's no big deal…" he replied offhandedly.

            "You looked like you wanted to deck him though," Maya smiled up coyly at him.

            "I mean… he was…"

            Maya gave a giggle, "I would never dream of sitting in another man's lap!" She then realized what she said, and her face turned into a bright crimson, practically glowing.

            "What was that, Maya…?" Phoenix pressed lightly, trying to hide his grin.

            "N-Nothing!" Maya squealed, throwing her hands out in front of her to push her away from him. "Now let's play some of the game! I call the 'Steel Samurai'!" She sat in the one chair and put a quarter in to select the chosen character.

            "Wait… I have to be the 'Pink Princess'!?" Phoenix said to her, clearly shocked.

            "Yes!"

            "OBJECTION!"

[wowowwild]

Ok so T&T Thoughts™:

For the most part all of the cases are very cohesive. Imo Recipe for Turnabout is the outlier here. It's truly an iconic case, but it has nothing to do with any of the Feys and I didn't notice any foreshadowing. I for sure could have missed something, but this whole time I just kind of felt like it was out of place. It's not that I didn't enjoy it, I just don't know why it's here, ya know?

Godot thoughts: I like his character. The only time that really changed was when he was talking to Franziska, and I find myself to be very sensitive to how men interact with women, that is to say I don't think he was being sexist in any situation except for that. And it pissed me off, you can find the post (nvm i found it for you), I wanted her to beat his ass (which she didn't). He was getting frustrating, but it built up and resolved nicely in the end. He even admitted that he might not have been doing everything for the right reasons and it caused problems.I could honestly analyze his character for hours, and if you want me to, send me an ask, but rn it's 1 am so I'm doing this wrap up and going to bed.

We learned this game that I ship Phoenix with at least a quarter of the men he meets. Man deserves some good things every once in a while.

This game allowing you to play as both Mia and Edgeworth truly lets you have it all. I'm playing Investigations next. If I find Investigations 2 I'll play that after and if not I'll go to Apple Juice. That is to say I want my Ace Attorney: Mia Fey game. Give it here, Capcom.

uhhhhh I'm a simp? We already knew that.

Back to the first point, The overarching story in this one is fantastically done. The foreshadowing is very good, nothing comes out of left field. This is probably my favorite of the trilogy tbh.

Best thing to come out of this game def got to be my Gummy to the rescue post which eas apparently a big hit. Gummy really do got me.

[reddedredemption]

Among Ass Moment II

It was a busy day high in the Earth's atmosphere, inside the MIRA head quarters, where bad decisions had been made in the nano-fracture of an electrochemical signal sent across red's brain.

This is how it went down...

Me: sees black getting enveloped in shapeshifter's egg in the hallway

Me: dashes for the button as one good crewmate does

Brain: w a i t

Me: AM REALLY IN A HASTE HERE

Brain: yeah, yeah i know but-

Me: LITERALLY THE WORST TIME FOR OVERTHINKING

Brain: -but you really need check if they transitioned into someone or backwards into themselves!

Me: IT MAKES ZERO SENSE TO STOP FOR THAT

Brain: oh? fine. fine. accuse black, even if innocent. then everyone will accuse you for throwing a fellow crewmate under the bus, and the rest who is somewhat doubting that, will vote you out because you're always sus. go on, run for that button. no second guesses needed. not at all.

Me: sighes Listen... I've been playing this for a while now. It's in the body language... Black stood in the hallway, and then got enveloped in the egg... Definitely took their time in those settings to choose the crewmate they wanted to morph into... Easy hunch.

Brain: sureeeee, that logic didn't flaw you last time when you murdered your friend. she was guarding you near wires, kept you company on the ship the whole game, and you killed her in cold pursuit of victory.

Brain: i'm not stopping you. keep doing it your way, t r a i t o r

Me: Nice try, but I'm healed now! You won't guilt trip me into doing dumb things again.

Brain: ?! ...but... but... aren't you curious just a wee bit how they shapeshift back?..

Me: ignores stoically

Brain: um... err, how about this: if you run far away enough from them, but with them in sight, they won't be able to reach you for the kill; er, and then, when they shapeshift back, you'll have undeniable proof, save everyone, and win the game! sneaky you, huh?

Me: No. I'm a sensible human being who doesn't act on impulses of guilt, dangerous curiosity, or taking this game so seriously that I'd risk my life to gather more evidence. Nothing bad will happen to me even if I'm wrong. Besides, I trust my eyes, and I came here to have simple, unburdened fun that only the gaming industry can provide.

Brain:

Brain:

Brain:

Brain: c o w a r d

Me: stops

Me: sees someone in the corner of my screen

Me: Yes, it is white's double, and they run straight towards m—

* Kill Distance: U N I V E R S E *

Brain:

Brain: humms DUN DUN DUN soundtrack from Ace Attorney

Brain: so, it was BLACK who morphed into WHITE, then chased YOU down because you saw their transition. you got killed in front of OTHER crewmates because you wanted to REPORT the shapeshifter, but stopped to do an unnecessary double check. now, everyone will point at WHITE'S double, who was actually BLACK, and who planned to FRAME WHITE SINCE THE BEGINNING!

