December 2016 (Week 1)

+ Worked on ships
+ Saw some wild names on tombstones and stole a few for my characters

+ First recap for the game
+ Overworld/Battle scene switching works
+ first prototype for battle system works
+ Laid the base for leveling up
+ came up with card system to use in combat
- still haven't decided on a them, might go with viking/valkyrie-inspired magical girl
- this means no models for anything
- haven't started working on inventory, equipment, dialog system, quests, enemy AI, saving/loading, etc yet
+ have come up with a different targeting/movement system in battle
- haven't coded t yet

+ Completed data entry for the passive and valeo systems.
+ Completed the passive and valeo GUI screens.
+ Optimized GUI drawing so it won't chug in certain menus on weak machines.
+ Did a bunch of art ranging from icons to character graphics.
- Most of my progress was boring so I didn't post it in AGDG. Sorry, whobros.

+ all menu codes has been redone now (including store)
+ added 1h weapons
+ option to turn off screen shake
+ added area names
+ made map screen smaller so you can see entire map
+ added animations for portraits
+ fixed some minor issues
- 1h animations are kinda crappy

+ First recap of the game, so will just write things done recently
+ Started working on crouching/sneaking animation
+ did some movement animations
+ did casting, shooting and attacking animations
+ made few idle states (sword, bow, empty handed)
+ recolored tiles
- still not a game
- still much work to do

+ Finishing up juice on combat mechanic, as well as eneral touch ups to how it works
+ Finished Modelling Player Character (including cleanup)
- Stillw orking on the texture for the player model
- Yet to model Wand
- Yet to clean up/make efficient the only enemy model I have
- Yet to work on animations or even rigging

+ Almost all floor 4 visual assets done. (Only props left)
+ 4 new enemies.
+ Valves. Shoot them to toggle some environmental features on and off.
+ All the above (plus several Floor 4 enemies that weren't used in the demo) linked up in the editor, room layout production started.
+ Whoops turns out changing language in the in-game menu crashed. Fixed that.

+ Fixed 3 game breaking bugs
+ Everything seems to work correctly
+ Uploaded new build to itch
+ Already received feedback on it
- No new content on new build
- Kinda burnt out after fixing so many things

+ Working on options menu.
+ Got the options themselves working.
+ Ini file handling for saving options
+ Scanline shader is more or less done and toggleable.
+ More progress on the second stage.
+ Menu music
+ Main theme song
+ Death music
+ Tiled the second stage (what there currently is)
+ Made skeletons
+ Silly skeleton minigame
+ Still exploring more design ideas but nothing implemented yet.
+ Actually managed to spell my game's name correctly this time.
- Minimal art progress so using infringing assets
- Afraid of running out of ideas too quickly and having a game too short

+ Destructible stuff with hp bars
+ Combo system
+ Animated lava and clouds
+ Bumpmaps working
+ 20 enemies on screen without fps drop
- Jump physics feel like shit
- Need to split animations on smaller files
- Can't get enviroment maps working
- Placeholder assets everywhere

+ Equipment submenu
+ Scrolling system for equipment submenu
+ Equipment weight system partially hooked up
+ Experience system almost complete
+ Started updating the tumblr with daily webms

+ Mostly finished with fixing up the Ice boss's existing moves
+ Modified its color and some icons for improved readability
+ Added mouse support to the menus
+ Down Ice now causes a persistent AoE damage effect on its explosion location that lasts about 15 seconds
+ HP potion nerfs as they were too good
+ Improved the vertical warp function of the lightning weapon so now it makes more attempts to warp instead of immediately failing
+ Added Forward and Back Air Dashing; It is now slightly faster than ground dashing
+ Jump Kick's hitbox now comes out sooner; Horizontal speed also increased
- Trying to think of how the boss's last moves will function

+ Made a rough demo
+ Demo is fun, at least for a few minutes
+ Added a health system, enemies, bullets etc
+ Submitted to Dino Jam and plan to continue development
- Didn't get as far as planned with the game
- Very, very few downloads (3)

- Nothing this week, got back to work this afternoon.
+ I made a card fighting game (this has nothing to do with the actual game)

+ worked on new explosion effects
+ made player corpse stuff work mostly
+ I slept a lot and it was nice
- thats it

+ finished two armor sets
+ fixed a lot of shitty bugs
- aim animations still wonky
- boring textures

+ Can now select, and give orders to, multiple units
+ Units can now "aim in" which increases line of sign, accuracy, and slows movements
+ Contextual shoots
- Visually not a lot has changed
- Really need artist

+ Blocked more of the first area of game
+ Got dialog system working
+ Make selectable magic
+ Fixed bugs

+ Javascript works in the game
- JS will probably let the player get into all kinds of trouble/sequence break
- realized using the same family of templates is going to make all sites feel samey (all via Bootstrap)

+ Added ledge grabbing complete with ledge grabbing animation
+ Added ladder climbing animation
+ Some forest backgrounds and paralax scrolling
+ Changed it so the character doesn't change into another object to do their attack animation.
+ Added official art to the website
- That last one was a lie.

- decided to kill the project
- it's too boring for what i have now
- project will get out of scale to increase more features into it
+ Thanks for all the support from /agdg/ when deving this.
+ learnt a lot during the dev.
+ Planning for next project, probably will have something to show next month.

+learned basic modeling and rigging.
+ downloaded engine.
- can't animate the models cause I rig them incorrectly.

+ a* pathfinding based on tiled maps
+ enemies with animated melee attacks
+ lasers
+ enemy expression bubbles to replace health bars
+ fixed enemies escaping level after colliding with player
- they still do it when in ragdoll mode because it uses default physics
- wasted a bunch of time fixing editor scripts which broke in the latest engine version