February 2018 (Week 1)

+ Implemented mission system
+ Expanded upon mission system to allow multiple types of missions (kill target, fetch item(s), use object) and multiple quantities of different reward items
+ Made weapon rack so guns aren't lying around on the ground anymore
+ Made NPCs stop spinning when idle
+ Made camera system feel better
- Removed elevator shaft from dungeon room list. Need to fix collision rotation math for it.

+ Use OpenGL for drawing now
+ Fixed web version issues
+ Started experimenting with new characters
- Gotta spend most of my time working on university stuff right now, rib progress

+ Made a model for the player character
+ Designed some stuff for other models
- 3D modelling can be a pain

+ started working on animations
+ more AI stuff - blocking, preventing it from unleashing a bullet hell when it's out of view, kamikaze attack for drones
+ neat explosion effect I can expand on
+ minor gameplay tweak
+ found an even better and more sensible way to do melee attacks
- terrible at animations
- root motion gives nothing but issues given scaling skeletal meshes happens in UE4
- need to rewrite the melee system again for the third time
- wasted a shitfuck of time
- really need to do again the whole topology of the grunt mecha
- said grunt's rig is fucked on several parts
- I won't even talk about texturing/uv maps

+ Designed & balanced stage 01 leading into mid boss
+ Began work on mid boss patterns
- Behind schedule by a couple of weeks.

+ setup Discord "rich presence" in-game
+ started on multiplayer
- Aiming for testing mid-march

+ Made a script to draw scenes in eight directions, when the player enters a new scene, the ones that were long are erased and the corresponding ones to load are drawn. This simulates the open world effect.
+ Now the game has 3 different cameras, one that is near, other that is far and last one is very far, made a smooth transition to the cameras as an anon suggested
+ Now the spear of stone is fully functional and can damage enemies and impale them, and can damage also the player if he isn't careful
+ Now the handgun is functional and does damage to enemies

+ Polished up existing animations and started working on 4 directional walk animation.
+ Entire game progression almost planned

+ Fixed a longstanding issue where equipped items had their stats reported incorrectly.
+ Created new UI elements for quests
+ Created and implemented a dialogue system
+ Hooked up the basics of quest systems and spawning quest-specific items, quests can be completed and undertaken

+ Created a new object/class/Entity-Component sort of system
- Havent touched my source in a while
- Gonna have to rewrite other parts of my engine to accomodate the new object system
- Nothing super graphical to show

+ Been working on the lights in the game, before they rendered in the wrong order. Now they render correct, but look a bit messy.
- Need to come up with a studio/production name. Is just going by LK sufficient?
- Slowest week I've had in a long time, I'm disappointed.

+ Wave design finished, only balancing left
+ Added flying turtles and giant lasers
+ Sorted out the hard drive issues
- Scrapped the old midboss, making it a mech now

+ Working on new part of the level. It will be a maglev train station, and it is roughly 1.5-2x bigger than the old part of the level. Still in prototyping stage.

+ new backgrounds in works
+ working on Arcade Mode intro
- still need more music and non-placeholder sfx
- still need a new title/logo

+ Shaders
+ SheepieBoi
- Shaders
- Unity Terrain Editor is shit

+ A new enemy and new hazard
+ Area signs in the top left corner of the screen when you enter a new zone
- uni work

+ Some more spellcard types
+ Some basic enemies
+ Deck/Hand formatting
+ Picking spellcards to use in battle

+ Basic AI follow waypoint and select maneuver, lerp heading and control throttle
+ Import and animate plane parts

+ More stage 5
+ Extended stage 4 a bit
+ Stage 4 music done
+ Stage 3 SFX done
+ Tweaked score balance a bit,bursting into large amounts of bullets dosn't scale quite as hard
- the spirit is willing the the body keeps getting sick

+ I'M BAAACKKKKK!
+ New collision system almost completely implemented!
+ All defensive player collision detection code has been rewritten and is functioning.
+ All offensive player collision detection code has been rewritten and is functioning aside from the player's rapid jab/hook supers.
+ Most offensive enemy collision detection still functioning as intended with only minor adjustment necessary to get it to function under the new system.
+ Friday is the 1 year anniversary of this coding project! I wasn't even expecting to make it two months when I started.
- RIP my recap 34 combo.
- I feel bad it took me this long to start getting back into the swing of things.

+ Continuing work on 3d model for the player's 2nd armor.

+ Working on test beds for animations and game mechanics
+ Reskinning the rebuilt Vlad Volt model and rig
+ Figured out a blending tree issue and clarified animation states regarding dashing
+ UI style mockup for win screen completed
+ Dr. Gel concept completed
- Still hunting for secondary coder to join team
- Multiple team members out last week

+ Binary procs: prolif, c_fire, c_cold, c_bolt, c_dark, c_holy, c_phys
- FF12 came out on PC

+ you can move characters around now
+ characters get physically lifted up when you move them around
- missed last week because I am stupid
- too much procrastination

+ basic boat movement implemented
+ water generator implemented
+ done a lot of thinking about game and what it should be
- lack of free time

+ Moved from 3rd person to 1st person camera
+ added orbs
+ made orbs work
+ made orbs pretty
- orb animation is weird so it's removed for now
- Mountain Challenge on hold until this game is ""done""

+ first recap
+ on it for months (not full time), lots of notes
- not much to actually show
+ went back to the technical basics, realized I has no choice but to make a map editor, working on that
+ reading Tiled maps, will use them for base ground
+ painting "obstacle" & "free" tiles
+ pan & zoom
+ started planning out all map objects IDs to save maps in a custom format
- to do : saving & loading maps
- having second thoughts about how much of a clone it is
- I like thinking of characters, but story is hard

+ enemy health indicators
+ pickup system
+ a few weapons
+ equipment & ammunition HUD
+ roughed out AI behaviour for ranged attacks
+ implemented grid based LoS check for non-orthogonal abilities
- huge blindzones will eventually need to be remedied
- tempos approaching 160 bpm tend to get you killed comically fast due to the above

+ New Loading Screen proto (+perf)
+ I may have found a guy for a plugin
- Slows my workflow while I wait for it

+ art for new in-game area done;
+ some more writing done;
- that's all. barely any time for devving these past weeks;

+ clouds, projectiles with strafing, shadow shader
- shitposters ripping on my sprites

+ small art progress
- procrastinating

+ Action menu for moving, attacking, abilities, waiting, etc
+ Moved to a top down perspective to make my life easier
- Spent a bunch of time solving isometric problems that wont be used now

+ Added 8 more level (up to 10)
+ Fixed a ton of bugs
+ Added version control
+ Artist finished working on tileset
+ Added first boss
+ Added fullscreen support

+ Learning about mod-friendly architecture and tearing everything apart
- Game is currently broken into a thousand pieces on the floor

+ Fixed a bunch of bugs in the released demo
+ Save system improvements
+ Planning the rest of the game
+ Good suggestions and feedback from demo

+ Finished the Telescope
+ Got a few puzzle ideas for later levels
- Very little progress this week unfortunately

+ More area and character designing
- Testing a different way to do procedural animations in skeletal animation framework