Brain: w i l d

Ghost Me: Ghost Me: You're off for the next round.

P. S.

Just a few words.

Not really that important...

It's just a game, after all.

White got voted out.

Like, every single soul voted for him.

We lost.

Yours,

Sus but not Ded

[quarterdollar]

very epic and cool of my screenshots folder to automatically create an entire straight row of really good reaction images

[leafy-m]

Tagged by @moongalleon22, thank you!

Tag game: tag people you want to know better!

Favorite time of the year: Autumn! Halloween and fall decorations bring me joy, and I love pumpkin pie and the cooler weather.

Comfort foods: Anything involving potatoes. Also brown rice with stir-fried veggies and a cream-of-chicken sauce. ❤️ Also I guess Kit-Kats because if I'm stressed I will just eat a bunch of them lol.

Do you collect anything: I guess the US state quarters, but it's more like when I come across one I don't have and I just stack them in a little box. Also I guess Daevabad information (I run the Daevapedia Wiki) and so I'm always checking for the latest international book editions or bookish merch to (eventually) add to the site.

Favorite drink: Tazo's Zen Tea. It's green tea with lemongrass, lemon verbena, and spearmint. I've tried other similar brands but I like Tazo's ratio the best. I like to make a big pot in the morning, have a hot cup with breakfast and then stick the rest in the fridge for later.

Favorite music artists: This is where I reveal that I like songs but don't know much about the people singing it. 😅 I think I've consistently enjoyed Imagine Dragons, Billie Eilish, Alt-J, Gotye, The Weeknd, and Linkin Park, but otherwise I always get my music on a song-by-song basis.

Current favorite songs: I recently got into The Hunger Games series so the movies' best songs (Atlas, Silhouettes, Who We Are, Place For Us, Kingdom Come, Safe and Sound) have been playing on loop lately. Also Harry Style's Late Night Talking has been on the radio constantly so that's been stuck in my head too.

Favorite fics: There's this really old 2002 Spider-Man fic by LAXgirl (Down Came the Rain, ffn) that has lived in my brain for years, I love it. I also really love LaadyNaty's Daevabad/Nahli fics, especially I See Sparks Fly Whenever You Smile & You and I'll Be Safe and Sound (ao3). I also enjoy reading my own Daevabad fics lmao, because I write them for myself first and foremost. 😂

Favorite video games: The Metroid Prime trilogy, definitely. I love the mix of exploring/archeology and fighting monsters, and the music and background detailing for the world/levels are beautiful. I love the Uncharted and Last of Us series for those reasons too, in addition to the characters/interactions which are so great. Stray is also an absolutely wonderful game, and I enjoy the Ace Attorney/Phoenix Wright series.

Tagging (if you want!): @thiswolflovespizza @sleepinglionhearts @pai-likes-pie @sapphicmipha @praise-the-lord-im-dead @e11evenseggos @bookgrotto @biorusted @beevean @homomrdarcy @shajarat @rumaan @supernutellastuff @the-sober-folly @burnwithtears and anyone I missed

[rivalsforlife]

AA7 Speculation Post: One Year Later

here we go again.

A year and a day ago, I made a speculation post about if/when we’d ever be seeing AA7. Obviously, my claim that AA7 would be announced in September 2020 did not turn out to be true, but later that year we did get a leaked calendar containing information on the new ports for Chronicles, and also plans for a new aa7, which I summarized in this post.

Now that we have Chronicles we can verify that the leaks contained legitimate information (as if a statement from Capcom saying they were hacked wasn’t legitimate enough). So that leaves us with one key question: is AA7 still happening? If so, when can we expect it? As well, what other information from the leaked calendar can we consider, especially with early sales data on Chronicles? In addition, what are the implications of this new survey on Chronicles from Capcom?

All of that will be discussed under the cut so that this doesn’t take up too much space.

Revisiting The Calendar

Once again, here is a rough translation of the calendar that was present in the leaks:

As a note, in this post, I’ll be referring to our new games as “Chronicles” to prevent this from being blocked by people avoiding spoilers.

So: this original calendar, generated before the pandemic, had Chronicles releasing in Q1 of FY2021 - and it’s also important to note that in Japan, each fiscal year starts in April 1st, so FY2021 is actually April-June 2021. This shows that Chronicles was pushed back about a quarter from their expected release date. However, Chronicles was a port of already existing games, therefore somewhat less work was needed on them - upscaling models and textures, adding in some new features like autoplay and story mode, and of course, the English translation and voicework were needed, which is still a lot of course, but less compared to development on an entirely new game. In addition to that, the pandemic hit AA7 in its early development stage, assuming this schedule was still being followed by the time the pandemic hit. That could cause more delays than expected.

So the original plan was for AA7 to be released in Q3 of 2021, which corresponds to October-December, aligning with the 20th anniversary of the series in October. While it’s a desirable goal, it’s quite likely the pandemic pushed it back at least a quarter, if not more, if not cancelled it entirely. ... haha.

