Here goes nothing...
Hey there. For a few months now, I've been toying with the idea of making a fancase. Eventually, the plot started forming itself in my head, and before I knew it, I started collecting music tracks, brainstorming characters, thinking of contradictions and beginning a full-scale script. It was initially meant to be a private thing amongst me and the (admittedly few) AA fans amongst my friends. Unfortunately, my ambition was a tad too much, and so I came to the realisation that I'd need to overcome my fear of posting here, stop my lurking, and post the damn thread to try and drum up attention and support. So here we are. Let's hope it works, eh?

CONTEXT: The case takes place two months after Turnabout Succession. Apollo has not had a case since, and Phoenix is away on business. All in all, things are pretty low at the Wright Anything Agency, until Apollo receives a request that throws him back into gear...

"When a murder takes place at the funeral of the late mayor, funeral director and war veteran Emilio Balmer is arrested. A trained sniper, it seems as though he could be the only culprit, yet he desperately clings to his innocence. Apollo takes his case, and though the circumstances are dire, the odds are tilted even further against him when a certain piece of game-changing evidence reveals itself. Suddenly, Apollo finds himself thrust into a labyrinthine case; a case of blackmail, military scandal and, of course, murder."

That's the gist of it. I suppose I should move onto the specifics now, right? Is that how this works? Okay then.



Of course, we shouldn't forget the newcomers either. Here are the ones to look out for.



Well, that should be about it. I haven't made much in the way of progress, in the long-run because hey, I'm just one dude trying to learn to sprite, use PyWright and all manner of other stuff at the same time. Still, here's a progress report, I suppose.

PLANNING: 90%
EVIDENCE: 95%
SCRIPT (Written): ??% - Only a few pages so far, so not much, though I should pick up the pace soon enough. Summer, yay!
SCRIPT (PyWright): 1% - I have all the "Check" options nailed. I am not good at PyWright.
BACKGROUNDS: 90% - Though the ones I do have really could do with tidying up.
SPRITES: 1% - I'm perhaps the worst artist this side of kindergarten. One character's sprites are mostly done but that required minimal effort.
MUSIC: 99% - It mostly comes from the GK2 soundtrack, with some tracks pulled from AJ:AA where necessary. Character themes have been taken care of, though the (currently nonexistent) intro cutscene needs suitable music.

And... That's it, right? I think that's it. Hopefully I managed to catch at least someone's interest and won't go running out of here in shame or anything like that. You people seem pretty nice and I've seen for myself that you get stuff done, so with any hope some kind soul will be willing to chip in and help out with my little brainchild.

If you're still reading at this point, I guess I should say - thanks in advance!

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Last edited by PiGreat on Sat Jul 26, 2014 3:18 pm, edited 4 times in total.

Like I said before I'm willing to help out wherever possible as long as I have time.

Although, I've been spending a lot of time actually *playing* fangames, I don't really have an excuse when it comes to being busy...

Sounds interesting! I don't think I can help with anything,but if you need spriters you probably should go to the request thread.

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Just a tip, I would save sprites for last, get the actual case done before you start to work on the characters, if need be, just use stock sprites to test

Will do, thanks!
Thanks for the feedback so far, by the way.

EDIT: I'm free for the summer now, so I can finally start putting some back into this. Time to get it off the ground, I suppose.

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Well. I lost all of my progress due to the sudden and untimely death of my laptop. I got a new one today, however, and I've been brainstorming a new project in recent days, so I suppose we can consider Hallowed to be dead and buried as a failed first attempt.

I guess this can be locked and whatever, now. RIP.

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This is why backing stuff up on Dropbox/OneDrive/iCloud/Whatever is a good idea

Really? that's sad to hear. this seemed like a good project.But why do you just give up on it? Did you have made too much progress to start everything again?

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Yeah, basically. That said, I had a backup project in the works before everything fell apart so I'll begin work on that on a new, less terrible laptop. It'll be a full 5-case fangame. Once I've made enough progress on Case 1, it'll probably have a thread up.

In short: Many apologies if you were looking forward to this, but with any luck Phoenix Wright: Court and Condemnation* will make up for it. Sorry for any inconvenience. I'll be more careful next time for sure.

*Name is a placeholder. For now.

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