January 2017 (Week 1)

+ scrambled together a bunch of rooms for the demo
+ made some new music
- i feel like i did a lot more but forgot already

+ Basic object lighting system, based on four nearest lights
+ Emissive textures
+ Wrote a neat script for Blender to generate UVs the way Radiant does
- I'm sick of the current map, going to cannibalize it and the previous one into something bigger.

+ two more weapon keywords (continuous, align)
+ ice wyrm now exposes it's innermost feelings to you when damaged enough
+ reworked a floor 2 miniboss almost completely
+ smaller explosions, recolored debris, bg color changes
+ several enemy tweaks and changes, firepipes working properly now, moveblocks have outlines
+ dd12 feedback changes implemented sofar: ui doesnt flicker when photosensitive mode is on, pickups have a consistent hitbox, tutorial forcefield cable leading to it's generator has been highlighted and the teleport hint moved a bit further down, working through the rest right now

- Made falling blocks-traps to reappear over time
- movement/sprint work:
- made checkpoints
- made a lot work on cutscenes
- made dialogue choosing options
- wrote dialogues and translated them into another language
- player is able to fastforward dialogues now
- created musicbox object instead of using some basic scripts for music control
- upgraded one song, made another one
- added some sounds
- had a war with bugs and glitches
- prepared tutorials/hints
- uploaded early rough demo to Demo Day

+ Forced the game into a playable state
+ Music added
+ Soundeffects
+ Rudimentary AI
+ Icewall spell
+ Spell interactions with the world and wizards
+ More menus

- too lazy to recap today

+ Added bunnygirl character
+ Added 3 moving bubbles that despawn/respawn
+ Watergun shot longer and timed for buttonpress
- Collision for shooting bubbles didn't work properly

+ Finished 14 levels for the demo
- Couldn't finish the first boss

+ Improved slope movement
+ Added flag drop down platforms
+ Added collisions and enemy pushing
+ Made a new special attack
+ Figured out art style for levels
+ Moved plant deformation to a vertex shader
- Didn't make it for demo day
- Have to redo all the animations

+ Added basic enemy
+ Added basic stab attack and enemy damage
+ Added targeting system, though it needs refinement
- Animations and lighting need work

+ Stump enemy + animations
+ Another enemy
+ Tree
- No demo

+ The run cycle is done.
- I'm so slow making sprites it's not even funny.
- The character is still missing some sprites.

+ play my demo
+ misc. menu work
+ make camera animation skippable
+ new sound fx
+ tune down some of the absurd lategame packs
- I might actually be dying

+ Started on map gen
+ 2nd booster finished
+ small graphical tweaks
- didn't do demo day
- probably about to hit a wall on map gen
- might need to rewrite bits of code for delta_time implementation if can't find a good hack

+ Still working on camera
+ New years resolution is to finish this fucking game
- Missed Demo day because it's not playable yet

+ hastily added a shop for DD
+ started refactoring said shop(bad, bad code)
+ started refactoring my age-old PlayerController
+ started splitting up the main-menu
- lot of stuff to do, not sure what takes priority
- still shit graphics/assets
- weird bugs in the demo eat up time

+ Rewrote the representation of "scenes" (menus, gameplay modes, etc.) along with the parts of the input system that use it. The new way is much less error prone because combinations that are supposed to be impossible are no longer allowed by the type system.
+ Rewrote the asset loader to work with the new scene model. Now if something goes wrong it will show an error screen instead of just crashing the program. It's also fewer lines of code than the old version thanks to macro magic and Rust's new error-throwing syntax.
- The actual game part doesn't work right now

+ player drop shadow
+ work done on fitting animations together in-game
+ lots of rendering effects explored
+ a bunch of new characters (decision made to go for a "creepier" visual style)
+ new animations for the player character
+ gems and other pickups
- gem shader not working properly in Unity (exploring alternatives)

+ Animations for spider + elf gal

+ Mini Menu
+ Npc and art concepts
+ Screenshake/Pause/Resolution options
+ Fixed shader bug
+ More clothes for the player
+ More places

+ My first entry. Created an open source crimsonland clone. More content will be here soon!