We’ll only know the fate of AA7 for certain when it’s announced. Which it is possible it may never be. However, I have two theories for, if AA7 is getting an announcement, when it will be:

1) Sometime during September 2021, either in the leadup to or during Tokyo Game Show this year. These are for the same reasons as I outlined in my initial speculation post. It’s a popular time for Ace Attorney game announcements, after all. TGS, according to what I can find, will be held online this year from September 30th to October 3rd. If Capcom announces AA7 earlier in September through Famitsu, like they did with AA6 for example, then we can expect to get some information during TGS... 

2) Sometime during a 20th Anniversary Event, possibly in October 2021. I’m assuming AA is planning something for the 20th anniversary - Chronicles wasn’t really marketed as a 20th anniversary release, for instance. If they can’t release a new game for the 20th anniversary (which at this rate, seems unlikely, as we’re about two months out from that with no word about it) then an announcement would be just as good at generating hype for it.

Naturally, if we reach this time next year with absolutely no news on AA7, it’s probably safe to say it’s been cancelled or at least delayed so severely that anything we currently know about it isn’t worth much.

There’s one more point of interest on the calendar: reconsidering the porting of 456. I feel that this depends heavily on how well the Chronicles ports are doing; if it’s not financially viable to keep porting games, then why bother? So, let’s take a look at that.

The Success of Chronicles

As I write this, it’s about two and a half weeks since the release of Chronicles worldwide. So... how did the games do? It’s a bit hard to tell, especially as I am not a game marketer and don’t know the expectations for Chronicles. What is obvious is that, if Chronicles does much better than expected, porting 456 and possibly even the investigations games seems likely. (If Chronicles, indeed, does especially well in the West, than a porting of the investigations games and localization of investigations 2 after ten years could very well be possible.) If Chronicles does absolutely terribly, it damages the chances of porting, and possibly of continuing the series. If it does terribly especially in the West, where the games are essentially new, it could damage the chances of any new games being localized at all.

So, a lot is riding on this, and I don’t know enough to tell how well it did. Here’s what I have found, however:

Nintendo Enthusiast reports on Famitsu sales of Switch games, and overall thinks it’s not doing so great. Chronicles ranks third on the list of Switch sales in its first week, with 14,460 units sold, over 4000 less than NEO: The World Ends With You, which was released on July 27th. Keep in mind that Chronicles was released in Japan on July 29th, which is two days later, and that these are only Japanese sales (where they’ve had Chronicles for years on both mobile and 3DS) and only Switch sales, where NEO:TWEWY is currently only available on Switch and PS4 (Chronicles has the additional platform of Steam, where there could be many more sales). In the next week, Chronicles ranked 22 overall, with NEO:TWEWY at 23, though of course they’re still a little less than 4000 units behind NEO:TWEWY overall. Slightly closing the gap, I guess.  

How about overseas data, then? ... It’s hard to tell. I can find this report from gamespot which discusses the top 20 games sold in the US in July, and Chronicles is not on the list, while NEO:TWEWY is at 16. However, they don’t give any number for the units sold, and it seems that they aren’t considering digital sales for a lot of them, so it’s hard to tell how much of a hit that is.

However, let’s go back to Japanese sales for a bit, and look at the 2019 Trilogy re-release for a comparison against Chronicles. Allegedly, combined Switch and PS4 sales in the first week of the trilogy’s release only amounted to about 8000 units, a little more than half that of Chronicles’ Switch sales. It’s also important to note that the 2019 trilogy ended up being the only ace attorney game to sell over a million copies. Ace Attorney is not a big series; I’m sure Capcom takes this into account when considering sales data, especially for ports. If Chronicles does end up doing better than the trilogy overall, it’s definitely looking good for ports and especially so for Chronicles.

However, there’s more to this than just sales data.

The Survey

Capcom now has a user survey for Chronicles, which you can answer even if you’re partway through the first game. I believe it’s only open until September 30 2021, so if you think you can finish the game before then, I’d recommend filling it out once you’re done so that you can give the best feedback.

It asks you a bunch of questions like what platform you bought it on, why you bought it, your expectations, and all sorts of detailed questions on the various mechanics, difficulty and enjoyment of the trials and investigations, satisfaction of visuals, plot, characters, music, and even free response sections for what you liked and disliked about the game. It’s a very detailed survey that’s pretty long but I think is worth filling out. At the end they ask you to fill out some demographic questions (such as age, gender (male, female, other), country, what kind of things you like to spend money on, and what kind of games you like, what platforms you have to play games on). But what’s possibly the most interesting question is this:

“If a new [Chronicles] game is released in the future, do you think you would buy it?”

This means that, depending on the answers to the survey, they could very well decide to work on a third game to Chronicles.

This has huge implications for the future of the series. I’ll probably make a separate post on plot-related stuff later, but for now... let’s talk about logistics.

In my initial AA7 speculation post I said I highly doubted that they would ever make another Chronicles game. I also said that they probably never would be localized, so, guess who’s a clown now. 

