December 2017 (Week 1)

+ Added dragonbones integration
+ Added component for enemy retailation
+ New move for boss, changed shooting
+ Practiced animation
+ Tested json exporting

+ Stage 4 boss around halfway done
+ Fixed some crash bugs that poped up while I wasn't looking
+ Fixed controllers getting really weird if you have more than one plugged in
+ Some performance optimizations around blend mode fuckery

+ Made Hackathon Simulator 2017 and won a chocolate santa which tasted surprisingly good
+ Added the rest of the games to the collection
- Still a week behind schedule

+ Fixed a bug that would cause Unity to go through an infinite loop when selecting a file to load.
- Still need to fix the issue of the background of layered UI elements being interactive when foreground elements are active. Any suggestions would be nice.

+ Designed a new look for the player's health and stamina bars to replace the free placeholder ones.
+ Added visual indication when player stamina is almost empty.

+ Added preamble scenes before beginning quests
+ Uploaded skill demo vid

+ Flanking behavior revised
+ Story simplified
+ New art style options narrowed
+ UI improvements
+ Minor bugs
+ Reviewing core gameplay(on how much control player gets)

+ Content creation this week, added 2 new character and finished a quest
+ Started working a new enemy, resembles a very aggressive snake right now

+ Worked on first combat mechanics
+ Worked in in basic AI
- The impalement mechanic still don`t work when flipping the character

+ Added a loading bar
+ Fixed some map loading issues
+ Started a bit of an art style overhaul

+ More level design
- Having a hard time balancing difficulty and fun
- Didn't get much done

+ Implemented roaming AI characters that use navmesh
+ AI characters have a chance while roaming to choose a random item in range, walk to it, and put it in their inventory
+ Started work on NPC dialogue stuff
- NPCs will try to hunt down items held by other NPCs. Posssible feature?

+ Fixed some bugs
+ Started working on release date trailer
- Waiting on art from the artist
- Probably going to do nothing this week because I'm graduating from college and want to finally take a break

+ Added wobbling effect for sprites
+ Swimming works fine
+ Camera kick when falling
+ Camera leaning working fine

+ Finished the layout of the first level
+ Done with the first phase of the snake boss
+ 1/3 done with the second half
+ Got a tumblr
- Still no luck with music, hate everything I make

+ almost finished hideout scene drawing
- motivation
- will to live

+ Slow but steady redesign of stage for demo
- Breaking everything revealing how fragile the initial code actually was

+ corrected sentry gun rotation to properly follow and shoot at targets
- realized too late that Slick2D doesn't have decent alpha/color blending support

+ Bugfixes galore. Dungeon editing GUI less broken now
+ Performance improvements. Now runs twice as fast roughly.
+ Depth-sorting issues
- Debugging sucks

+ Got in health, upgrading mechanic, timer, and pretty much the entire flying mechanics. Starting work on the ship dungeon.
- As usual, just a lack of time.

+ worked on sprites
- will be away from a computer next week

+ Added magical armament visual effect
+ Added unique missile/bubble variants
- Need to rework beam mechanics to play well with new shaders

+ Scenario scripting is getting smooth
- feeling like having to micromanage every step of the players progress with explanations
- don't censor the recap

- Literally Nothing
- Almost done with audiowork backlog

+ Reworking the game with better assets due to picking up an artist.

+ Unified 4 separate inventory systems into one modular manager
+ 20 or so item icons
+ New map
+ More dialogue sprites for the MCs
+ Divided inventory stuff into 4 categories: Artefacts, Weapons, Items and Quest
+ Writing NPC conversations and quests