The game is done and you can play it here.
Today marks the due date for the Phoenix Wright project that acts as my forensics class final. From the beginning I knew the entire development would be a crunch, but I really felt that it was a necessary step towards making me a better game developer. It's finally done and the end result of the 3 weeks I spent on this is entirely disappointing to say the least.
It's more like a virtual storybook than the decently polished adventure game I had in mind. Weak characterization, very little player choice, the illusion of branching, choppy transitions, and general low graphical quality plagued this project, but I'm still glad I made it.
All of this game's problems could have been solved with much more time and care, but now I know what I'm capable of in a tight crunch.
I ended up cutting so many planned features for the sake of time and energy that it barely feels like a Phoenix Wright game at all. I'm not even sure if I'll be getting A or B grade by the end of it. All I know is I gained something from this experience.
I'm still debating if I should follow through with my plans of making a gameplay video and giving a download link to the files online. At this point it may be better to do the same thing I did with DBZ Brawl and post a download link in the video's description, then just treating it as another unfinished project.
More on that stuff later though. Now I can finally get back to making pony RPGs which are infinitely more exciting to me. Finals week starts tomorrow and I'll need all the morale I can muster to survive these last school hurdles before the awesome summer coming up.
I'll post how its inner parts work at later date. right now I just want to catch m breath and separate myself from Phoenix Wright stuff for a while. I want to look back on this with eyes that aren't drooping.
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