October 2016 (Week 4)

+ First five minutes is about ready to begin production, thanks to various art assets having been completed
+ Produced temporary ambient music for the game
+ Recruited some outside help for the game's soundtrack
+ Created a VOX filter to make it easier to voice act for Voshim
- Due to time constraints, I'm switching back to first person perspective gameplay to decrease development time required for art assets

+ able to name yourself and town
+ basic quest system is almost finish
- no other progress because busy preparing for interview
- game is terribly low on juice

+ grappling hook is no longer shit
+ expanded map system
+ added back old enemies
+ spell system got removed, replaced with weapon switching and weapon specials
+ new ice effects
+ new fire effects
+ hitting frozen enemies doesn't oneshot them
+ new chest sprites
+ new portraits
+ new sound effects
+ added graphics settings
+ added toggle fullscreen
+ added armors
+ removed relics

+ Tutorial mostly done.
+ Game is more blue
+ Two new room types: Vault and Secret
+ New weapons aquisition particle effect
+ More sprite tweaks for better visibility
+ Price fixin' (Shops)
+ More rooms
+ Stage 3 theme done

+ scrapped together halloween game out of beer and guts at last minute
- wasted most of two weeks making other things i did not use
- i had better work on jetpack robot game again

+ Added ropes and climbing
+ Added moving platforms
+ Added pushable objects
+ Updated water visuals
+ Several bugfixes and adjustments

+ finished dialogue system
+ finished second character sprite
+ added more enemy types
+ improved combat system to use dark souls scaling
+ hit points increment over enemies' heads like in dark souls
+ player health is now shown by a life bar
+ ui messages are now more rogue-like

+ Movement working almost identically to the classics
+ Able to jump up through floating platforms from underneath to keep reliable movement
+ Health system is in
+ Magic (item consumption) system is in
+ Dagger and axe sub weapons in
+ Primitive enemy spawning system
+ Room transitions work (faster than the webms I've posted)
+ Recovery system in (will be carefully balanced as to not remove challenge)
+ Working on music
+ Working on character design and sprite making
- I'm shit at art.

+ inventory actually works
+ medkits can be used
+ doors work
+ code input to unlock things works
- starting to lose motivation and direction
- will be busy in the coming weeks

+ You can now move while shooting in the air with the lightning weapon
+ Bunch of boss work
+ Refactored HUD a bit; added quickslots to it
+ Implemented a new enemy tell
+ Aseprite makes drawing rectangles and other basic geometric shapes easier
- Probably won't finish boss fight before DD11 due to distractions

+ Enemies now spawned by map location
+ Enemies spawn with their according map tile when the game board scrolls up
+ Beginnings of recruiting new units from cities
- showed to a few friends, one was 'triggered' by the loli class, the other laughed at the 'assman' name for the asset manager
+ both thought it was a p. cool game

+ started a new game
+ announced a new game

+ Started working on level editor
+ Ground and platforms
+ Object placement
+ Object transformation
+ Layers with parallax
- No gameplay progress

+ Made a background and some forground tiles
+ New character; Bunnygirl
+ Fixed an issue with soft reset
+ Start button also works for options now

+ Added sound design
+ Added controller support
+ finished
- not sure how to go from engine to installer/.exe

+ Gameplay for Swinging enemy feels nice and juicy
+ Placeholder animation is growing on me
- Dev is still minimal because of school work
- Need to design a logo

+ nonstop drawing, going through /ic/ sticky, learning to use tablet
+ can run around a room
+ basic metroidvania map layout finished, boss concepts finished, concept art of a number of them
+ some dialogue scripted
- barely anything done in game maker
- have a couple people offering to program game, considering just going full art+story guy and having someone else code game but I kind of want to one man army

+ Started with the plan to make a isometric shooter with a gimmick
+ Made two textures for the road
+ Made a player ship, enemy ship and enemy tank
+ Added basic shooting, destroying enemies, getting hit, dying

+ Found some time for the project.
+ Finally thought of a name for the game.
+ The character now has a hairstyle.
+ The engine is pretty much done
+ The graphic assets are getting remade.
+ Rain!
- Mixels are still plaguing the fullscreen.
- The progress is slow.
- Having a hard time making the art direction consistent.

+ Addressbook
+ More sounds
+ danker background
+ ui polish

+ Items
+ Saving and loading
+ Party management screen
- So many nondev things to do

+ Worked on the dash move
+ Fixed some bugs
+ Improved the camera
- Carpal tunnel syndrome is killing me

+ Title and title screen
+ Fleshed out area descriptions
+ Expanded explorable area
+ Look command implemented
+ Examine command implemented
- Still a shitty text adventure
- Still fragile as fuck

+ improved camera tracking
+ added SCREENSHAKE
+ added some sound effects
+ made some checkerboard tiles for demoday
+ added spikes
- still no enemies for the demo
- player animations still not fully done
- not close to enough content for a meaningful demo
- oh god what do i do

+ Back from the Dead
+ New Physics
+ Mediocre scripting
+ Some semblance of a design
+ Long ass story
+ Working on weapons

+ add scarey pumpkin (explodes)
+ add scarey skeleton (dry-bones style)
+ Non-scarey slime king (spawns smaller slimes)
+ AOE spells
- not that scarey desu

+ More resources
+ Added more tools
+ Added more creatures
+ Added armor
- very boring
- nogame nodev

+ Add rough model for enemy
+ Trigger events based on parameters
+ Level Design
+ Fix weapon models + textures slightly
- Everything needs to be re-textured and models fixed

+ I got the design to look way more detailed just by messing around with the topology and separating random pieces into a different mesh and turning random edge loops into actual visible features
- I still have 4 million more ships to make and I'm goofing off writing about the fucking skeleton war

+ Redid entire asset-loading system to use LibGDX's AssetManager
+ Map loading is now multithreaded
+ There's now a loading screen with a "Press Space to start" prompt

+ Added a magic bar to the hud (and removed stone counter)
+ You now regain magic power by killing enemies
+ More experimenting with new attacks
- Still not sure what kind of attacks I want in the demo, and no new sprites yet
- Encountered a crash I haven't been able to reproduce