Terezi Pyrope: Ace Attorney Development Thread

[Roundy210]

I assume you're here for the first case, which is good because you can find it
RIGHT
HERE

Remember, this is a beta, so a few things are unfinished. Be sure to tell me about any bugs you find in there as well.

Download PyWright, then the link below, and just drop the folder into your games folder.
CASE 1

For help with installing/playing the game,

Installation Help:

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Put PyWright somewhere you can access it. Go into the PyWright folder and open the folder called "games". Unzip the Game ZIP file and place the "BL1ND JUST1C3" folder into the "games" folder. Now, run the PyWright application, click games, and select "Terezi Pyrope: Ace Attorney".

Game Help

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Are you sure you are stuck? Have you tried pressing each statement?

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You're really sure? Okay then...

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Testimony Walkthrough

Tavros' Testimony

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Skip to the end.

Gracer Testimony 1

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Present Tavros' Profile when Gracer says he made a running charge at the victim.

Gracer Testimony 2

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Press the testimony about Tavros chasing the victim around the cliffs. Present the picture of the cliffs when he says that the victim was too slow.

Gracer Testimony 3

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When the witness talks about grabbing Tavros' lance, present the lance.
When Terezi says "1 H4V3 CL34R 3V1D3NC3 TO PROV3 1T, 4ND TH1S 1S 1T!", present the photo of the victim.

Gracer Testimony 4

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Press the statement about Tavros attacking with his lance. Present the lance when he says the lance went straight through the victim.
When Terezi says she has proof that Tavros didn't wipe of the weapon, present the photo of the victim.
When asked why the Daggerlance didn't go all the way through the victim's body, say "Something stopped it."
The evidence you have that proves what killed the victim is the picture of his body.
Point out the victim's neck.

If you'd like to help with the project, there are a few ways to do so. First and foremost, we're always looking for help with art. Backgrounds, characters, anything works. See what the current case writer needs, and get on it. You can also help with programming if you know anything about PyWright, and even if you don't, it's really easy to learn and we have contact with the engine's creator himself if we're ever stuck with a glitch.

Post in the forum if you think you'd like to help with any of these!


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Info
This topic is formatted with green being Alphadin's comments. Blue is roundy. I didn't know what roundy had for the matters so most of comments are green
After a long and sleep-deprived night of playing Phoenix Wright and screwing around in AlterniaBound, I came to the realization that a Terezi Pyrope: Ace Attorney game would be awesome. So the next morning, I booted up PyWright (a casemaker for the Ace Attourney series) and got to work learning to use it. I figured that the best way to make this a not-terrible possibly-decent game is to involve all of the talented artists and programmers here on the forums.
Credits

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Steel Dragon: Story and Sprites
RussW: Writing
Doodled: “Any Part”
Youdont12know: Spriting
perfectlyfatal: “Anyway I Can”
frostedwarlock: Talksprites and BG’s aka “Art Shit”
Alphadin: Paint.net, GUI, and Sprites.
Obsolescence: Writing
cobraCaduceus: Writing
Zuki: Writing
KawaiiMelon: Writing too
Please alert Roundy about anyone one who was forgotten. This is a bit outdated I think

Gameplay
As mentioned, we're going to for a Pheonix Wright style, but a few twists have been mentioned.

• Prosecuter vs Prosecuter
• Non-Canon Relationships (E.I. Vriska didn't kill Tavros)

I'm sure theres more, but these are some of the ones I remembered.
Cases
First Case: Turnabout Taurus
Tavros is accused of Murder by an old FLARPing buddy in a Court-Only Tutorial case.

Second Case: Bloody Turnabout
Karkat is the prime suspect in a murder case, and will have to reveal his blood color to everyone unless Terezi can prove him innocent.

Third Case: The Blue-Blooded Turnabout
Equius is arrested on suspicion of killing a respected high-ranking blue blood, but behind the scenes of this seemingly simple case hides a trail of deception and intrigue.

Fourth Case: Ancestral Turnabout
While looking through the Alternian court books, Terezi stumbles upon one of her ancestor's first cases.

Fifth Case: The Crowning Turnabout
The Heir to the Alternian Throne has been killed, and the prime suspect is Terezi's former rival in court, Vriska.

Bonus Case: Hella Turnabout
A joke case involving Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff
Scripts
A major thing any game requires.
If anybody out there knows how to use PyWright at all, send me a PM or something.

Codes and Tutorials

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External Tutorials:

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Setting Up Case Script
Characters and Settings
Text in PyWright

Alphadin's Three-Choice System:

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label top
bg [BG HERE]
char [CHAR HERE]

list Options
li [Option1]
li [Option2]
li [Option3]
showlist

label [Option1]
[ONLY IF WRONG, WRONG CODE]
[ONLY IF Right, RIGHT CODE]
goto top

label [Option2]
[ONLY IF WRONG, WRONG CODE]
[ONLY IF Right, RIGHT CODE]
goto top


label [Option3]
[ONLY IF WRONG, WRONG CODE]
[ONLY IF Right, RIGHT CODE]
goto top

Roundy's Court Setup

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mus
clear
label court
clearcourt
set _defense [name of defense (will always be Terezi)]
set _prosecutor [name of opposing prosecutorl
set _witness [name of witness at stand]
set _judge [judge name (almost always going to be gamzee)]
set _helper [person at your side, helping you out]
startcourt

Graphics & Sounds
Another key component. We're currently using alt bound sprites and kan return sprites. We don't have any OBJECTION or HOLD IT or TAKE THATs yet. I think we need voices. We also might need misc sounds.
General Ideas
Ideas for the core of the game. Ideas for the core would include

• Cases
• Dialog
• Game interface

Some Ideas presented

• Quirks
• Colors
• Canon Atitudes

Thanks to Well Manicured Man for main post image (Hope you didn't mind), and Alphadin for making new main post.

