August 2017 (Week 4)

+ Created particle effects for the impact of the warhammer charged attack
+ Added ability for an attack to spawn prefabs at any point in the attack animation

+ Players are sliced upon death

+ Bunch of shit done. Entirety of first level either implemented or placeholdered. I'm not going to post the whole changelog, we'd be here a while.
- Local minimart started charging like twice as much for a 40 pack of Bonds, the pricks.
- The list of programs and people involved is more impressive than the game.

+ Implemented inverse kinematics for the player and enemy arms.
+ Reworked the AI so they dynamically swing their swords towards the player. Also gave them the ability to dodge and block player attacks.
+ Made so that the player can be cut into gibs too

+ Working on a new enemy type
+ A couple of visual tweaks
- Gave up on trying to fix the wave generation system because every idea I had didn't work

+ Finally decide game name
+ Finished 60% of the scenes
+ Finished all npc dialogue

+ finished in-game dialogue system.
- put aside font creation for a time being

+ Added airstrafe and airhop
+ added a bunch of visual stuff, like hook projectile and airdash particles
+ finished up helmet material
+ added more control to the wallrun
+ added Enum check for player movemement
- Input Buffer stuff is still not ready for 4.17
- Material fuckery took way too long

+ Character Generator WIP
+ Tutorial WIP
+ New music tracks
- Second Programmer is AWOL
- Starting a second business so less time for Game Dev

+ Added level clear screen and game over screen
+ Wolves now perform a dash/tackle/jump attack when close to the player
- still a bit wonky, some times the attack stops short even if it shouldn't
+ added music with crossfading effect for stealth and chase
+ snek is helping with designing the level
- wolves kick the same rock forever
+ it's amusing to watch so I'll probably keep it
- been so long since the last recap, I don't know why I'm bothering
- still not sure if the game is actually fun to play

+ The C++ rewrite continues
+ Bullet Physics debug drawing implementation
+ Bullet Physics world model loaded
+ GLSL-style matrix operations
+ World once again rendering correctly
+ Pause menu reimplemented
+ Flying camera movement
+ Currently porting collision system

+ Added very primitive AI
- took way longer than it should have
+ improved the map generation a bit
+ fixed a bug where lines could be shot in the wrong direction
- another similar bug still appears every now and then and I can't understand why
+ codebro kry offered to add online multiplayer later on

+ Selection box
+ FSM
+ Pathfinding
+ Draggable and Selectable behavior
- Didn't get enough sleep for 4 days

+ New placeholder mecha, with an IK rig, which I'll be using for Demo Day to prevent myself from moping around from my lack of good looking mechas.
+ Animations for said placeholder
+ Animation state machine
+ More VFX : Visual cues for when the mecha can fly again after being knocked, bullets, shield, also accidentally made vapor
+ Changed Dash/Melee attacks to properly move with the physics instead of interpolating positions
+ Blocking is in, no animation for it yet
- No real gameplay changes
- One of the functions critical to the shield effect doesn't work if I put a branch before it

+ Worked on pathfinding a lot, have multiple algorithms
+ Tried getting Cython to work for eternity
- Going to need an eternity more

+ Settings, progress and map fog are now saved and loaded
+ Initial level positions are recorded now too based on the player's relative position to the camera, it already worked like that in the old version of the game but here's a short explanation for those who don't know: reaching a Goal keeps the player's relative position to the camera which allows them to start in slightly different positions in the level, if there's a Wall in their position then it permanently becomes a Ghost Wall (the dark gray block in the screenshot) which lets the player pass through it and potentially open up new paths
+ Fullscreen toggle

+ replaced melee attack animation 1
+ fiddled with magic attack animation
+ worked on char portraits
- procrastinated and uni assignments will slow progress over the next weeks

+ Levels can now be finished, and a new level is loaded
+ Level creation is now its own scene, so I can create different types of levels

+ Character sprites finally completed, moving onto adding new skills

+ Few tweaks to the cards (Frames, numbers, shorter descriptions, etc.).
+ Simplified the design of some mechanics and game logic before their implementation.
- Slow progress, mostly design.

+ Added Ground Pound and Super Ground Pound
+ Added two types of breakable crates
+ Added visual flair for the Spin Jump
+ Started work on the first level

+ Changed the helper mechanic to a character change mechanic
+ changed the rendering method to more pixel accurate

+ Movement and event interaction polished
+ Fixed combat bugs
+ Dialogue art
+ NPC art

+ Made stats and attack patterns for new monsters
+ Balance testing said monsters
+ Working on a new sidequest
+ Completed tileset for next major town

+ Numerous tweaks to enemy guard-swapping behavior
+ Many small bugfixes, most involving animations and hitreg
+ Redid enemy rising special attack. Tweaked parameters that cause it to occur, and made the enemy vulnerable during part of its windup.
+ Began proper work on the second enemy fighter. Bare-bones work on their states have begun and the game doesn't crash when you go to their room I guess?
+ Began the most basic of basic work on sound effects.
+ Actually a pretty productive week and weekend, all things considered.

+ Stage 3 miniboss mostly done
+ More sound effects
+ Lots of miscellaneous issues fixed
+ Updated tutorial and game over tips for new mechanics
+ Added a new death animation
+ Going into full pre-demoday polish mode
- Going to be gone next monday, might miss recap :/

+ Working on new attack animations for Elzie
+ Got an interesting idea for bonus stages
+ Started designing a new background
- Progress is slowing down a lot thanks to unrelated issues

+ Moved number system over to TextMeshes instead of decals, allowing more control over fonts, colors, and the cube's model
+ Got achievements and leaderboards set up on Steamwork's side
- Holy shit where did the week go.

+ Improved facial expressions
+ New electric attack
+ Worked on fleshing out the village
- It's hot and I don't feel like working

+ Moved some font/GUI stuff to a separate library
+ Working on rewriting the renderer with a different backend
- Started making another programming language

+ Fixed a bunch of really frustrating bugs related to the mini-game, pathfinding and inventory UI
+ Implemented a new version of the main character (from a new artist)
- motivation is really low

+ Lots of new models
+ almost have mounts working

+ Implemented a state machine for enemies behaviors
+ Just need to start writing and give enemies their respective behaviors
+ redesigned, 2 enemy

+ character sprites WIP
+ boss attack mechanic OK
+ HUD mechanic OK
- Issue with the random generation of rooms
- Gotta remake room sprites

+ Adding pixelated shader covering up naughty parts. Somehow this makes the game look even more lewd.

+ Learned to ffmpeg and made a big long gameplay video
+ memdump/memory forensics was surprisingly easy to make