Right now the AA series is in a bit of a dry period, with no new games having been released in the last four years. As well, with Yamazaki (the director of the investigations games and AA5/6) having left Capcom, the next director of the mainline games is completely unknown. As described in this video, the main reason Chronicles ever came about was because Capcom went ahead with mainline AA5 before Takumi could come back from the Layton crossover. Now, since 2017, we don’t really know what Takumi is working on. It’s possible he’s gone back to mainline to work on AA7 (though of course, there is absolutely no evidence suggesting that he has, so definitely don’t take that as any sort of confirmation).

However, if we do get a Chronicles 3, it’s quite likely Takumi would return to work on that, as he directed the previous two games. In addition, if Chronicles ends up being such a success to completely eclipse mainline (from what I’ve heard, though I have no serious proof, Resolve is considered as highly rated as T&T by many Japanese fans) then the series could permanently go down the road of writing more Chronicles games, leaving mainline stagnant (which, let’s be real, it’s already stagnating). The success of that is uncertain considering how neatly our current Chronicles duology wraps up, but... we’ll have to see how things unfold in the future.

For now, I highly recommend filling out the survey to give your input to the series’ future directions. Maybe mention that you want localized investigations 2 somewhere in the free response section because uhh I forgot to do it in mine. do that for me.

TL;DR

Main takeaways from this post are:

- I personally expect an AA7 announcement either during TGS or a 20th anniversary event

- If Chronicles does extremely well, then 456 ports are likely to happen, and I personally speculate investigations ports (along with localized investigations 2) will as well.

- Fill out this Chronicles survey before September 30th to give your input on the games and possibly the future direction of the series. I recommend completing the games before you do, but if you think you won’t before September 30th, you can fill it out at any time.

- We Very Well May Get Another Chronicles Game. Who saw that coming. Not me.

Thanks if you read through all of this, let’s hope September/October doesn’t leave me looking like a fool again.

[dudski]

Tagged by @succdale who did not think I would do this based on twenty years of observed behavior BUT CURVEBALL I'M DOING IT ANYWAY

Three ships:

1. Buck/Eddie 911, THE FIC FIXATION DU JOUR. Sometimes I find a son and I say "my boy needs a LOVING FAMILY" and then he meets a single dad who becomes the person who knows and trusts him best in the entire world, and whose kid he loves like his own, but the showrunners are COWARDS and CRIMINALS and it's just not going to happen, hence: the fic.

2. Buck/Taylor 911. Sometimes cowards and criminals make some points? BUCK/TAYLOR...IT FUCKING RULES ACTUALLY. I am extremely high on them this week because @succdale just watched S5 and Finally I Am Understood. It's fandom and we all know this but HAVING A FRIEND TO SHARE THESE FEELINGS WITH IS A BEAUTIFUL THING!!!!! Listen. I watch 911 with a heart full of love but also rage, constantly keeping a mental tally of a) Who Is Supporting My Perfect Son Buck Who Has Literally Only Done One Wrong Thing Ever And It Wasn't Even That Big A Deal, and b) Who Is Inexplicably Not Supporting Him And Needs To Answer For This At The Hague. AND TAYLOR SHOWS UP! SHE'S DOING THE WORK, FOLKS! IT'S GOOD! IT'S EXTREMELY GOOD!

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First ever ship: I'm going to say this was Rachel/Tobias from Animorphs. Nine year old dudski lived for that shit.

Last song: Last song I listened to was Liz Phair - Why Can't I, last song added to the rotation was Travis Tritt - Bible Belt aka the end credits song from My Cousin Vinny.

Last film: 12 Angry Men! I said it in tags already but THAT MOVIE FUCKS? Like I knew it was a classic but I was WILDLY invested the entire time.

Currently reading: I'm reading a book a week this year! I'm about to start Blood Sweat and Pixels by Jason Schreier bc the ebook was (and still is) on sale for 1.99. I read Of Mice and Men the other day because it was the end of the week and I hadn't read anything and needed a quick gimme.

Currently watching: Weekly: The Righteous Gemstones, The Gilded Age, The Amazing Race, Abbott Elementary, Joe Millionaire: For Richer or Poorer. Just finished Yellowjackets yesterday, starting My Country: The New Age this week.

Currently playing: Adding this in! I'm in the middle of three games right now which is usually a no-no for me but eh, with these three it works. I take a break between cases in The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles so I don't burn out, Slay the Spire has no story so it's easy enough to balance with other games, and I'm like two thirds of the way through A Night in the Woods.

Currently consuming: Cinnamon raisin English muffin and iced coffee...the breakfast of champions.

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An amazing storyline!! (Although it is most definitely darker than most Professor Layton games (I think?) and Ace Attorney games so yeah)

Lots of new game mechanics that you wouldn't find in any mainline AA game!! (Although you would find them in the DGS games which is to say get ready for the DGS localisation cos it's coming this year xx)

The cutscenes are REALLY well animated (there's this one scene with Professor Layton which I'm not gonna spoil, but if you know, you know)

I'm not going to speak on how good it is compared to other Professor Layton games cos I gave up a quarter through the first game and also I watched a playthrough so yeah BUT the puzzles do look very fun :))

It's set in a really ye olde something kind of setting so there's that too!

