August 2017 (Week 3)

+ Made a new possession shader and feel like a shader god
+ Improved Whimp's run cycle
- Still procrastinating doing background and environmental work

+ fixed some bugs
+ NPCs will search for you after finding a corpse

+ Improved AI even more
+ Improved movement even more
+ Played around with having areas that attract, repel, and force objects in various directions. Could be used for hazards or enemy mechanics
- Was too lazy to record a webm of any of this
- Was too lazy to make anything substantial
+ I'll do better next week

+ More progress and tweaks on enemy stunbreaking code. It now behaves properly for all player attacks and enemy reactions.
+ Modified how super attacks interact with enemy stun to smooth out the amount of damage the player can deal in a single counterattack
+ Modified enemy dodge behavior so he's now vulnerable at the tail end of it.
+ Rewrote enemy guard-swapping behavior so he now takes longer to swap where he's guarding after being attacked.
+ The enemy AI is now almost to the point where I feel confident using it as a base to make other enemies with

+ Fixed bad animation transition between Warhammer's 2nd attack back to 1st attack (when repeating the combo)
+ Fixed bug with player's cape getting stuck inside his own colliders if playing an attack animation that makes the cloth simulation move too fast
+ Integrated the Warhammer's charged attack combo animations in-game
+ Started on the Warhammer visual effects for its charged attack

+ Bunch of shit that doesn't really account for much when the scope of the project could fit in a thimble.

+ Some dialogue,event and sprite
- Doing bandit's leader battle sprite even she is not recruitable in the demo.

+ Traffic System and AI
+ Pedestrian System and AI
+ Police AI
+ VR support, including climbing, touch control driving, drive-by shooting
+ Non-VR traditional support as well
+ Day/Night system that affects the cities lights
- Still need some kind of gameplay loop beyond sandbox messing around. Probably will have a procedural mission system and you can take the missions at phone booth, at least to start, or something like that.

Context-sensitive menus, collision and pathing issues fixed and the selection window only draws the selected player now :)

+ More level 3
+ Most stage 3 placeholders replaced
+ Added some additional effects for bullets
+ Sound pass is mostly complete
- Retooling the stage 3 miniboss somewhat
- Slowish week

+ Replaced font
+ Fixed some fire related bugs
+ Added a small dance animation when clearing the level
+ Cleaned and tweaked some code
+ Started working on new attack/death animations
- Todo list is still too long
- Bad week, couldn't dev too much

+ The boss now has a phase transition and forms its arms when appropriate
+ Fixed minor issue with sliding

+ Three enemies are fully or close to fully coded
+ Many aspects of the player character(s) are fully coded
+ Working on fourth enemy behavior right now
- He has a lot of behavior
- I'm a OMA with a job so I can have dry spells

+ I figured out what my main mechanic will be
+ Created an ability system for helpers and weapons

+ Did a new board (larger) than the "space" one.
+ Hand generation changed, can now properly control the whole deck.
+ Added areas on the board for played cards and some specific zones for Class/Path and Deck/used cards. For now the played cards are icons of the card art, which should be enough with the previously created ui elements to represent the actions they can do (need to be implemented per card now).

+ Finalised physics/collision for 3D minigames engine.
+ Worked on menu a tiny bit
- still tinkering with design of main character.

+ Procedural Stations Specifications
+ FTC Demo - Basic Menu Set-up
+ Character Generator assets complete
+ New story images
+ New music tracks
- Existential dread
- Suicidal thoughts
- Scope creep

+ The C++ rewrite continues
+ New model format getting loaded in-game
+ Alt+Enter now triggers re-save to settings so change persists
+ HUD re-implemented
+ Multi-threaded asset loading (First time I've ever done my own multi-threading!)

