February 2017 (Week 1)

+ Improved and balanced wall running
+ Improved sensitivity on controllers
+ Added rendering for tails and hair
+ Started implementing a boss to test skeletal animations
+ Started adding more melee attacks

+ Worked on the technique loadout screen.
+ Got the netcode working for techniques.
+ "MISC FIXES AND OPTIMIZATIONS"
- I really need to make a new recap image.

+ Improved lighting by accident
+ Player character is nearly rebuilt
- My daughter is dead
- I will never forgive myself

+ Reactor boss done. Definitely.
+ Pic related is the state of the third Floor 4 boss atm.
+ Floor 4 music done and in place.
+ Weapon tooltips shortened even further. P sure nobody's read them and people who did likely just confused by the numbers.
+ Enemies intended to act as obstacles no longer TING every time hit.
+ Pause screens darken when you enter a submenu.
+ Fixed a major issue in the Linux build.
+ Think Floor 4 room layouts might be done? Miniboss ones are in place now.
+ Miscelanous fixes related to things that get transported by moving blocks.

+ Managed to unfuck the game
+ Fixed some performance issues
+ New animations soon
+ Lots of small tweaks here and there
+ Fixed shittons of bugs
+ We are still alive
- GM:S corrupted all scripts and most of my backups so there was shittons of stuff I had to redo

+ Enemies fully working
+ Rewrote the seeds script so they operate a bit smoother now
- At work rn so I stole the screenshot from a GIF I posted on Twitter so the quality is ass

+ Did some more work on the map system, it now shows the room you're in.
+ Started working on another stage.
- Thats it really.

+ Made brokeable glass
+ Made 5 new hide places (freezer. Oven, Sink, tent , and a hole in the ground)
+ Temperature changes the color of the screen
+ Made lots of new itens (Baseball bat and ball, Golf bat, Bag of balls, Donuts, Burgers, Gym Weight big and small, Molotov, Handegg ball, broken glass shard )
+ Might fixed some of the lag on projectile weapons
- droping items dont destroy the item for some reason

+ finished battles
+ improved lighting a bit
+ finished basic animations
+ xp is saved now

+ working on this again
- its still barely a game

+ Can sit down in three different spots
+ New room, possible to go there
+ Chosen a font
+ A lot of other stuff that I did not today
- Tablet's acting fucked, so no art assets besides what I have
- How do I change a background's intensity? --> I'll have to work around it
- Going to have to make buttons, and a grid, and put buttons on that grid.

+ Made turn around, jump, fall, and crouch sprites
+ Tried to make some tiles
+ Modified some movement variables because it felt 2fast with the resolution change
- Can't get background tiles looking right, maybe darker colors or make different ground tiles
- Visually, a reverse slide is still a mystery to me
- Art was a mistake

+ Fully polished map creator
+ Now deletes dead space on the map to improve performance
+ Game is actually fully playable
- It has balance and difficulty issues

+ working on inventory system, made some basics
- I was sick, so I haven't done much

- Literally nothing
+ I will not give up

+ finished parallax tile system
- forest sprites dont look good in motion and make it hard as hell to see anything
- gotta make a simpler area to test this stuff out properly
+ starting up enemy designs again

+ Been stepping up my asset game. Unreal's materials are too powerful to let them go to waste.
- System crashed! Took a bit of the week to get back up to speed. No loss of progress.
- Can't sleep. I keep having nightmares about Jofer's daughter.

+ Added Spread weapon
+ Added Normal weapon
+ Added 3 Missiles weapon
+ Half of Homing weapon finished

+ Localization infrastructure changes
+ Repacked UI as greyscale for colorized themes
+ Streaming is good for staying on task
- Got intimidated and depressed over a slickly presented AAA competitor

+ Learning that I've been overthinking things when programming.
+ Getting more in touch with my older, more direct approach to programming similar to when I was younger.
- When i was younger I was a fucking idiot though and wrote a ton of spaghetti code.
+ At least now that I'm older and more knowledgeable on how2code I can avoid writing myself into a corner with bad code
+ Also did some art assets, feel like I've gotten better at doing pixels too.
+ Making lots of good progress has had me feeling a lot better and resting a lot easier at night!
- ...but I'm still hungry.