Cons:

Several plot holes

A lot of people hate the voice acting in the game, especially the voice acting for Maya and Phoenix, but personally I think it's fine so take that as you will

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Copycat Rebellion Development Journal #1

Hi, all! This post is the first of hopefully many more I will be writing about my dream of 10 years finally coming true.

This project changed form and evolved so many times in the past 10 years, parallel to my growth as a person. I'm guessing this growth will accelerate even more now that I've finally started to make a real effort to bring it into reality. To chronicle this growth, and my journey with it, I will try to write journals like this. If you have any interest in it, please read them and help me better this project.

This ten-year-old unborn child of mine is a game project. It didn't start as one, but now I am certain that I can only tell this story in a video game format. The gameplay I have in mind can be called a cross between Ace Attorney Investigations and Fire Emblem. The main idea will be to collect "facts" from conversations with people, investigations, and research; and to combine them to gain new options and move the story forward. These options unlocked through investigation and logic will lead you to several different endings. Of course, these are all just plans for now. On the development side of things, I am not that far ahead yet.

Which brings us to the question, what have I done so far? Well, for starters, my development environment is ready. I've also coded about a quarter of my engine. Using an existing game engine would probably accelerate development, but I wanted to write my custom engine both to have more control over the project and to acquire a deeper understanding of game programming. Another reason for this choice is that I want to code the game in Kotlin, a fairly new programming language I've fallen in love with. All Java libraries can also be used in Kotlin, so that still leaves me with some alternatives, but ultimately I think I owe coding this game from scratch to the 10 years I've spent with it.

Getting back on topic, so far I'm done with the input system, very basic prototypes for several screens like the main menu screen, load/save game screens, and such. With what I currently have, I have written some simple games, one being a snake game, the other a bullet hell type game where you dodge incoming particles. For this particular project, I need to implement a Visual Novel style screen, and I think I can write a simple parser to play story scripts I write on special files. If I can automate the parse/show/input loop well, I can handle the VN-style parts with just a couple hundred lines of code. Being able to quickly see the bits of the story I have written will no doubt motivate me to write further.

I will also need to implement a preparation phase screen, and a mission screen. These will all have subscreens like inventory, submenus, and such. So, they will be much more complex. However, building on what I have step by step, I believe I can handle the coding process by myself.

As things progress, however, I think I will need people helping me with other things. More specifically, art and music. Storytelling will also be a beast I might require help with, but slow and steady will probably help me win the race.

For now, I think this is all I have to say. I do not know how frequent these posts will be, but I know there will be more.

Please look forward to Copycat Rebellion.

[transformersvn]

Part 1

Intro and my history with VNs

I’m going to do a making of set of posts to run through my creative process while making the game. They’ll be tagged #making of and will cover the following topics:

Part 2 - Sprites Part 3 - Script, conversion Part 4 - Script, direction Part 5 - Backgrounds and CGs Part 6 - Misc extra

If there’s anything people would like to see please let me know and I can add it (even if you think it might be covered, those are some very broad categories and I’m sure I’ll miss something). Or feel free to ask further questions.

Now, onto a short history of my experience with visual novels.

I’ve not played a huge amount. There’s been Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator, Swooning Over Stans (a fan-made Gravity Falls dating sim), most of the Ace Attorney series, and most of the Professor Layton series. I’d like to give an honourable mention to Fire Emblem 7, whose cutscenes were masterful and very much in a VN style.

I used Ren’Py, a free visual novel creator. It’s made in python and the basic script-making is really easy. Close Quarters is about as simple as it gets, I used a couple of tricks here and there, but they were all from the in-built tutorial.

I completed an original VN in Ren’Py a few months back: InBetween: Mee’s Adventure, based on a friend’s WIP roleplaying system InBetween. In that one, I wrote the script, drew the backgrounds, and made music, while my friend drew the sprites. I learnt a lot from the experience and a fair bit of the polishing I was able to do on Close Quarters was drawn from that. It actually has choices too!

One of the main things it taught me is how slow a writer I can be, so with that in mind, I sought a pre-written script in order to practise my sprite drawing skills without having to spend months writing a story that I might never finish. I found Close Quarters, which had a compelling narrative and (more importantly for my early sprite-drawing days) very few characters overall.

Normally the first order of business with VNs is making sure you have a good script, as while it may only be a small part of the overall process, it’s the one that can hold up everything else. What characters do you need? What expressions should they have? What settings are they in? These will all be answered once you have your story, so get at least a first draft done first.

Thankfully in my case, I had my story, now I had to work on everything else.

[blu3danny]

Danny's Random Thoughts #4: Not the Best Start to 2018

I’ve got a lot of things to talk about, so read what’s under the cut if you’re interested.

