August 2017 (Week 2)

+ Only 4 character spritesheets remaining to draw
+ Only 7 character animations remaining
+ Used some friends as gameplay testing guinea pigs
- Drawing makes me want to redo the entire menu/UI while I have more important stuff to do

+ made engine plugin for visual dialog editing
+ start working on dedicated font
- first font tries was no good

+ More level 3
+ Added customization options for appearance of enemy bullets, reduced strobe on default settings
+ Replaced the big dumb jellyfish with a bigger dumber snake
+ Worked out IK for a future boss
+ More SFX work on level 2
+ Got mentioned on a game news website
- Sonic Mania will likely stall progress

+ Gameplay modifiers are in and working
+ Additional tweaks to existing systems
- Need to do more work on the HUD side of things
- More levels and enemies need to get made
- Need to do art or find someone who is good at 3D modelling
- I need to redo the level generation system so it doesn't end up being a million lines of code contained in one script.

+ Finished the basic set.
+ Made a few UI elements that will pop-up when desired on cards in play (Actions, Dice rolls, etc.)
+ Reworked some areas (exploration part).
+ Smooth transitions when meeting an enemy -> starting the encounter.
- Making a bunch of card arts and tweaking the wording takes more time than needed at this stage.
- No AI to test with so will have to do some scripted matchs to test.
- The board is oaky but not really "comfy". Will have to change that later on.

+ Replaced most placeholders on backgrounds
+ Replaced placeholder fire animations
+ Changed fire mechanics: Now it stuns player for a little bit
+ Tweaked title screen graphics
+ Rewrote camera to work better with new level's layout system
+ Got rid of old, unused assets and code
- Todo list is still too long

+ Finished bandit leader and sensei portrait
+ start eventing, about 50% done
+ Finished all maps layout
- Fucked up on characters position during battle
- can't think of a solution
- gotta lock the mc position and limited battler to 2
- decide to use a plugin

+ Added a couple of small touches, like random boxing ring movements to make the fight seem more animated.
+ Reworked the enemy stunbreaking code so that it fires in the correct order and no longer turns the enemy green.

+ Updated pathfinding to work with an uneven navmesh instead of a simple grid
+ refactored shooting and scanning
+ started to work on non-linear raycasting for lasers
- overall not much work done
- guess who still hasn't made a single design AGAIN

+ reworked player controls
+ fixed platform bug
+ finished reworked ground attack1
- could have done more if wasn't procrastinating

+ The C++ rewrite continues
+ 3D model format is finalized
+ Model exporter written for blender
+ Implementing model format in-engine

+ got the new Warhammer attack animations working in-game
+ fixed some bugs in the Attack Editor, also it now respects the custom playback speed set in the Mecanim Animator file
- still need to create more appropriate hit/death animations (and visual effects) for enemies when they get hit with the Warhammer
- earthquakes

+ USCP Character specs done
+ USCMS Character specs done
+ Combat Navigation done
+ New build in progress
- Old build has been scrapped
- Programmer Alpha is AWOL
- Acquired a new Programmer (Designated Programmer Bravo)
- Haven't posted Dev blogs for 2 weeks

+ Cleaned up some code
+ Made AI easier to change for new enemy types
+ Enemies now shoot at the player

+ added slope physics
+ added wall jumping
+ added ledge grabbing

+ More progress on UI
+ General movement function for objects complete and the player movement works with it
+ Pushing and destroying blocks works again

+ Starting to plan special attacks, but have yet to be implemented.

+ programmed stuff
+ game design stuff designed
- simple game runs incredible slow and high memory consuming on gamemaker, may go to flash macromedia 8 again

+ Camera System now added
+ Further tuned mecanim for more responsive animation blending
- I now have to implement grabbing and throwing items.

+ 5 more blessings/curses
+ 3 more weapons
+ added a kill quota each stage
+ some other stuff
+ better gamepad support
+ made indieDB, twitter and youtube stuff for "marketing"
- made someone on agdg sperg out
- fucked up my recap post

+ finished bugtexting the mines, started the ruins
+ smooth sailing because it was mostly playable anyway
+ on track to entering beta by end of month
- still haven't set up business side of things

+ Added some new Saya material that vastly improves her as a character overall
+ Added a few lines based on the same idea in other missions
+ Fucked around with Blender nodes and made some much better planets
+ Did a bunch of reading about star and planet physics
- Got kicked out of the Library of Congress

+ Auto-pencil tool added for easiest difficulty.
+ More fiddling with UI and serialization. Game timer moved to an auto-hidden window so it stops freaking players out.
+ Beginning Steamworks integration so my friends can alpha test.
- Buttons are still ugly defaults.

+ Making random level generator
+ Making inventorie
+ Working on lots of sprites
- Online is on hold
- Too much to do too little time

+ Finished the Boat
- Nothing

+ Character creator pretty much done
+ Intro Slates, and Main Menu done
+ Lore and timeline codex is starting to come together
- Overworld and Combat maps are being done in a non-intuitive way for proof of concept
- Literally 0 character art

+ Played around with materials
+ made some holograms for fake cyberpunk ads
+ cleaned up the movement a bit
+ adding combat
- Missed last weeks recap since i was out

+ Worked on Panels
- Didn't work on it much this week
- No visual progress so have this random tidbit of code from the map instead

+ Ported the game from GMS 1.4 to GMS 2
+ Began adding corpses

+ added a new part to the mech creator
+ modeled a new mech
+ cleaned up some spaghetti code
- still have to add one more new part

+ still working

+ finalized UI style
+ dialogue system finished
+ added icons
+ animations 50% done

+ Added a bit to the start of the game where you have to shave a sheep