[T] Maya Fey: Spiritual Successor ●●○○ (Case 2 Remake Out!)
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Re: [T] Maya Fey: Spiritual Successor ●●○○○
Wow, three months since I've been here already?! Jeez, time sure flies by fast.
Well, thankfully (or not thankfully depending on your perspective), I haven't given up on this project, and I don't plan on ever doing so. To be honest, though, somewhat against my better judgment, I think I'll be starting work on Case 3 before I finish rewrites on Case 2. In my opinion, while Case 3 is still pretty short, I do think I put a lot more effort into the character design and the like into it, and I am very close to having all the sprites necessary to get started. Plus I have a lot more ideas in my head as to how I can flesh out Case 3 than I do Case 2. Maybe I can fix up some little technical things about Case 2 just to make it easier to play first, but yeah.
Either way, in case my incredibly long break from AAO didn't already tell you that, 90% of my spare time has been going into my YouTube videos. Generally speaking I have way more fun with those than I do with case-writing here, but then again I still just have these scripts lying around, and I'm not about to just throw them away without using them first. So needless to say, YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE LAST OF ME! (apologies if that ancient CD-i meme made you puke. I couldn't help it.)
Well, thankfully (or not thankfully depending on your perspective), I haven't given up on this project, and I don't plan on ever doing so. To be honest, though, somewhat against my better judgment, I think I'll be starting work on Case 3 before I finish rewrites on Case 2. In my opinion, while Case 3 is still pretty short, I do think I put a lot more effort into the character design and the like into it, and I am very close to having all the sprites necessary to get started. Plus I have a lot more ideas in my head as to how I can flesh out Case 3 than I do Case 2. Maybe I can fix up some little technical things about Case 2 just to make it easier to play first, but yeah.
Either way, in case my incredibly long break from AAO didn't already tell you that, 90% of my spare time has been going into my YouTube videos. Generally speaking I have way more fun with those than I do with case-writing here, but then again I still just have these scripts lying around, and I'm not about to just throw them away without using them first. So needless to say, YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE LAST OF ME! (apologies if that ancient CD-i meme made you puke. I couldn't help it.)
Re: [T] Maya Fey: Spiritual Successor ●○○○
Hello AAO. Miss me? ...No? OK then, remember me? No? Oh well, no big deal. I have been gone for way too long anyway.
The past couple of months I have been totally preoccupied with my YouTube channel, which suddenly has over 1000 subscribers now. I've been finding way more fun in making my videos than I was in case-writing like last year, so I don't see myself returning quite as often as I used to. But I haven't forgotten this series, and I do eventually want to finish it until the end, even if it'll take me a few years (and I suspect it will).
That being said, I did get the news that the AAOV6 editor is coming up soon, so I'm considering remaking the series on the new editor. I do have a whole bunch of rewrites in mind (especially for Case 2), so I'll be getting on that while waiting for it to release. More details on that in the OP.
So yeah, even though I now know that I don't really fit in this community too well, I do intend to finish this series to the best of my ability.
The past couple of months I have been totally preoccupied with my YouTube channel, which suddenly has over 1000 subscribers now. I've been finding way more fun in making my videos than I was in case-writing like last year, so I don't see myself returning quite as often as I used to. But I haven't forgotten this series, and I do eventually want to finish it until the end, even if it'll take me a few years (and I suspect it will).
That being said, I did get the news that the AAOV6 editor is coming up soon, so I'm considering remaking the series on the new editor. I do have a whole bunch of rewrites in mind (especially for Case 2), so I'll be getting on that while waiting for it to release. More details on that in the OP.
So yeah, even though I now know that I don't really fit in this community too well, I do intend to finish this series to the best of my ability.
Re: [T] Maya Fey: Spiritual Successor ●○○○
I'm sorry... who are you?256 Pi wrote:Hello AAO. Miss me? ...No? OK then, remember me? No? Oh well, no big deal. I have been gone for way too long anyway.