Alright, this isn't the best way for me to open up 2018. I don't know how many of you have been wondering this but allow me to point it out. So, I haven't been posting much artwork at all this month. Is it because I'm busy? Well, yes I am, and I'll mention that reason later, though the main reason why I haven't been able to do anything is because my old laptop finally kicked the bucket. My old laptop hasn't been too healthy and just recently died from a fried motherboard. Yeah, that was just about the wort thing it could have happened to it. So, since the day I came back from vacation until about a week ago I had no way to draw anything. The worst part is that I was not able to recover all of my files from the old computer, which included just about everything I did from December-January. So everything from my To Do List, to the work files for the YCH I did, to the final 2017 weekly sketches, to the two drawings that I posted at the very beginning of the year? Gone forever. This may not sound like much to you all, but I'm not very happy about losing work that I spent a lot of hours of my life putting a lot of work into. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised, as that laptop was pushing to being six years old. Still, I wish I didn't lose those files forever. Now this isn't all bad news, as I have been able to get a new laptop, and managed to install all of my programs, as well as an upgraded and improved Sketchbook Pro. This means that I'll be able to do some much more dynamic and experimental things to my pieces- different widths to the linework, being able to make my own custom brushes- this did open up a new world of possibilities for me, so I'm happy that something good did come out of this. What will this mean for my productivity? I'm not quite sure as I do have one major obstacle standing in the way of the artwork that I can produce for you guys.

College. Yeah, I'm still in college, though that will hopefully not be the case for much longer. Why is that? Because this is my last quarter and, should everything go according to plan, I'll be graduating on March! That's right, my long and arduous journey on my quest to become a professional animator will be coming to an end in just a mere month and a half. That does mean that I'll be needing to work my ass off to make that dream a reality for the next eight weeks, so my output may still be pretty minimal. I'm saying this mainly for those of you that I still owe commissions to, I'm only asking for a bit more of your patience. I haven't forgotten and, if I did, that's what the Notes and Comments are for. Just remember to be civil about it- I've got a lot of heavy-duty work to do for these next couple of weeks, but once I'm free from all that, that will mean more time I can spend on working on projects for the rest of you all! So very soon I will no longer be just a "student" I'll be a real pro!

I've been trying to play a lot more video games lately, if that hasn't been apparent. I streamed Yooka-Laylee last month, and I've been trying to play more of that game on my own time. That's not all, I've also been playing through my old library of PS1 games including, of course, Crash Bandicoot. I don't have the N. Sane Trilogy, as I'm too broke to own a PS4, so I stuck with the original trilogy. My most proud achievement? I beat them all in the span of nine days. Yes, that includes the super-ultra-duper-tough Crash 1! I won't elaborate on them... at least not here. If you guys would like me to talk about my favorite game series, then maybe I will at a future date. But let me just say, those games do not get old... yes, even as dated as Crash 1 is, I honestly find the challenge to be pretty fair. Alright, mostly fair (Grrr, The High Road, Fumbling in the Dark, Slippery Climb). Now I'm sure you're all pretty familiar with how much I love the series, so that probably won't surprise you all too much. That's not the only trilogy I played during my holiday break, though.

I've gotten into Ace Attorney a LOT recently. I played the Phoenix Wright Trilogy on my 3DS and- yeah, I know I'm pretty late on that boat- they're awesome games. I absolutely love them- the cases are a lot of fun, they can vary from tense, to hilarious, to really, really sad, but they're pretty amazing. I'll just say, I'm definitely a fan now, and I'll be playing through the rest of the series when I can get the chance. So yes, I'll be playing through Apollo Justice pretty soon. Also, just to throw this out there, Maya is incredibly adorable, and they made her even cuter in the anime (yeah, I've been watching that as well- I think that's moved me from being "a fan" to "complete and total trash").

I am going to be writing a new fanfic pretty soon. Some of you may have already picked up on it, but that will be my "buffer project". One of them anyway, as a way to at least have some work done in the periods in which I can't draw anything. Fanfic for what? Oh, you'll see, hehehe...

Timeless. Because of those damn computer issues I haven't been able to capitalize on my own series as much as I would have liked. However, that doesn't mean that I can't do that now- new year, new opportunities, or something like that. Not only that but my NEW challenge for the year will actually involve Timeless! What will it be? You'll find out when the first part of that project gets exposed to you all. I'm pretty sure you all will like it, and I'm looking forward to getting that started as well!

My last bit of news for now is that I'm now on Discord! Not just that, but I've made a large server of my own that will involve a lot of different kinds of news about my own artwork, talks about games, movies, and music, and any other sorts of shenanigans that are par for the course on the BluMoonToons line of work! It's called The BluMoonToons' Official Server, and if you'd like to join I'll leave a link to it right here: https://discord.gg/5uvhVSC

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That's all the news I have to share for now! If I've got more then you can expect another journal like this in the near future. So I'll see you all later, and hope that February is a much better month than how January's been treating me!

[rivalsforlife]

AA7 Speculation Post: 2021 Edition

So I did one of these back in August, claiming that it was likely we’d get an AA7 announcement sometime in September for the Tokyo Game Show. Obviously it was wrong. So I am doing ANOTHER ONE, because I apparently like publicly being proven wrong?

This will be shorter than the last one because I exhausted most of my material on the first one, and also there’s less material. There is, however, SOME new stuff we’ve learned since August. ... And I was going to make a post in November but completely forgot, so consider this a starting point for the year. I’ll be covering the leaks, in general terms, and theorizing when we will be getting announcements/releases.

The rest will be under the cut so as not to burden everyone with my ramblings.

