October 2017 (Week 1)

+ fully implemented spear impale attack: enemies break free once their stamina is full, but the spear will break earlier if you attack the impaled enemy too much
+ added more particle effects to the spear impale attack

+ Reworked the missile homing, they now home back onto their target if they miss, instead of getting stuck in a circle
+ Multi-locking system for firing volleys of missile towards multiple enemies
+ Changed how hit stops work
+ Small input buffer
- was sick for part of the week, busy with school for the other, less progress than expected$
- "worked" on visuals again
- HDD really about to fail

+ Added AI
+ enemies will track you, lose you, try to kill you and return to their spawn point
+ enemies will get hit ministuns and will get stunned from big damage
+ added customizable hitboxes and refined the way combos and animations work

+ Ability for pots to hold liquids
+ Ability to flip pots 90 degrees
+ Ability to fill up pots at pools directly
+ Ability to dump pots contents out
+ Some more cleaning up on the grabbing/throwing code

+ Added controller support
+ Started to work on two maps, a forest and a town section
+ Gave the player the ability to crouch
- Using the sword with the controller doesn't feel good. The sword use really doesn't translate well to joystick.

+ new inventory graphics
+ rewrite status/inventory screens

+ Almost done with the reworking.
- Probably have to build a new system for storing information about each wave, but that's probably not too difficult.

+ More progress on the backgrounds
+ Running animation finished
+ Actually working healthbar
+ Redrew old sprites, pretty much everything is on the same resolution now
- Swamped in other work

+ Stage 3 patterns mostly done
+ Boss animation done
+ Boss pattern around half done
+ Fixed the laser doing either way to much damage or not enough depending on how the button was fanned
- Bits of the pattern were repetitive/not so they're gone
- overall slow week

+ Rendering in 3D!
+ Implemented a "lazy" pathfinding solution
+ Implemented more behaivours
+ Began working on team-manager AI, and win/loss
- Working too much, so no dev time
- Now I need to do 3D models and I suck at it
- Now I need to animated and I suck at it

+ More work on the portraits
+ Worked on a first boss sprite
+ Implemented a new enemy
+ Worked on the story a bit

+ Some UI changes and improvement.
+ Worked on the overwold.
+ Still redesigning the cards

+ remade the map and some of the UI
+ lots of new dialog and overall story planning
- slow week due to real-life duties etc
- still no better name

+ Implemented burst selection for Lore
+ Reintroduced moth dust bombing for Type B
+ Working on spirit art type selection
- Lots of animation and art to do before DD17
- Redesigning stages from scratch feels bad but is necessary

+ core puzzle and 5 difficulty levels
+ main, settings and credits screens
+ added animated background
+ added some music and UI sounds
- temporarily removed resolution change due to scaling fuckups

+ Fixed several bugs in introduction level.
+ Managed to upload game to Steam.
+ Filled in some more things on the Store page.
+ Fixed tickets to game conference and booth.
- Need to drop some features for release.

+ Released demo! Leave me some feedback please
+ New cover art
+ Added speed slider (to be released in next demo)
+ Changed some colors around (same as above)
- Nobody is downloading and giving me their thoughts

+ Buff/Debuff system implemented, pending testing
+ Each unit can have a default attack effect, and multiple spell effects
+ Added a new enemy
+ Added new default attack effect
+ Tweaking camera tilt/zoom when units attack and cast spells
+ Replaced all placeholder skill/status icons
+ Battle system debugging

+ Game now runs in 16:9 resolution instead of 4:3, making the game upscale correctly on most modern screens.
+ Tonfa hitbox scripting complete
+ Tonfa dazed states complete
+ Fighting ring made wider and fighting ring code simplified
+ Had a more productive week than expected in general

+ Rifle and knife added
+ Blood splash added
+ Cover to Cover AI behavior
+ Retreat option when encountered enemy
+ Character skills(+UI for it)
+ UI Improved(Button & some BGI)
+ Training WIP
- Artist is hard to find

+ Added throwing the anti storm storm ball with your paddle
+ About to drop the greatest meme trailer humanity ever dared to witness
- Gamedev progress screeched to a halt since last Thursday

+ More work on the special attacks
+ Some optimizations for ground collision testing
+ Workaround for a strange driver bug for a snes controller adapter in linux
- Need to come up with a better way to generate mappings for unsupported controllers
- The same adapter doesn't work at all in windows

+ Working on GFX via a Jam Game until nov 9
+ Working on eventing via a Jam Game until nov 9
- There's no skeleton theme for the recap

+ made a deployable Sentry Gun
+ reworked some of the enemy targeting so they can shoot the sentries
- getting smashed by work

+ planning better enemy ai
+ slowly make art assets
- slowly

+ Rewrote controls to be less horrible
+ Basic anti-cheat logic for leaderboards
- However I lost millisecond precision for the leaderbord because Steam server only returns UTC time
+ Minor bug fixes
- My game has no visible progress from now until release except for when I replace the UI
- No idea how I'm going to market this aside from the basics

+ Got the new renderer working
+ Replaced my custom GUI shit with an existing library
+ Made the renderer play nice with the new GUI toolkit
+ Rewrote the core runloop to use an explicit scene stack
+ Refactored some stuff into separate libraries
+ Refactored the map view into a reusable GUI widget
- Mouse clicks are being handled by the wrong widget and I don't know why

+ Reworking a lot of code to test new features
+ Working on new animations and misc. art stuff
- I think bonus stage background ended looking too busy
- Splitting time with side project

+ The C++ rewrite continues
+ Got started on the static mesh and weapon systems

+ Contact damage can destroy tiles
+ Tile regeneration
+ More improvements and stage for a boss
+ Jumping on higher platforms is tighter
+ Dash doesn't get in the way with connecting jumps

+ Changed the colour palette to the Dawnbringer 32 palette.
+ Gave the enemy some nice animations.
+ Started using Unity's new tiling system.
- It's unfinished and complicated to script for it.
- Scrapped the background.
- Still don't know how to make good backgrounds.

+ Went through all palettes for eyes/hair/body and made them better + implemented ones that weren't there before
+ general art improvements
+ dress clothes
+ Added in a kindergartner sized portrait
+ Added in a system for portrait-offsets to minimize amount of work needed for kidnergartner/middleschooler portraits

+ Started project
+ Player animation and movement
+ Tileset and map loading
+ Automatic tiling

+ Kinda finished Level 1-2, didn't test it extensively yet
+ Ported old Level 1-2 (now 1-3) since I liked it, I will probably put the other old levels in some kind of hard mode extra chapter and make new ones with a smoother difficulty curve since that was the main complaint, still trying to figure out what a good curve is
+ Added player step and swipe sounds
+ The experimental module system I made (pic related) is working out fine so far
+ Moved a few variables around to a singleton, wow

+ (mostly) completed sidequest I put on the backburner. Can't do the dance cutscene until music is made for it.
+ created some new enemy sprites
= Halfway finished with promo art
- not working hard enough