The past couple of months I have been totally preoccupied with my YouTube channel, which suddenly has over 1000 subscribers now. I've been finding way more fun in making my videos than I was in case-writing like last year, so I don't see myself returning quite as often as I used to. But I haven't forgotten this series, and I do eventually want to finish it until the end, even if it'll take me a few years (and I suspect it will).
That being said, I did get the news that the AAOV6 editor is coming up soon, so I'm considering remaking the series on the new editor. I do have a whole bunch of rewrites in mind (especially for Case 2), so I'll be getting on that while waiting for it to release. More details on that in the OP.
So yeah, even though I now know that I don't really fit in this community too well, I do intend to finish this series to the best of my ability.
I'm only half kidding
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Someone who was more or less active in this community last summer, and... come to think of it, I don't really remember you either.Blizdi wrote:
I'm sorry... who are you?
I'm only half kidding
Re: [T] Maya Fey: Spiritual Successor ●○○○ (Case 1 remade!)
Wow. It's been a year and a half since I last posted on this topic. Time flies, huh.
Well, guess what, something actually happened! I finally finished the remake of Case 1 of the series on AAOv6.
Despite the fact that this project has totally fallen by the wayside in favor of YouTube and college, I do still want to finish it eventually. I've spent too much time thinking about it and working on rewrites to just abandon it. Though it's probably going to be a long time before I'm completely done, I won't be able to rest easy until I've gotten this done in a non-embarrassing fashion. And now I've made my first actual step in the right direction by finally doing something on these forums. No idea how often I'll be here but if this turns out well then I'll probably be budgeting more time in working on the rest of the series. If it doesn't turn out well then I'll probably just be going back to my usual slacking off elsewhere, lol. But hope you all enjoy anyways.
Here goes nothing: http://aceattorney.sparklin.org/player. ... l_id=82389
Well, guess what, something actually happened! I finally finished the remake of Case 1 of the series on AAOv6.
Despite the fact that this project has totally fallen by the wayside in favor of YouTube and college, I do still want to finish it eventually. I've spent too much time thinking about it and working on rewrites to just abandon it. Though it's probably going to be a long time before I'm completely done, I won't be able to rest easy until I've gotten this done in a non-embarrassing fashion. And now I've made my first actual step in the right direction by finally doing something on these forums. No idea how often I'll be here but if this turns out well then I'll probably be budgeting more time in working on the rest of the series. If it doesn't turn out well then I'll probably just be going back to my usual slacking off elsewhere, lol. But hope you all enjoy anyways.
Here goes nothing: http://aceattorney.sparklin.org/player. ... l_id=82389
Re: [T] Maya Fey: Spiritual Successor ●○○○ (Case 1 remade!)
Wow! First we get a Dilemma update, and now this? Am I dreaming?
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Re: [T] Maya Fey: Spiritual Successor ●○○○ (Case 1 remade!)
I've played through the case. First, this looks like an improvement from the original version, which is good. The introduction of Maya is much less rushed, the series seems to have more of a plot unifying the cases, and our first actual witness is better than I remembered her being.
If I can ask, how did you go about planning this case? I noticed some hiccups in the trial/cross-examination side and want to know how those came about.
If I can ask, how did you go about planning this case? I noticed some hiccups in the trial/cross-examination side and want to know how those came about.
[D]isordered speech is not so much injury to the lips that give it forth, as to the disproportion and incoherence of things in themselves, so negligently expressed. ~ Ben Jonson
Re: [T] Maya Fey: Spiritual Successor ●○○○ (Case 1 remade!)
Well, my #1 priority in this case was to get the backstory to work and to give the characters more personality, especially with Maya herself, as that seemed to be most people's biggest complaint (and quite honestly the thing that bugged me the most about the original version as well). As for the actual case and its logic I admittedly kind of just copied over the setup from the original version, not changing much fundamentally although making efforts to have it at least generally make sense and be easy to follow and play through, but it wasn't my main focus. I was just trying to at the very least make these characters memorable and get the backstory to make sense, that is what 90% of the planning for this case went into over the past 2 years.Enthalpy wrote:If I can ask, how did you go about planning this case? I noticed some hiccups in the trial/cross-examination side and want to know how those came about.