[Steel Dragon]

Watching this, and totally down for helping with story/sprites as soon as I learn the writing style or whatever.

[cobraCaduceus]

Nice idea. Might come up with a few ideas. How about a flashback case with the Ancestors? : )~

[RussW]

Literally everything you propose in this project is awesome. Consider me on board if you need any help in the writing department.

[Alphadin]

what about a scourge sisters turnabout

[SirPwnington]

Well since Alternia only has prosecutors, maybe each case has you going against another prosecutor, with both of you trying to prove separate people guilty of the same crime?

[Roundy210]

That's actually quite a funny concept!

In terms of programming, I have figured out the very basics of the program I'm using, which brings us this:

[Raikonos]

Nepeta totally needs to be Terezi's partner.

[cobraCaduceus]

How a8out rot8ing partners?
AFTER ALL, THERE ARE SO MANY ASSHOLES TO CHOOSE FROM, YOU HAVE NO IDEA.
a bit of vvariation might be fuckin interesting

[Raikonos]

Haha, oh man.
Pre-murder mode Gamzee as judge. He's a highblood, so it should make sense.

Admittedly I may be taking some liberties with the role of highbloods, but Judge Gamzee is just... it's so good.

[curiousTerminal]

The moment i saw Terezi's name I was like
After that it only got better.

But wait, doesn't Alternia lack a defense? Would there be 2 prosecutors, each trying to get their own guilty verdicts handed down instead of the others?
And YES Judge Gamzee.

[Doodled]

I'd love to help out with any part of this.

Also, the Alternian judicial system would work surprisingly well for this... After all, in the Ace Attorney series, all you really do is prove that someone is guilty through flaws in their story...

Your client being declared innocent can be considered as a side effect to that matter.

But who would the opposing prosecutors be?

[Roundy210]

And Doc Scratch is a partner. He already knows exactly what happened and how to solve the case, he just loves fucking around with you.

Programming Note: I am having difficulty figuring out the Investigation Scripts and the Court Marco, so if anybody out there knows how to use this program at all, send me a PM or something.

[youdont12know]

I can help with spriting if need be. Also this is awesome and you are awesome for doing it.

[perfectlyFatal]

I'll help in anyway i can

[ectoBiologist]

Would the cases that have already (sort of) been covered or hinted at in canon be included? (e.g. Senator Lemonsnout)

[Roundy210]

First thing we should do I develop an idea for the first case. This will be a court-only case to get our feet wet.
Current Ideas from this thread:

Somebody has murdered sweet bro!
a first guardian has been killed!
a scourge sisters turnabout

In terms of sprites, could somebody get me gifs of all of Terezi's Alterniabount expression animations for testing?

[youdont12know]

First case: Some kid was whining about someone killing his lusus. Instead of killing him for annoying you, you help him find the true killer. (It was him)

[ectoBiologist]

First thing we should do I develop an idea for the first case. This will be a court-only case to get our feet wet.
Current Ideas from this thread:

Somebody has murdered sweet bro!
a first guardian has been killed!
a scourge sisters turnabout

In terms of sprites, could somebody get me gifs of all of Terezi's Alterniabount expression animations for testing?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/543003/troll.zip has all of them, I believe.

EDIT: Link doesn't work, nevermind.

[perfectlyFatal]

http://s1195.photobucket.com/albums/...erfectlyFatal/ All of the Terezi talk sprites will be up in a second. I have all the trolls (ALL OF THEM) if you need them. (they're .png but im sure you could change them.) If you put a link to download of what you've made so far i could test it and perhaps add to it if you wanted.

[KawaiiMelon]

lololol last pictures

[perfectlyFatal]

lololol last pictures

ros lalond john gbrt jad harly and dav stridr?

Also - I know it'd be a lot of work but it'd be awesome if there was 12 cases, where each of the trolls is terezi's parnter as well as one with doc scratch.
God. I keep editing this a lot. If you want someone to animate the sprites i could do it in photoshop for you

[Roundy210]

And then there was Nepeta

[perfectlyFatal]

And then there was Nepeta

ys. just ys. Is there anyway you can change the picture at the bottom to like a silhouette of Terezi? I dunno, it was just kinda bothering me for some reason. >_<

[Roundy210]

it's possible, though i'm not photoshop savvy enough to change it myself.

if anybody here wants to have a try, here you go.

which reminds, we're gonna need an objection animation for Terezi. the maximum file size for the program is 256 x 192, by the way.