November 2017 (Week 5)

+ Got a file loader partly working.
- Still lots more to do in regards to saving and loading.
- Bug with the UI where background stuff is being interacted with even though I'm clicking foreground stuff.

+ Flanking behavior added
+ Detection accuracy improved
+ Big bugs fixed
+ AI improved and explanding
+ Interviewing artists(2 weeks left)

+ GameOff jam is finally over, squeezed some work for that but not enough for my taste. It gave me a few ideas that I'll test as well on my main project.
+ Started looking into NavMesh since the movement with an orthogonal view is a bit weird right now and its really not the focus of the overworld stuff. This should simplify everything for the player and the NPCs as well. I guess I'll focus on having something playable for demo-day.

+ Made awesome moving platforms
+ Gore particles
+ Moving door
+ Started using Hammer as level editor
- FPS controls still not good (why this so hard)

+ Implemented tiling terrain generator
+ Implemented splines affecting terrain mesh
+ Started work on AI classes for existing characters
- Terrain changes are super rough. Terrain vertex density might be too low, or I might need to make roads wider

+ Made a lot of new props like breakable windows, flowers, holographic advertisements
+ Added a city to the background
+ Started making a snake boss
+ Added a little boss introduction setpiece, planning to add more small events
- Still haven't decided on a title
- Still haven't started advertising game in any way
- No luck with the stage 1 music

+ Got working glow in the game. Now it automatically adds the glow effect for every object that has a glowmap.
+ Made so that color and glow intensity is adjustable through the editor
+ Made a stroke shader for the characters so i don't have to add it manually in their texture

+ Enemy wizard is now fully animated and has basic attacks
+ Spell effects have unique particles
+ Gravity effect implemented for beams and bubbles

+ Campfire/Rest system where you regain party HP/MP
+ New NPC
+ Balancing units/items/spells, spreadsheets everywhere (feels like I'm playing EVE Online again)
+ New map
+ Adding more variety with item drops
+ Fixing battle animations length so combat feels fast and snappy

+ Finished up SloMoDo as my November game / Game Off entry
+ Made Objectification for Ludum Dare
- Like two weeks behind schedule for the collection

+ New com device is drawn
+ Worked on how to implement com devices
+ Started working on a new scene
+ Talked/Designed lots of stuff about the game story.

+ Finalizing levels
+ RELEASE DATE SOON, STALKER
+ Juice, polish, bugfixing, etc...
- Ready to work on next game already

+ Writing collision going smoothly so far, but sadly it doesn't make for good webbums
++++ I MAY ACTUALLY GET SOME KIND OF ARTIST ONBOARD SOONISH LIKE FOR REAL REAL HALLELUJAH. ONLY TOOK ME ALMOST A GODDAMN YEAR.
-? I'm transferring to a work-at-home assignment at my current job. This means I'll have a couple hours of my day opened up from saved time I would normally spend commuting. Unfortunately, this means I'll remain busy for the next week or two setting up things for that.

+ Lasers can be reflected now
+ Object attached to tiles will detach on destruction
+ New prototype movement options
+ Changed knockback
+ Controls and movement tweaks
+ Spikes can be attached to other objects
+ Tweaks to boss fight

+ Released game on Steam!
+ Fix bug causing co-op levels to not progress if an AI is destroyed.
+ AI spawn placement in co-op levels handles collisions better.
+ Fixed bug caused by having a speed powerup while battle ending.
+ Add 2 seconds of delay before spawn in boss run.
+ Probably solved "local multiplayer only" bug using Parsec allowing friends to play over internet.

+ Latter half of level 4 blocked out
+ Starting on stage 4 boss
- Stage 4 boss is stupid complicated
+ Music progress kinda
+ Optimizations to all that fancy background rendering
- Not dead, just slower than post patch Tribes

+ Making character models
+ Setting up a basic story
- Need to start a blog
- Get better in all aspects of gamedev

+ Added configuration to make backward speed slower than forward speed (during target lock).
- Nothing else done. Had to work on my Asset Store plugin and I'm getting lethargic in this hot weather.

+ Implementing Procedural System to furnish houses
+ Friend built me a Dialog Tool
+ Some cool guy made me a Region plugin
- Been 3 weeks for miserable progression
- Almost done with audiowork backlog

+ Working map that hides areas until you've reached them
- Wow it's fucking nothing

+ Improved random gen town layout
+ Fixed lots of towngen bugs (ie fences in wrong spots, buildings overlapping roads, empty blocks, etc)
+ Fetish blacklist menu
+ Ability to play as characters from other gene pools
+ Finished the main rape scene (vag/anal, doggy/missionary)
+ Fixed crash on exit finally!
+ Fixed many issues with dunegon editing GUI

+ Bought some asset store stuff (pic related). People talk about hurr durr asset flip, but for $10 of art you can really make your game look better, especially if you're programmer with no art skills.
+ Messed up the demo config so Steam rejected it (no exe) so its getting a proper demo/walkthrough, rather than the first 1% of the story campaign
- Some of the assets I bought didn't work or were already free on GitHub. But Unity still puts them on sale.
- Curbing sales hopes

+ working on new sprites
- not much else

+ Binary map saving file system done.
+ Wrote a map editor which can spawn all current game entities and save them.
+ Floors have been added, each 'square' being one entity instead of million sprites.

+ Added checkpoints
+ Added doors to go through
+ Game now applies a different shader to special items you've already collected.
+ Designed some challenges for the demo
+ Made some nicer looking debug tiles

+ More work on levels
+ Minor shader adjustments

+ made sprites for floating rock and gravity switch
+ actually made that shit function properly
+ made some new enemies
+ small edits to forest dungeon tileset

+ The C++ rewrite continues
+ Implementing Bone-skinned animations

+ Music
+ NPC dialogue
- Lost a few days trying to fix compiler toolchain bullshit
- New renderer is not gonna work when building for WebAssembly

+ Tile map editor
+ Added 2 levels
+ Fixed a bug where the gamestate would stack waves of all levels played
+ Added text to buttons.
+ Added title and background for the menu
+ Can no longer build on water
- Art is forevereal bad