I will admit though, I've never been a perfectionist, and writing serious things has never been my strong suit. This series is by far the most serious thing I've ever come up with (and I'm sure you can tell from a lot of the dialogue in the trial that I wasn't trying to make it ultra-serious to begin with), and not to mention the majority of the past two years was spent working not on this series but on my YouTube videos, which still had a plotline but were obviously just comedy and not meant to be taken seriously. Anyway, since trying to get featured here led to me feeling like I got kicked in the nether regions, I decided that it was an unreasonable goal, and that I would just make something that was fun, enjoyable, and not embarrassing for me to look back on in retrospect. That's all.
[I've got a bad feeling about this, lol]
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Re: [T] Maya Fey: Spiritual Successor ●○○○ (Case 1 remade!)
This is just my nitpicky nature, but I beg ya to fix her arm!
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lol. I've tried, I really have, but it just keeps coming out looking worse than it did before; this was about as good as I could make it look. A good spriter I ain't.Blizdi wrote:This is just my nitpicky nature, but I beg ya to fix her arm!
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I really recommend that you think about replanning this case from the ground up. Like I said, there were a fair number of hiccups, and those aren't all easy ones to fix.
I can recommend some ways to do planning for a case if you'd like, but if you just want to go on to the next case, I'll leave it be.
Spoiler : :
[D]isordered speech is not so much injury to the lips that give it forth, as to the disproportion and incoherence of things in themselves, so negligently expressed. ~ Ben Jonson
Re: [T] Maya Fey: Spiritual Successor ●○○○ (Case 1 remade!)
Yep, I was afraid of this. Responses in red.
Either way, thanks for the feedback. I am at least glad you enjoyed the characterization and the backstory more, at least it's good to know this wasn't a total wasted effort and that the parts that I spent the most time on and mattered most to me actually did turn out well. I probably will make some more changes to Case 1 to further clear up some of these issues, but it always felt kinda ironic to me that I was constantly getting stuck at the part that I originally felt was the least important, and I just wanted to get it over with. I'm kind of torn as to whether or not I'll be starting over Case 1 from scratch; maybe I will, but for now I want to get to work on the other cases in the series. Guess it doesn't help that I've gotten used to not being taken completely seriously.Enthalpy wrote:I really recommend that you think about replanning this case from the ground up. Like I said, there were a fair number of hiccups, and those aren't all easy ones to fix.
I can recommend some ways to do planning for a case if you'd like, but if you just want to go on to the next case, I'll leave it be. Though I do in fact still want to move on, I'm actually curious about this, maybe that could help me in the future and with rewriting the other cases. I would like to hear about this.Spoiler : :
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Re: [T] Maya Fey: Spiritual Successor ●○○○ (Case 1 remade!)
Spoiler : Planning Notes :
[D]isordered speech is not so much injury to the lips that give it forth, as to the disproportion and incoherence of things in themselves, so negligently expressed. ~ Ben Jonson
Re: [T] Maya Fey: Spiritual Successor ●○○○ (Case 1 remade!)
Thank you, this looks like it will come in handy later.
Re: [T] Maya Fey: Spiritual Successor ●○○○ (Case 1 remade!)
Hi, I'm back.
I've just updated Case 1 to fix the many logical plotholes I might have left behind (as a few different people pointed out, there were quite a lot. Kept finding more and more, even after I made this post). Not completely sure if there's still something I missed but I think I covered everything for now
I've also finally deleted the old prologue and Case 2. Since they're not included in the plotline and I'm pretty much rewriting Case 2 entirely from scratch there's really no need for them to still be around.
I've just updated Case 1 to fix the many logical plotholes I might have left behind (as a few different people pointed out, there were quite a lot. Kept finding more and more, even after I made this post). Not completely sure if there's still something I missed but I think I covered everything for now
I've also finally deleted the old prologue and Case 2. Since they're not included in the plotline and I'm pretty much rewriting Case 2 entirely from scratch there's really no need for them to still be around.