The Capcom Leaks

First things first, a disclaimer: this information was leaked through a hack which was highly illegal and compromised the personal information of many former and current Capcom employees, and therefore, I do not condone the methods through which this information was obtained and will not provide any guidance as to how to obtain this information, nor have I sought it out myself. However, I will still talk about then in general terms, because the information is out there already, and the information I am discussing will not compromise any personal information.

In summary: early this November, the hacker group Ragnar Locker managed to hack into Capcom’s databases somehow and retrieved 1 TB of information from the company; this includes a bit of information on ace attorney, which was leaked in mid-November after the group demanded a ransom and, presumably, Capcom didn’t pay up.

The two major ace attorney reveals that came from this are as follows: the announcement of a DGS/DGS2 port for the nintendo switch, steam, and ps4 with an English translation, and a calendar for the development and release of this port along with... ace attorney 7.

It’s highly likely that this information was real, given the level detail and the fact that Capcom confirmed some of their information was leaked, essentially confirming that AA7 either is or once was in development -- more news about this than we’ve had in a long time! But what does it mean and when can we expect it? Let’s take a closer look at the calendar.

The Calendar

Unfortunately, this little thing happened in between the creation of this calendar and it being leaked, called “a global pandemic” or something like that, so this calendar is almost certainly behind.

But what did it say? I lost track of the original, but I did find a roughly translated version someone made (from this post which summarizes some of the stuff in the leaks):

So... what does this mean? First, let’s remember two things: one, this calendar was made pre-COVID and things were definitely pushed back. And two, the Japanese fiscal year starts April 1st, meaning that FY2021 starts in April. This means that as of writing this, we are technically in FY2020 Q4 - where, if we were on track, would be nearing the end of DGS1&2 port production and midway through AA7′s production. (We are almost definitely not on track.)

The pandemic started hitting Japan around April 2020, I believe, so that would be in FY2020 Q1. The DGS ports seem fairly unaffected, considering it’s later in production, and also, the DGS games are already complete, so most of the work would be on translating and adapting the games for modern consoles, rather than starting completely at scratch like AA7. AA7 is a little trickier: it was still in the prototype/pre-production stage, most likely, when the pandemic hit. I’m not tooootally sure what that means because I’m not a game developer, but it’s quite possible that this meant it took a serious hit. Given that there didn’t seem to be a lot of other AA7 data leaked, including in a large schedule of releases for Capcom later, there is the possibility that AA7 ended up being scrapped owing to the pandemic or other extenuating circumstances... but I don’t believe that’s likely, with the 20th anniversary coming up. We’ll see.

Another thing of note is that the name “AA7″ is temporary. Here in the English-speaking world that isn’t a big deal because all the AA games have random titles (like “Justice for All” and “Trials and Tribulations”...) but in Japan, they’re referred to simply with their numbers (GS2, GS3, etc. standing for Gyakuten Saiban 2, Gyakuten Saiban 3). The fact that “Gyakuten Saiban 7″ is a temporary name could possibly mean that what we are getting is not another mainline game. 

However, again, there’s not really anything to support either of these things. I’m just bringing up random possibilities to cover my bases; but personally I think it’s likely that it is another mainline game, and that it is still in development. If we hear absolutely nothing about AA7 for all of 2021, though... then perhaps not.

Now... obviously, this calendar was pushed back. If we’re in 2020Q4 right now, then by the calendar DGS1&2 is hypothetically going to be released in about three-six months, and there has been absolutely no word on that so far. If this calendar were still being followed, we’d have AA7 on sale in Q3 of 2021 -- meaning October-December 2021, possibly in October for the 20th anniversary of the series, which would be super cool. ... but I doubt that will happen now.

So then, when are we getting the games?

I haven’t seen actual evidence of it, but rumour is that they’re pushing back DGS1&2 for a July release and an April announcement, giving three months between announcement - release. This is a shorter period than the most recent trilogy switch/ps4/pc/xbox release, which was announced in September 2018 and released February 2019 in Japan, a five month waiting period. 

When we English-speaking players will get the duology is unknown, too -- the trilogy rereleases took a month and a half before they were released in English, despite already having been translated and the original released in Japan coming with an English language option. (No idea what was up with that!) The duology released in Japan reportedly will have an English option from the outset, though the English released version will not have the Japanese option because of copyright issues surrounding Sherlock Holmes -- sorry, I mean, Herlock Sholmes. Still, we should expect a few months following the Japanese release before we are able to play it ourselves. Same goes with the hypothetical AA7, which seems to typically be around three months following the Japanese release for an English release.

As for when we can expect AA7′s announcement... to the extent of my knowledge, the shortest announcement-release period for a game was Spirit of Justice, announced in September 2015 and released in Japan in June 2016, a period of nine months. Usually it takes longer. Assuming that there’s still that six-month gap between the DGS duology release and the AA7 release, we could hypothetically have AA7 in early 2022, pushed back a quarter, and if the announcement comes nine months ahead... it lines up pretty nicely with an April announcement. If we’re having a DGS announcement in April as rumoured, it would make sense to tie in the AA7 announcement to that as well.

