March 2017 (Week 3)

+ Made (shitty) art and animation for the units
+ Made most of the UI
+ Game is finally playable
- I keep finding new bugs every time I play
- Everything is a placeholder for everything

+ Designed Lava environment
+ Fixed lotsa bugs
+ Rewrote saving/loading system
+ This meant that I had to redo level management
- Spent the entire weekend doing it and didn't finish until Sunday at 8 PM

+ New Sand and Jungle sprites
+ Added shell-eject animation
+ Added multiple level generator object support
- Progress is slow.

+ second Floor 5 Miniboss (Idol) is done
+ also Ghost Tubes & Bane Engines
+ added 3 more backgrounds for floor 5
+ reworked the way enemy explosions & friendly fire among enemies work
+ touched up the hitboxes of several minibosses to remove a few weird collision cases
+ haunted blocks stop firing in cleared rooms
+ new track that currently plays when a boss is defeated, though I have a better place for it
+ revolver now plays a reload cue
+ up to 400 rooms, started work on some special floor 5 stuff
+ plus a bunch of minor fixes

+ Vertex shader particles
+ Automatic shader reloading
+ Textured ground
+ Mesh shattering shader
+ Breakable objects
+ Items
+ Projectiles
+ Added bloom

+ Finished Burst system overhaul
+ Started implementation of second character
+ Fixed a handful of minor issues among the mountain of feedback still to be addressed.
+ Some anon likes Archivist Chloe
- Had to re-balance Burst regeneration three times to get it right
- Have to do a ton of art (probably entire intro stage)

+ Made a bunch of improvements to my terrain generator
+ Made some planets

+ Camera lerp
+ Pathfinding
+ AI adjustments
+ New third enemy, shotgunner
+ gameplay balance tweaks post demo day

+ Implemented new skill system
+ Implemented slot-machine-like random generator for skills
+ Added some sounds
+ Fixed some things from DD13 feedback

+ Hotbar basically works now
+ Framework for buying and selling items is in
- The code is a mess
- I didn't think I would make it this far and really don't know what I want the finished product to look like

+ Units have a "building" state before they are fully functional
+ Camera controls with zooming and panning
+ Multiplayer
+ Fog of war

+ All basic stuff seems to be in place.
- Need to figure out an easy-to-maintain dialogue system.
- Need to figure out what, why and where.
- Prolly should begin to replace placeholders.

+ Fixed 3 different memory leaks
- Spent 2 days trying to make paint attack but couldn't fix issues
+ Have fixed some file loading / saving
+ Have allowed user to browse to the install dir if it cannot be found manually
+ Have fixed issue in SDL sound init / shutdown
+ Have added sprite sheet support

+ New UI stuff, including title screen level title cards and 'Continue?' screen
+ More art and patterns for later level 1
+ Buncha bug fixing
+ Added options for background dimming, screenshake and drawing the hitbox in various colors
+ Added how to play sequence
+ Original music for level 1

+ Ships are given random names on creation
+ Bases can be captured and resupplied at and generate income
+ Each army can field more ships if they have enough $$$
+ Ships can use supplies to heal/rebuild mecha
+ Camera now divides focus between the player, the cursor, and the nearest threat, if close enough
+ Reworked code to enable slo-mo effects. It's buggy
+ bunch of other bugfixes and meta changes I dont remember
- AI can't properly defend their bases yet, sometimes fly in circles in battle
+ Experimenting with new explosion FX/ bullet glow
- Need to do UI stuff soon
- Not sure on how I want to execute on a few things

+ Working on how the player gets affected during attacks and knockbacks
+ Made an ability select system
- Ive become addicted to french vanilla coffee

+ Made 2 new maps (Battlefield and Mall)
+ Remade the Mansion map from zero
+ fixed some bugs
+ Added Hats to the game
+ hats protect you from headshots
+ Made new item ( Scissors)

+ modular building assets for the city scene
+ Network character hit, deaths, scores, end game
+ In Game score menu
+ Weapon select menu/screen, click or touch to select weapon
+ Atomic item pickups
+ Host item respawns
+ Hover Vehicle
+ Atomic access for vehicle seats
+ Network vehicle updates
+ Network change weapons
+ Random character spawns

+ Modeled some generic sleeves
+ Using makehuman hands
+ animated 500shotgun
+ updated coding for shotgun routine

+ made a sword model
+ made a fire effect for it
+ redid some animations

+ Added ports: Dreamcast, Mac OS X, Web
+ Added workarounds for SDL_Mixer MOD looping
+ Refactored build process
+ Fixed most if not all memory errors
+ Added more music
+ Worked on game design doc
- No real gameplay additions

+ generalised the player - world interaction system. It should make all other interactions easy to implement
- not much more done this week.

+ Still on the AI and modelling enemy ships

+ New UI elements and art to spruce things up
+ New fonts to similarly spruce stuff up
+ Updated dependent packages to their present version, fixing some conflicts between them along the way
+ Act 2 is 1/3 finished
- Revising the introduction due to feedback concerning the plot's flow and character dynamics
- Still no new music tracks from my musician 6 weeks in now

+ Figured out the problems with an asset I bought were bugs, not my ineptitude
- Still want to use it but feeling less good now knowing how flimsy it is
+ Tryna do more social media/devlogs in the future

+ refactoring code, ugh
+ telegraphs can be any shape!
- the initial design phase is always slow
- no visual progress is the worst

+ Polished new HUD layout. Still unfiinished though.
+ Testing a couple of new background tiles.
- Tempted to rework the day/night cycle effect again.
- RIP old HDD. Lost some time thanks to that.

+ Figuring out how to force letterboxing so that enabling draggable window won't break the game
+ Cleaned up save/load code and added placeholder loading screen
- Watched random GDC videos
- Ultimately still confused at Unity's canvas scaling

+ Implemented Wraith's Attacks, two ability animations
+ Implemented Poisoned Status Effect
+ Did art for Berserker and Thief Ability animations
- Been months since I worked on this

+ Simplify walljump controls
+ Add a start menu
+ Start work on tutorial

+ Created Graphics settings screen which changes screen resolution, toggles fullscreen/window mode, toggles graphical effects, etc.
- Changing screen resolution is still buggy, doesn't move to chosen monitor (on multiple monitor setup)

+ Got enemies moving again, I was accidentally clearing their move direction
+ If you shoot an enemy or run away after being spotted, they will frantically search around to find you again
+ Enemies can now spot you from much further away

+ Skinned and tweaked boss animation
+ Refactored code to make later changes easier
+ Added interface for easy object management
+ Started making enemies for faster and engaging combat
+ Made a blog

+ new interior tiles
+ new pilot animations
+ new enemy sprites