+ Started Devving!
+ Tile Map, Pathfinding
- I have no scope and I'm scared

+ First recap!
+ Chunk generation with noise
+ Firstperson view and walk works somewhat
+ Took this week off from work, maybe progress!
- AGDQ is going on
- Panicked when trying to choose a good dev name
- Scared of animating

+ Mostly just art stuff this week
- been trying to think of a clean way to handle foreground and background tile layers
- i'm gonna be out of town for nearly a week so rip any actual deving

+ Added two characters
+ Changed interactive item select graphic
+ Received and implemented original soundtrack

+ added sprite object system with textfile-defined animations.

+ Released demo
+ No complaints about the core of the game, which was good
- Lots of complaints about other things, collisions, getting to places where you shouldn't go, the camera, graphics, etc.

+ More work on the shop
+ More work on NPC's
- Need to look into adding Delta time, 60fps and other things to make the game more fun
- Needs a lot of polishing
- Needs its own sound and music.

+ Conversation systems implemented
+ 8 Scenes set up, 2 completed
+ Main Menu functional, working
+ Particle systems set up and polished
+ Finished rewrite on the game's plot and story
+ /- Switched to Unity. Switching to Unity took me a bit of time and a lot of money. Unity's letting me do stuff I wouldn't be able to easily do in Visionaire Studio.
- Still haven't submitted my shitty demoday entry. Holding out hope I can add enough to it that it lasts more than 2 minutes in the six hours(?) I have left to push it.

+ Simple main menu with settings
+ Deadzone and control modes can be changed in settings
+ Made landed behavior easier and more predictable
+ Lots of lights added to carrier
+ Nose gear light and headlight on fighter
+ Little nebula cloud effects on the carrier landing scenario
+ DD12 release
- Very possibly the last build of this project

+ You can now load into maps from the strategic map!
+ How soldiers die is now recorded
+ In juries occur after a mission completes, less than 50% health will cause an injury which needs to be waited out
- Busy as fuck so it's sort of light

+ Started design work on new obstacles and level variations
+ Small tweaks on some old assets
- Missed Demo Day 12
- Got new GPU. This kills the dev.

+ Submitted something for demo day
+ Tutorial workflow pretty good
- Didn't make much content
- Lots of things silently broke in the leadup to DD

+ Added a new enemy type that shoots projectiles
+ Fixed a ton of bugs relating to projectiles
+ Added leveling and a skill tree
+ Created 4 new attack types
+ Started a better UI
+ Made the targeting indicator work with the new attack types
- Still barely any assets to make it actually mushroom-related
- Issues with how targeting indicators should work

+ Sounds are "complete", went with a less is more approach
+ Laid groundwork for achievements and recording player meta stats (times died, cumulative points, etc)
+ Gonna to do music this week, I have no clue what I'm doing

+ Nailed the boat mechanics down, physics were a bitch (big success this one)
+ Modeling work (Bar+brothel exterior is pictured)
+ Added the halfdeck frame to the builder

+ experimenting with creating tile shapes and randomization
+ began work on first stage
+ created procedure for first floor
+ randomly places stairs of random direction
+ began working on 2nd floor procedure
- nothing exists in this project besides stuff for random floor generation

+ started again after hiatus
+ started remaking menus
+ drew world map
+ a lot of misc level fixes in overworld

+ Modified the demo day room a bit and added menus to boss doors
+ Added the difficulty differences to the Ice boss
+ Buffed [Cyan] a bit
+ Fixed some demo day related bugs
- [Shade] is always broken

+ Demo Day 12
- Last minute as fuck
+ But I made it, maybe one day I'll get it in on time

+ Finished gameplay
+ Cleaned up all the runes
+ Added juice
- Not sure if the game is too hard or if I'm bad at it
- Don't have any background or sound