How will they be announced? ... I’m not sure. TGS back in September would have been the most opportune time for an announcement, but I have the feeling that owing to our good friend the pandemic, they didn’t have enough to show for either the ports or AA7 back then and so opted not to show anything. If these games are for the Switch, they could be announced in a Nintendo Direct. Or they could be announced in a Famitsu magazine with trailers released later outside of any other event. Honestly I don’t really know for this part.

Overall, though? This is the upcoming 20th anniversary of the series. I’d be surprised if we ended up not getting anything. Despite the pandemic likely pushing everything back, I think it’s highly likely we’ll get some big ace attorney news soon, even if it’s not quite in time for the anniversary -- of course, the safety and health of the employees comes first, so a bit of a delay will be just fine.

TL;DR: I’m theorizing we’ll have DGS port/ AA7 announcements around this April, with DGS being released around July and AA7 being released late 2021/early 2022, with a few months delay for the English versions.

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Two folks had been ineffective, 14 had been injured and a manhunt was underway Sunday after a gunman opened fireplace at a Halloween secure collectively no longer removed from Texas A&M University-Commerce, igniting "total chaos" as quite a bit of of shy partygoers scrambled for quilt. Hunt County Sheriff Randy Meeks stated the shooting took field at The Event Venue in Greenville, around 50 miles northeast of Dallas, the put at the least 750 folks at the secure collectively had been celebrating homecoming weekend at Texas A&M University-Commerce. No suspect had been acknowledged, but Meeks stated that he would now not assume the shooter poses an instantaneous hazard to quite a bit of the folks. 

Usa today Amid blackouts, big fireplace forces virtually 200,000 to hover homes 

Shut to 200,000 Northern California residents, quite a bit of them left at nighttime by a third vitality shutdown in a month, were ordered to drag away their homes as ancient winds fueled an explosion of wildfires within the San Francisco Bay Situation. The explain’s splendid utility shut off vitality to an estimated 2.3 million folks starting up Saturday evening to be capable to retain far from setting off fires. However the precautionary switch did no longer discontinuance the Kincade Fire from igniting Wednesday. The blaze has now grown to 30,000 acres and was finest 10% contained as of Sunday morning, forcing authorities to impose crucial evacuations for 180,000 residents in Sonoma County. Issues that the winds can even spread the fireplace all the draw thru a important freeway prompted the evacuation orders holding parts of Santa Rosa, a metropolis of 175,000 that was devastated by a wildfire two years within the past.

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Ragged U.S. Salvage. John Conyers, frail dean of Congress, died at 90.

A pseudo Samsung put satellite tv for computer fell from the sky in a rural Michigan neighborhood.

Surgeons in Boston done the first full face transplant on an African American patient. 

"There was never a digicam": Southwest Airlines denies lawsuit claiming pilots streamed airplane lavatory video.

Tree of Existence bloodbath: A yr later, U.S. Jewish communities quiet coping with "important threats."

Paul Barrere, guitarist and singer for the rock community Minute Feat, died at 71.

Usa today 42 bodies came upon in a mass grave in Mexico near the Arizona border 

The preference of bodies recovered from a mass grave in Mexico near the Arizona border rose to 42 folks this weekend. A community of Mexican mothers procuring for missing liked ones came upon 27 bodies within the mass grave final week near the coastline resort town of Puerto Peñasco, progressively identified as Rocky Point, according to explain officers. Extra bodies had been uncovered Saturday. No longer no longer as much as 2 of the bodies had been buried lately, whereas the final had been largely skeletal remains, indicating they had been there longer, the explain stated. Lupita Orduño, spokeswoman for the explain's attorney overall's field of job, stated that it was too early to speculate why the bodies had been buried. 

Usa today As Ohio Order rolls and Oklahoma falls, Alabama and LSU ready for showdown

This weekend in college football was filled with critical outcomes. Oklahoma virtually erased a 25-point deficit within the fourth quarter but in a roundabout draw misplaced 48-41 to Kansas Order for its first loss of the season. However it ought to be too early to put in writing them off as a College Football Playoff contender. Jim Harbaugh and Michigan got heading within the correct course with a demolition of Notre Dame, and Ohio Order persevered to roll having a search relish a No. 1 crew with its rout over Wisconsin. And in a system, Kansas got its first conference grab below Les Miles and sixth for the final decade. Here’s a search at the diversified mountainous winners and losers from the week, as properly as our forecast of the Football Four, which beneficial properties two SEC groups. In the kill, after LSU’s grab in opposition to Auburn, it's now No. 2 on the most fashioned Amway Coaches Ballot.

Usa today World Series all tied up: Scherzer scratched from pivotal Game 5

In a World Series dominated by the away crew, the Houston Astros took Video games 3 and 4 within the nation's capital to power a 2-2 tie. Astros starter Zack Greinke was moving in Friday night's affair, permitting one inch on seven hits, whereas Alex Bregman delivered the knockout blow Saturday night, a vast slam to attach the Astros firmly in front, 8-1. Washington Nationals ace Max Scherzer was the scheduled starter for a key Game 5 Sunday night, but was scratched resulting from neck and lend a hand spasms. Upright-hander Joe Ross is scheduled to exchange him. 

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