June 2017 (Week 2)

+ Optimized particles to be able to display 10x the previous amount without lag.
+ Finished the action timeline tool.
+ Updated passives again to show what kind of equipment they can be placed on.
- Still not much in the way of progress overall.

+ More props, made a bridge/railing tile set
+ Coins and wrenches now magnet fly to the player if he comes close enough
+ Tweaked jumping
+ Tweaked shooting/aiming, new crosshair when aiming
+ Started working on building interior

+ Easy to tweak spline meshes for level designing
+ Rotating camera that showcases the level
+ Level transitions
+ Player can lose
+ Other misc. gameplay elements (bumpers, boosters, surfaces...)
+ Made some materials that might be useful later
- Need to find a proper name
- Bad Models
- Bad UVs
- Bad Textures

+ Made model for robot enemy
+ Some animation for robot
+ Made some enemy ai to jump over and strafe around obstacles so it can shoot you
+ Made enemy faster and enemy projectile larger and faster for slight increase in difficulty
+ Improved hit boxes and hit detection
+ Gave machine gun bullet spread
- Not a lot this week. Modelling, animating and hit detection screwed me up a bit for time.

+ Made new inflatables graphics
+ Got the title screen updated code working

+ Added knife weapon
+ Added support for deflecting projectiles back at enemies
+ Clinging to walls slows down falling
+ Changed rope sliding

+ Abilities on the hot bar are now saved between levels and sessions
+ Reworked quest system
- Progress is slow
- Still need to optimize fov so that there aren't weird artifacts

+ still working on windows
- gcc gives more errors in optimisation mode, because inliner gives more info

+ 1st of 8 background layers for second stage created
+ Base second stage laid out and modified up to first mid boss
- Been writing more than I would like in my 'side-ideas' document(s)

+ Just added a boss enemy that lays eggs that hatch when it dies
- I'm trying to balance as I added late tier towers and enemies and honestly I have no idea what's broken or not

+ Added combat between monsters, and monster factions. Villagers will now gang up on stray enemies or, if you attack them, on you
+ Added some spells
+ Added a combat system that takes armor and other stats into account

+ Working on sub-systems
- It's taking a while and E3 is distracting me.

+ Added Cannon Enemy
+ Reworked and added Physics based movement scheme. Tanks can now drift.
+ Added simple working Enemy AI
+ Refactored GameManager and all related scripts (FX, SFX, Debug, Controls)
+ New DesignDoc specific to RPG mechanics
+ Recruited DevFriend to help me set up the RPG aspects of the game
+ Set up GIT repo
- Was sick home from work. Hence see above.

+ My sanity is recovering
+ Designed some more ships based on a dream I had where people were playing my game
- After making models of them, I realized they suck
- Rewriting all my shit for a new ECS API is a giant pain in the ass

+ Level 2 miniboss mostly done
+ adjusted burst mechanics and added combo restore
+ a little more weapon balancing
- mysterious bugs are driving me nuts
- semi-slow week

+ Redid camera and boundary collision and corner protection
- But the camera still snaps instead of moving smoothly
- Corner protection is a bitch so there are still some specific bugs.
+ Refactored the push mechanic
- Friction is now too high and old push values make it look like shit.
+ Worked on hitstun
- Hitstun is still unfinished / in researching stage
+ Working on netcode now
- Netcode means less time for me to work on the actual game.

+ Finished badges menu
+ Finished functionality of consumables menu
+ Using items works
- Still a couple of menus to go on the immediate to-do list

+ Small amounts of progress this week, but nothing substantial.
- I can't stop forgetting the image for these.

+ Fixed lots of bugs, ranging from problems with attack button inputs, to the placement of enemy healthbars being way off if the screen ratio isn't 16:9
+ Thumbnails in the Attack Editor are now spritesheets (automatically generated) instead of a 3d model being rendered into the GUI. This results in lower CPU usage when viewing the list of attacks when editing. This also got rid of a bug where thumbnails are missing after running the game.
+ Added a fluttering wind effect on the player's cape when he charges the Rapier for a charged attack.

+ mixel cameras
+ actual win condition
+ multiplayer state sync
- game server inexplicably crashes but only on my VPS

+ lightened everything
+ more anims, gave existing anims more frames
+ figured out how the base combat will work
- refactoring is boring

+ Been working hard for an upcoming convention
+ Monkey enemy design + animations + gameplay
+ Early beginnings of a level-editor like thing
- So much to do before this convention
- Took forever revising a run animation

+ Basic movements (walk/run/jump).
+ Have proper camera who follow and doesn't get stuck, deal with occlusion.
+ Made a basic character model to use for testing purposes.
+ Made a few decoration and textures to start with.
+ Added test scene to the menu options
+ Rest is all planning for player/AI interactions
- Not really satisfied with the animation so I'll redo that

+ New jitter shader effect for bridges and rewinding
+ Finally finished The Big Level
+ Added a handy debug function for creating and destroying bridges

+ about to finish depressurization mechanics
+ bug solving
- lack of progress due to e3

+ implemented buildings with shadows
+ figured out how rooms should look
+ basic structure of the game is there
- still need to figure out how i'm going to spawn enemies in terms of game design, not implementation
- need to work on animations

+ Real SQL via SQLite, should lead to to real SQL injections in the game
+ Progress on new trailer
+ 290 wishlists

+ drawing,drawing,drawing
+ finished the skills in the merfolk roster
- not yet finished the custom art for them