+ Slow Down fall with parachute
+ Replanned player controller script

+ Made a placeholder title screen.
+ Some animations are now based on player's distance to the campfire.
+ Started working on different animations for female characters.
+ kvdev gave me an amazing set of sound effects.
+ Reworked forest background.
- Still have to clean up the background and some animations.
- Haven't touched the networking code at all since last week.

+ Refactored e v e r y t h i n g
+ Still grinding out them art skills
- Duel Links/Fire Emblem Heroes stole three days of my life

+ experimented with shaders
+ started designing map
+ made some progress with enemy pilot AI
+ made the turkey-bot ai a bit more efficient
- AI takes longer than expected
- performance issues for big maps

+ Ships killed during battle now die on the map
+ battles now trigger only when the controllled ship is attacked on the map
+ fixed bug that allowed enemy to move infinitely
- can't join ongoing battle on map
- NPC battles consist of units attacking each turn instead of gradual losses and damage per turn passed
- Still nothing to show people yet
- put off refactoring again
- every time i look at my ai scripts i want to refactor them

+ Turn order
+ Basic simulation
+ Loading block and building templates from external data
+ GUI structuring

+ Created a 3-part combo attack for the Wooden Mannequin enemy.
+ Fixed my targeting shader to show the metallic/roughness map properly.
- Enemies are hitting each other too much.
- Need to balance damage values, attack animation speeds, and stamina costs.
- Because of the way these enemies are shaped, the charged attack doesn't hit them. Will definitely need to add BoxCast as a different hit detection method.

+ Implemented syntax desugaring for ALL of the complicated flow control stuff in my language
- Said I wouldn't rewrite the parser, then did that anyway, about ten times
- The IR I made is a total garbage fire. It's basically a worse version of the AST, except more of a pain in the ass to work with, and totally useless for writing optimization passes. I might as well throw out all the transformations I've written for it and express them as transformations of the AST itself.
- Discovered a couple of very stupid mistakes in my memory model (that are only a problem because of some details of how I do concurrency) and now I have to rewrite something like half the VM. For fuck's sake.
+ Finally fixed the part of the theme music that's been vexing me for months. I feel good about this.

+ Got scaling text functional
+ New scene: Snowy fields
+ Ink Intepreter now sees calls for BGM and SE change, so I can change music/sounds and trigger events without having to break out of the context of writing in Ink.
+ Most of the introduction is now written
- I'm pretty behind schedule. Writing this introduction is taking more time than I thought it would.
- Definitely going to need to rewrite some of this. Lots of not very strong writing in here at the moment.

+ Texture Work
+ Optimized Camera Collision
+ Video Settings Screen
+ 3 Lighting Options
- Almost quit GM:S and went to Unity
- Didn't quit tho its aight

+ Almost done the kitchen
+ Working on being able to push objects around
- May have to cut several dungeons to get game out by when I would like, going by my current workflow.

- Fixed some ridiculous collision behavior issues which boiled down to "restart UE4 50 times"
+ Improved camera behavior to not be so jarring while moving suddenly to the left or right of it
- Some placeholders created in Blender for boulders and stumps for the player to destroy. They look like ass. This was the furthest thing away from progress possible.

+ Made a nice animation for Norm transition and loving it
+ learned about keyframes in the process
- slow progress because I'm trying out GMS2 for the Betajam
- Botched recap

+ Added configurable mouse sensitivity to Controls settings page, with option to have separate sensitivities (off by default)
+ Fall damage now ignores your armor, same code can be used to make armor-piercing weapons
- Slow week with my main computer down. Should have it running again tomorrow.

+ Added menus
- Menus currently do not do anything except navigate

+ Prototyped 3 enemies (Slime, Wisp, and Eyedolon)
+ Did some flavor text writing
+ Worked out some concepts for the second world
+ Started working on new spells
- Haven't ported fireball
- Took a week-long break and didn't progress that much beyond concepts and prototypes
- Enemy prototypes don't have graphics yet
- Prototyped items are fucked for whatever reason
- Level design halted
- No character animations
- No hit feedback

+ Implemented ammo system with 4 ammo types
+ Revamped armour system
+ Functional item spawning
+ Rudimentary enemy level system in place
- Level generation still fails sometimes
- Still not that much content

+ Game felt boring so now instead of rooms there are caves with semi-destructible terrain
+ Also now the majority of the enemies will behave swarm-like
+ Hopefully game will be fun now
+ Thinking about 2d lighting for added immersion
- Can't tell if the scope it's getting smaller or way to big