March 2018 (Week 3)

+ Have more or less an idea of what the first level's going to be, started modelling some parts of it
+ Slight work on the grunt, it now has crappy hands
+ Changing the way bullets are pooled
+ Have a concept for the next enemy, started modelling it
- (?) spent a bunch of time practicing
- still no concept for the MC-Mecha
- not focused enough

+ Did some work towards making a demo.
- I have several scripts that more or less do the same thing or don't have any meaningful code in them.

- Nothing

+ Modeled big mouth monster
- Haven't worked on enemy AI yet so the monsters just wander and chase the player for a bit (they can be killed though)
+ Modeled some more props
+ Painted a bunch of textures for grounds and other environments
+ Implemented pressure pad, flippable lever
+ Implemented door opening and closing on condition
+ Implemented treasure chest
+ Started implementing companion AI states

+ Better collision interaction with repelling force
+ Hand grab onto moving plane, working on climbing mechanic
+ Drop broom and summon again
+ Contracting some art out

+ Shameless shinespark clone
+ Experimental sticking to walls
+ Fixed and cleaned up animation loading
+ Fixed rare harpoon problem
+ Impact state parries projectiles

+ Stage 5 boss mostly done
+ Hud finally redesigned, still tweaking the font
+ Promo grind marches on
- Hud related options are all busted

+ updated the character controller
+ updated animations
+ implemented wallstreet assets
+ started working on wallstreet level composition

+ Worked on UI for demo
+ Added spooky runs
+ Polished animations for my demo
+ Discovered bugs to do with puzzle cages

+ Possibly fixed physics glitching out together with some other soft body issues which caused difficulties growing nicely
+ Updated Alien breed graphics and started using new connection graphics for Zooids
+ Breeds are now locked behind progression system where for now you have to kill each breed's boss several times to unlock the breed
+ Fixed some issues caused by introducing directional movers
- Bosses are shit and we need to amp their game
- Meta progression is not ideal and the way we designed level progression and overall difficulty might be discouraging from having fun while experimenting

+ The C++ rewrite continues (All engine code now complete)
+ Fixed a crash during level restart (forgot to clear references to deleted Bullet3D objects)
+ First person head bobbing, inertia, and landing shake
+ Weapon switching, animation, pickups, ammo, sounds
+ Blender model exporter now supports flat-shading

+ Almost finished porting to Godot 3.x
+ Added a Training Room
+ Freeze Godot 2.1 demo, if somebody wan't to test it send me a dm at kemonogames twitter or facebook
+ Working on some surprises
- (?) Still fixing a bug with sound noise in 3.x
- (?) Reflection shader is broken

+ UI is completely reworked and looks much better and more readable than before
- Still didn't fucking finish scene transitions goddammit
--- Didn't do as much as I wanted and could

+ got movement animations for the player monster sorted out
+ figured out shaders so the light/cursor feels much more like a light source now
+ added some experimental shadows
- gave up on making the shadows pixel perfect because they look like ass then

+ Refactoring Invent
+ Refactoring Interactions
+ Water physics
- Refactoring is boring

+ Added all the state controllers that were still missing
+ This week was finally lit

+ Basic Rigging for some Mobs
+ XP Candy joins the first two food collectibles
+ Mob AI started, sorta
- It's already been a week
- Still need to texture a bunch of stuff I never got around too

+ documenting function of all existing scripts and putting them in one place
+ minor code changes
- distracted by games

+ Ported game over to GMS2
+ Feeling a bit better, no longer recovering from surgery.

+ Debugged VN-style dialogue system
+ Added functionality to text message system
- Text message system is still half broken
- Need to make sure my save files can track all of this text

+ Got 9-sliced animated windows working
+ Basic cutscene/dialogue system working
- Haven't figured out how to have more than one window open at once without using multiple objects yet
- Same thing with loading text from external files
- Really starting to slow down on how much work I'm getting done

+ Hacking Minigame: GFX
+ Hacking Minigame: some coding
+ Usable Phone proto
+ Recap guy not ded
- Could have progress better, but reasons

+ boss 2 stuff
- it's shit

+ Made turret movement playerside instead of severside and added a global delay on the server that roughly corresponds with your ping to make it "feel" more accurate and snappy
+ Added juice to firing and explosions, light effects on muzzleflash and projectiles
+ Projectiles now explode prettily on contact with shit, making the game look like a poor man's Girls Und Panzer Tron edition
+ 3D skyboxes that function essentially the same way hl2 skyboxes do but without the parallax movement
+ Performance improved across the board
+ Spaced armor and anything not marked as armored on the tanks can now be shot off, thus saving the vehicle from a single fully penetrating hit just like real spaced armor (vs HEAT usually but w/e it reduces the amount of penetration the projectiles have)
+ Updated to Unity 2017, improving performance
+ Replaced photon with fully custom system using player-run servers with a global server set up to match-make to all players and servers
- not sure about the environment coloring with the black and red
- nothing left to learn from the project so its being shelved again

+ Had some minor bugs in the load/save system that I fixed
+ More IK implimentation, but it is a very slow progress desu.
+ Demo got streamed
- Bugs during stream

+ Laid out first segment of stage 02
+ Already sketched out ideas for mid boss fight
- Still no music or proper SFX

+ Water shaders in progress for proto stage
+ Initial in game animation refinement in progress for Vlad
+ Final base systems are being completed prior to moving to proto (Collision and non linear curve special disc shots)
+ Refinement on some concepts for Dr. Gel, Kiera, and Pixel
+ Terra arena being further refined for first playable
- Last week was a little slow due to multiple events and a team meet

+ Limited double jump in closed spaces; maintenance area is now less annoying.
+ Made a bomb. Will use it in cases where you need to blow up something.
+ Made first backup in months. Holy shit.
+ Implemented explosion zones. You can now use the bomb.
+ Still replacing level placeholders.

+ water level hub
+ finished fire area
- not finished teleporter

+ Shop system is done
+ Finishing the artefact (equipment) system
+ Implementing the artefact bonuses for combat
+ Half of the story arcs done

+ Got a tech demo out
+ New demo update with bug fixes coming up
+ 2 Character basic equipment art done
+ Food & Hunger mechanic

+ Replaying Deus Ex for lore inspiration
+ GDC is happening and Unity put out their ECS beta
- how many more GDCs will go by before the game is ready to participate?

+ Completely finished the painting system (drawing, detecting when there's not enough ink, alerting when painting above unpaintable entities).

+ Battle between players system started
+ Mutation cards started
+ Map art finished
+ Cards Information ongoing

+ Picking up mechanic is in
- Have the flu, slow progress

+ Bug Fixes and updated unofficial soundtrack
+ Powerup balancing and spawning
+ Better enemy pathing (enemies can't stand on top of you)
+ Fixed grenade collisions.
+ Randomized cash rewards
+ Added spotlight

+ Revised skill tree
+ Stash and Shared stash
+ made 3rd episode of dev vid series

+ Implemented all UI sounds and all actions that do UI sounds
+ Created additional tech to allow sound variation on equipment
+ Fixed issue where asteroid generation grid would randomly stop working
+ Recreated original storm generation code, which are now 3D objects, added new storm effects
+ Added visible storming when a storm hits a system, ambient lightning bolts in systems and in the atmosphere of planets

+ Finished second tank model

+ Playing with terrain gen