Sweet Fukushu

+ Been making my character controller for a long while now. It's finally migrated from the dev/debug project into the actual game, felt like a recap makes sense.
+ Can now create characters from .json files, super flexible for churning out lots of enemies or alternative PCs even.
+ Procedural animation made with IK for the limbs
+ Has Ragdoll support that can get cut into pieces (With each piece getting it's own rigidbody)
+ Cloth physics is also part of the new character system
+ Added a dropkick to the player controls
+ The gameplay feel much better compared to the old system. Really great feedback testing the mechanics.
+ Also remade my lights

+ Weapon trail has been updated. Now instead of doing a line of box collisions I'm instead checking line intersection, which is a much cleaner way of doing it.
+ Started working on implementing godrays, I'm sure it will look corny as all hell but I'm willing to give it a go before I write it off completely.
- I might have won a grant, but getting to that sweet dev cash means that I have to start up a company. To do that I'm required to fork in 6K to turn into company capital. That's quite some money for me and I'm still not 100% sure what all the pros and cons of even owning a company is. Free office space and startup help sound pretty good though.
- Not a very progress heavy week.

+ Won a concept/demo challenge, received 6K in price money and I got offered office space. Things are looking pretty good at the moment.
+ Busy week, attended a social event last weekend. Showcased my game and got some player feedback. Met a lot of devs.
+ Friend of mine displayed the game at Anime central on a arcade machine he built. Receiving fanart is pretty rad, fan-arcade machine is probably the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me.
+ Worked all week to get a special arcade version done.
+ Got some new traffic because of these event
- I've realized a couple of weaknesses with my game that I have to address. The blade not feeling that accurate, better tutorial, more fights etc. The weeks to come will probably be a lot of refactoring.
- Took me too long to get the arcade version up and running, there was hardly any time to really test it to make sure it felt good to play

+ Mostly bug hunting this weekend, with the new resolution change there was ton of bugs that appeared.
+ Working on remaking the sword cut. Managed to get it to be drawn out with a triangle strip, next will be to calculate cuts.
+ For some stupid reason I had chosen a very high shader model for the shaders, this made it unplayable on older GPUs. That is now fixed.
+ Prepping to show the game at a local expo this Friday! Also competing for some dev cash while there.
+ A friend of mine over in US is working on some smaller scale arcade machines, currently making a special build that will work on one of those machines. Cool stuff

+ Resized the screen so that more of the map is shown.
+ Demo done for DD 20
+ Got some character art drawn
- Very slow week, but that felt pretty good since I've hardly taken a day of since mid March.

+ Done with the ninja fight, really tough guy but that's more fun I think
+ Created a forest section and some music
+ Looking into resizing the game screen
+ Started reworking the swords trail, currently doing lerping and laying out individual rectangles, going to look into drawing it with a trianglestrip instead.
+ Finished up a new demo, submitted it a to a type of competition, might win some cash for dev
+ Applied to show the game at a local expo in two weeks
- Anxious about that

+ Almost done with the ninja encounter, that includes new ninja animation, behavior and deadly shurikens
+ Reworked the death screen
+ Added a bunch of sound effects to the player
+ Gearing up to submit a demo to a local competition this weekend, can win some cash for dev
+ I'm feeling very positive about getting a new demo ready for this weekend.
+ I'm having fun with my game, haven't felt that in a long time

+ Decided to make the ninja guy/event into a battle
+ Made a lot of progress on the new generic enemy, decided on making the arm connection to the sword be handled by verlet integration. It looks pretty good relaxed but I really can't figure out how to make it target stuff.
+ Added glowing backgrounds. Gonna tweak it a bit to make it blend better with the original environment.
- Putting the new generic enemy on hold. I have to have a new demo ready in 12 days and it was a bigger undertaking than I expected.
- Have to have a new demo ready in 12 days

+ The walking IK animation for the enemy is look quite all right
+ Made a ton of progress on the arm and attack animation. He (almost) knows how to hold a sword now.
+ Working on new FSM for the enemy
- Can't quite figure out what to do with the arms
- Decided to scrap the old IK arms, way hard to constrain the arms properly. Instead trying out a implementation using verlet integration

+ Got >999 in score!
+ Made a implementation of Verlet Integration, turned out it was really easy setting up. Made a very nice bridge and some cloth.
+ More IK progress, soon I'll make it work with different weapon animations. Managed to get it from the test environment into the actual game.
+ Fixed a broken minigame
+ Scrapped the old enemy class, reworking it with new animation system.
+ Got my game streamed
- Bugs during stream!
- Scrapped the old enemy class

+ Messing with my walking fish, bipedal is tough stuff
+ Read up a bunch about verlet integration, so getting ready to do some test with it.

+ Had some minor bugs in the load/save system that I fixed
+ More IK implimentation, but it is a very slow progress desu.
+ Demo got streamed
- Bugs during stream

+ Started working on a IK/body system to make more fluid /flexible body motion. Earlier I only moved the arm with IK, but that looks a bit stiff. Still a lot of work left on that one.
+ Made a shader for objects so that they "bend" together with the sword slice

+ Made a festival/night version of a bunch of the maps
+ Cutscene for leaving the village
+ Submitted my game for DD19

+ The player can now input a custom title for the MC
+ Made a roadmap for the coming 2 months. Trying to structure my work.
+ Worked on night/festival versions of the maps.
+ Made a silly event with this ninja guy

+ I made this dude and started working on a new event for meeting him.
+ Fixed a broken water shader
+ Teemed up with a buddy of mine to help me out with some environmental art. Work is really eating all my time so this will be a nice load off.
+ It is now possible to load from the menu
- I'm stressed out

+ Lights are in once again, they look beautiful
+ Finished the save system. Creating folder, saving data in and out.
+ Played around with a letterbox. It makes the game look really rad, but it's kinda stupid since it removed a large portion of the screen, might use it for cutscenes though
- Haven't decided on what the sprite for the save point should be

+ Been working on the lights in the game, before they rendered in the wrong order. Now they render correct, but look a bit messy.
- Need to come up with a studio/production name. Is just going by LK sufficient?
- Slowest week I've had in a long time, I'm disappointed.

++ Put a bumper on the TV on the pause menu.
+ Made so that the inventory shows a notification when the player uses an item and when he lose money. It also plays a sound.
+ Finished a plank cutting minigame.
+ Started making sprites for a cutscene.
+ Started working on a save system
+ Good progress, even though I would consider it a slow week!

+ Made a stupid little event for some carpenters, people seemed to like it
+ Messed around with my events (again), now they can be triggered by a dialogue prompt
+ Started working on the base of a minigame (and the logic and structure of all minigames)
- Worked all weekend on the game, didn't get much done. Hopefully this isn't because I was burned out from the work week, that would be really bad.
- Can't upload pictures right now, just take the last one recapbro

+ Made some sprites of some carpenters (foreman and vice foreman)
+ Landed a programming job
- Stopped being NEET, progress was slow before, I didn't think it could get any slower (It could)
- Haven't done much progress since I blew my load on the recap that was for yesterday.

+ Got my new demo ready for DD18
+ Finished up a quest involving getting a cat for a old lady
+ New event and quest is begging to take form
+ Started up a trello, before I've only used sticky notes on the walls of my room.

+ Remade old art to fit with the new MC design
+ Added a stamina meter that gets depleted when the player uses dash or other abilities
+ Randomized rooms for the arcade mode

+ Made a double Jump
+ Started working on a arcade mode, a battle arena where the player traverse different floors of a tower. Battling new/different enemies on each floor
+ Added new event handling so they can be activated by interacting with NPCs