- Just made a couple more sprites
- no progress this week, on holiday with friends

+ Fixed some rendering quirks that cut off moving sprites
+ Collision, but hitboxes need work
+ Eggs now exist and hatch into monsters
+ Rudimentary monster pathfinding
- No animations reimplemented yet, will have to create a whole new system for that

+ Fixed the curved raycasts to be relative instead of absolute
+ Started working on melee systems
+ Knockback effect
+ Characters bounce when propelled toward walls
+ AI can use melee as well
+ AI can dodge the player's melee attacks
+ AI can also punish the player and attack him if he missed his attack in the first place
+ Hitstop effect on the melee attack
+ Worked a little bit on the sound side of things, starting to get the hang of it for some type of sounds
- Didn't found a way to render the curved lasers yet
- Probably need to change the way dash works
- Gee, I wonder what happened to designing and modelling mechas

+ Added a new enemy type, lasers.
+ Added another gameplay modifier
+ Came up with some ideas for new weapons
- I'm redesigning the wave generation system for the 3rd time

+ Actors are separated by each of their Panels: Level, Persistent (Player and Camera), Map, Bridges and possibly more in the future like menus, each Panel can be moved around and the Actors within still work fine as if they didn't move in the level, the screenshot shows the first three panels side-by-side. This required quite a bit of refactoring since the Map wasn't equipped to deal with separate viewports and I might have to rewrite it since it currently makes a new viewport for each Panel which might be a resource hog
+ Each Panel receives input individually, it can block any Panel behind it from receiving that input so it can be used for stuff like navigating a menu without the arrow keys controlling the player character or another menu at the same time for example
+ Panel logic should be done for now, I wanted them to be 3D hinged glass panels that rotate into view but using viewports as textures for 3D objects seems to be currently broken in the Godot alpha, so that's a job for later
- A lot of work for what should be mostly a visual effect
- Didn't get much done

+ Simple savesystem in place
+ Some tweaks of the levels making them more fun
+ Attack patterns of final boss are done
- Need to add to and tweak some of the visuals for the final boss fight
- Would need to change the save system would I want to add achievements and a (local) scoreboard and I honestly just want the game done quickly and move on. It's already going on for longer than I wanted.

- only made an incomplete character portrait

+ Figured how to do a combo system and prepared some simple animations to test it out
+ Started working on the wall climbing
- The thing i want to use for the input buffering is not updated for 4.17 so that's on hold

+ Made rough draft of first dungeon
+ Added dart traps
- Going back to overworld from Dungeon 2 is broken.
- Lot's of work to be done.

+ Moved to Unity from Unreal. Taking advantage of the move to be more rigorous with defensive coding techniques and unit/integration testing.
+ Item system greatly simplified with proper Interface types from C#.
+ Unit tests revealed some previously unknown bugs with an edge case in my inventory system. Fixed.
- Moved to Unity from Unreal.
- Most things being pass-by-reference in C# surprises me in bad ways.

+ Finished first enemy, including material and logic
+ Added punch/kick combo, and air kick
+ Added Backflip and Spin Jump

+ finished extending the garage
+ added life-leech mechanics
- took longer than expected

+ Added curved world shader
+ Improved Array Environment Spawning system
+ Improved Character movement
+ Made obstacles that will be added later into the game.
- Dropping out because i want to just make game.. And if i finish my college degree ill just end up the same too. School is too fucking slow and ill just lose opportunities.

+ Improved star particle textures
+ Researched theoretical astrophysics
- Having serious trouble with star corona brightness
- Spent way too many hours in an awful Java IDE

+ added several backgrounds which will fade in and out whenever a song ends
+ not really sure what else I added, probably menus and serialization modification
+ project is almost done, about a week's worth of work left if I stop slacking
- getting sick plus traveling for the eclipse kept me away from my computer most of the week
- I have to figure out how to sell the most unambitious game I've ever made
- can't hit the Labor Day release I was hoping for because my store page has to be up for two weeks

+ All the principal points of the map have been decided
+ two bosses finished
- character sprites are incomplete

+ Found an artist to show me a bit of color theory and other small details work
+ Artist started to work on splash art
- Ididnottouchanycodethisweek

+ Made a credentials-swapping screen so you can log into someone elses email account
+ Can't archive "respondable" emails until you select a reply
+ People were talking in the discussion forum a little bit