March 2017 (Week 5)

+ Added pvp
+ Animated head
+ Added basic arm animation
+ Better woosh for melee attacks
+ Better controller sensitivity
+ Camera can focus on multiple objects
- Removed pvp

+ Added brightness adjustment slider in the Graphics Settings screen
+ Added "Revert to saved" and "Reset to defaults" buttons in the Graphics Settings screen for canceling changes
+ Fixed a bug where the dropdown box would show the choices above even if there's enough space below
+ Added weapon "swoosh" trail effects

+ Made a very basic programmed concept of a boss
+ More music done and implemented some of it
+ Lotsa enemy sprites made
+ Score gives lives every 500 points
+ SFX in place
- Not 100% sure about the SFX
- Not sure what my background should be

+ gamepad rebinding is in!
+ turns out the mouse aim in current demo is SSSSSLIGHTLY off, fixed that alongside fully functional TATE
+ new teleportation effect
+ a few new explosion effects for smaller enemies & cleaning up some shooting effects for clearer combat
+ more results for weapon caches
+ bunch of nerfs & boss pepping
+ a horrible laglaser combo is now mutex

+ Progress on the level 1 boss
+ Balancing to the 2nd miniboss and the preceding level parts
+ Bug fixing
- skeletal animation is the worst
- boss is gonna need a lot of juice
- also kind of a slow week

+ Clean up some issues with the hotbar
+ Items can be picked up off the ground
+ Started working on filling out the AI functionality (Factions and interactions)
+ Framework for quests
+ Shitty UI for displaying quest progress
- Only one type of quest right now (kill x amount of monster y)
- Never enough time in the day

+ Almost done with Blue's base mechanics
+ Finished Blue's idle flight animation
- Still need to implement Blue's Dust mechanics and I am second guessing her original design for that
- Blue's options are stutter-stopping when moving so I will need to implement some kind of easing or rethink their follow code
- Tried a new sprite for an enemy's attack pattern and it was poorly received so reverting it to orbs for now

+ Added new skill
+ Did some work on old sprites

+ Slightly better name
+ Switched from GM to Godot
+ Custom cursor and locked the mouse inside the window
- Still learning the engine so there's nothing else to show

+ Drew explosion
+ Drew powerup
+ Drew tiles for a new environment
+ Adjustments to AI

+ Mostly done with new title screen
+ Tons of refactoring and reorganization of project files
- Still haven't made that wallhug animation

+ got better at making Particle Systems
+ got better at animating
+ melee system coming along nicely
- melee system will still take some time to finish
- had to increase the length of the limbs and now have to adjust the already finished models

- not much progress this week
+ multiplayer implemented, working on matchmaking
- need to make some human-friendly menus

+ SO MUCH PROGRESS
+ Background scroll fully implemented.
+ Enemy now has a KO state.
+ Health and power bars scroll smoothly now and boxers steal small amounts of stamina from each other on hit.
+ Placeholders created for a number of enemy states.
+ Many bugs quashed. Animation system now fully liberated from the tyranny of image_speed. Can now work on implementing things like hitstun!
- Next on the list: making the enemy actually be able to get up after being KO'd, give it logic, and to make the player stand idle and wait for the animations to play out. Then I get to work out doing it all again for when the player's KO'd.
- Still waiting on lots of art to work on some enemy states. Still gotta clean up a lotta art too...
- Gotta port over the rest of the player movekit to new animation system.No less than 8 states that I have to re-time and re-hitbox.
- I forgot to include an image for this the first time around this week FFFFFF

+ Cleaned up exploration interface
+ Doodled some enemy placeholders
- The doodles are shit

+ Finally textured keycard reader
- Binging on another Morrowind playthrough so progress is thin on the ground

+ Added ragdolls
+ Added death by enemies
+ Added dash ability
+ Added stamina for dashing and stabbing
- My own creation became too hard for me

+ Working on environment
+ Loop de loop working
+ Made a tileset
- New tileset somewhat broke the level mechanics because tiles are all different sizes and I have to position them differently.

+ Starting work on redesigning the cave now that the base tutorial is done
- nada

+ Small touches on the merchant ship
- Schoolwork swallowed most of the week as I expected.

+ Wrote a fuckhuge timeline that comes out to seven pages JUST for the backstory of one character and some of the planets she visits
+ Named a bunch of planets that didn't have names yet and estimated their relative positions on the galaxy map
+ Came up with what seems like a really solid approach to queueing up one-shot bits of content that will seamlessly extend to all the different kinds of scripts that need to run
- Actually making that work will be a giant pain in the ass
- I left important planets out of the timeline just because there's a bunch and I forgot about some of them

+ added opensimplex noise as agdg thread said it was better than perlin noise
+ fixed some more vs6 compile errors and removed optimised double bit twiddling code that was causing the compiler to crash during optimized builds, replaced it with standard libc functions

+ Tutorial fleshed out
+ Different types of chests can spawn
+ Chests can drop random loot (just hp for now)
+ Polish bullets
+ New particles
+ Buildings have glass all over

+ NPC action system getting really easy to work with
+ NPCs can go afk

+ finished fire spells
+ made a modular cave system