July 2017 (Week 4)

+ Proper game website
- No actual progress on game

+ hacking mini-game mostly done
+ cameras move from left to right
+ added an alarm mechanic

+ The Lambda expression totally works
- The new enemy type I'm working on worked for a bit, then experienced some weird bugs that I didn't know how to fix without rewriting it, so I'm rewriting it from scratch
- I have so many other things I want to build for this but I'm stuck in a slump of shitty code.

+ Enemy shoots and aims ahead of the player
+ Cleaned up some stuff
- Prediction isn't super accurate
- Most likely will have to make my own pathfinding if I want levels to be anything other than big empty spaces
- Least amount of weekly progress ever

+ Fixed some bugs with the enemy dodge mechanic
+ Layed groundwork for the player intro and enemy intro states. Once implemented, this means that basic state and frame data work for more or less every player state is done.

+ Added a weaker version of the hitflash effect for larger enemies
+ Decided to re-do first boss and gave it an idle animation, also working on a stomp animation for it
- It's hot as hell and my air conditioning broke, ended up not wanting to do things

+ Rewrote villagers' palette system
+ Made new walk cycle animations for male villagers
+ Changed villagers attack to something that works and looks better
+ Almost finished remaking some old and ugly graphics
+ Started working on new assets for different looking levels
- Villagers' attack still has a placeholder animation
- Level generation code needs some tweaking

+ More graphics, including animations!
+ Monsters with botched A* pathfinding AI (better than unfucked A* for this game, I noticed)
+ Monster eggs bobbing about
+ Started on UDP networking
+ Started on UI
- The pathfinding is occassionally bugged and monsters go through blocks for no reason on those occasions, I wasn't able to find out the cause yet
- Will have to redo almost everything soon, code is completely spaghetti atm
- Code isn't compatible with the networking yet, another reason why I'll have to redo everything

+ Made a couple of NPC sprites
+ Discovered what's causing the jitter
+ Started fixing it
- Need to rework a lot of shit to fix it
- Focusing on that so little progress on everything else

+ Added laser gun
+ Added weapon pickup item
+ Weapons can be picked up and swapped

+ Resources base system done
+ Added pickups
+ Added extra UI animations for sleeping feedback

+ Spent the whole week redoing the animations and moving the animation blueprint onto the new skeleton
+ Added a number of blend animations to add fluidity to the movement down the line
- Will have to look up a proper way of making better animation blends
- Still need to set up the state machine, too slow

+ Business Plan Complete
+ Ship Targeting + Combat
+ Navigation Complete
- Artist got Chickenpox
- Other Artist doesn't have a PC
- October deadline is drawing closer
- Schedule is a month out
- Worried demo isn't going to be done in time

+ Context-aware usage on items implemented
+ Crop seedling placeholders made.
- Dickin around with materials and rendering settings in ue4

+ made npc sprite
+ made character portrait for npc and updated mc character portrait
- character portraits still need more work

+ Working on the final boss
+ Made more bullet types and bullet sprites
- Final boss is a mess
- Still have to make a menu

+ Movement system
+ Heavily modified ship model
+ Added human body to cockpit
+ Basics of enemy AI (still very primitive though)
+ Free open source custom input manager makes me very very happy
- Trying to make large scale objects freaks Unity out
- Need to do some optimizing in some areas
- Enemy AI essentially just wants to ram your ass (no homo)
- Phone quality is bad which is expected but not welcome

+ Did templates for all the card types of the encounter.
+ Did a lot of the planned cards with the tempaltes to fix the templates further and make sure that they have proper fonts, size, etc. (including making arts for the cards as well)
+ Improvements done to various menus and pause menu (Code fixing, ui)
+ Bunch of code fixing here and there.

+ Easy puzzles and pencil marks are done
+ GUI is getting a lot better with each iteration
- Art and music are nearly non-existent
- Still fighting the urge to call it Sudokube

+ Rewritten physics
- Controls are clunk
- Need to clean up code

+ Thought of a better ship design technique and it works pretty well so far
- I'll end up throwing out most of my old ships because wow they really suck
- Day job is heating up again

+ Character look generation going well
- Removed tumblr noses.

+ Death state and level resetting
+ aStart actor for defining the player's starting position in a level (while keeping the player's relative position to the camera)
+ Map and fog
+ Rewind - only movement rewind has been tested, some rewindable actions like object creation and state changes might need some tweaking

+ Parts of level 3 blocked out
+ Sweet 3d effects
+ Some more balancing for level 2
- Art's going at a glacial pace

+ Still working on inventory system
+ Got the game to find an empty space that is the right size perfectly
+ started working on being able to move items around
+ cleaned up art a little
- programming an inventory is making me want to put my head through a window

+ still alive
+ fixed bug with blur-behind-GUI effect not working when near bright light source
- lost momentum with progress

+ Finished the flower enemy + rigging. Just need to make an attack/hurt animation for it. Gonna add a big more foliage to it as well.
- Nothin really

+ Continue working on enemies, their movement and AI.
+ Remade some drone animations to be more believable.
- The AI is mentally retarded. I'll probably scrap the drone rig I have so far and make it fly in the air rather than use Navmesh, there is a tutorial that explains how to do that.

- Slow progress due to moving out
+ Organized files and places for faster and organizated deving

+ new skeleton is in the game and working
+ added missile barrage
+ added recoil
+ added (light) aim-assist
+ fixed some annoying bugs
+ adding some variation to the strafing animations
- tilting doesn't work too well with the new skeleton
- enemies still use the old skeleton
- still a lot to do

+ Did a few enemy sprite
+ Putting npcs on the maps
+ Found a way to stop the battler sliding
- gf said battler sliding was better :(

+ More enemies
+ Changeble weapons
+ Did something for the ludum dare
+ Got some music programs and sound effects going
+ New art guy in the team!
+ Boss in progress
- Making online stuff it tough
- College classes coming back, stuff will slow down
- Code for random room generator is not working well anymore

+ Charged punch implemented, but need interaction with enemies, ui maybe etc...
- I'm barely working on this so I will keep it as basic as possible and wrap it up asap

+ The C++ rewrite continues
+ Full key rebinding
+ Sound mixing and playback with ALSA
+ Menus rewritten in new IMGUI style

+ Started working on new gamemode, nothing works yet
- Not much progress because it's summer and I'm a lazy motherfucker

+ fixed character shadows by turning them off in the character is in shadow
+ added flashier animations to the new sprites
- everyone hates the new sprites

+ Auto Battle finished
+ Majority of spells are now in-game
+ Art for MC is mostly finished
+ Changed to Random Encounters
- Lots of refactoring