April 2018 (Week 4)

+ lighting,5 characters, servers
- 2 characters to go, sounds, music, normal mapping.

+ Cooking mechanics are mostly done
+ Making rooms and stuff
+ Actual main mechanic soon
- I dont want to deal with textures and uv mapping

+ Fixed some bugs related to health, damage-taking and knockback
+ Set up a quick title screen and coded the functionality which will be used for pretty much all other UI menus (such as inventory and dialogue system)
+ Modeled some enemies
- Modeled some enemies instead of implementing AI for the partner character
- With only 3 days left, I still don't have win or lose conditions or a level to explore
+ I'll do my bestest!

+ Fixed the issue I was having last week, and can now spawn stuff based on weighted percentages. It's not super in-depth, but it works well enough for what I need.

+ The C++ rewrite continues
+ Got started on porting projectiles & decals
+ Determined to have demo ready for DDXX
- Will need to bring Windows platform layer up to date

+ Worked on the 3D alchemy part of the game
+ VERY close to getting the base functionality I want before I'll allow myself to start 2D gameplay development
- Working in Godot is always an 'adventure'

+ Added crystal types (energy, fire, basic)
+ Made a ton of new particle effects
+ Added slime enemy type
+ Added some random ass SFX and music i found on the internet
- Wish i had some soundguy so i didnt have to use free SFX (they all suck)
- Not enough gameplay for demo day, m-maybe next time

+ More sprites and tilesets
+ Menu/UI work
+ Some code stuff
- 4chan kinda sucks

+ Finished overhaul, started putting new functionality to work
+ Some new cards
- Bugs

+ fixed phone menu cursor
+ phone animation for hack
+ several debug tweaks to phone menu
- this stuff is boring

+ slowly converting mockup to a real game
+ pixel perfect scaling and fullscreen
+ loading and writing user settings(resolution+usable keys) from/to file
+ command menu works and loops back
- boring progress
- no mc art

+ Reworked the combat system
+ Added a preview panel to see the effects of skills before used
+ Fixed AI units moving onto tiles already occupied by other AI units
+ Cleaned up some of the controls
+ Units are now restricted to one move and one action per turn
- I broke the map editor so it probably wont be in the demo day build

+ Colliding bodies now report collisions to each other
+ Bodies can now have "material" and "element" properties that alter their states via interactions with other bodies
+ Foundational code for such state altering

+ Updated more enemies
+ Fixed some enemies events
+ Drafts for area design and assets
+ Started prototype map for one of the areas
+ Editor and culling works better with screen zooms

+ Began adding animations to background elements in stage
+ Finally at a point where I can feel alright with proceeding with stage layout again
+ Got great feedback on the rebuild from a limited demo release
- Feedback reports the rebuild is very hard for what is supposed to be Normal mode
- Backgrounds will kill me one day

+ I'm back
+ Added detail on armor's back
- This is my only progress right now so I have to pick up the slack

+ finished collision
+ fixed collision bugs
+ put the game inside a few windows for better control
+ interaction code
+ basic text

+ Fixed up characters for friday's demo
- Had to take out fortune teller and Cirno
+ Fixed a bug that cost an enormous amount of memory
- Still another bug that costs an enormous amount of memory, can't get it fixed 'till friday
+ Currently writing/implementing the story

+ It has been 6 months since the development of the game began
+ Rewrite some code and now it`s much more efficient
+ Fixed some game breaking bugs
+ Worked on the map of the new alpha 0.2 for the demo day 20
+ Fixed some minor bugs
+ Reworked on spider enemy ai
- Didn't have time to rework on the other enemy I had in the game, so in the new alpha only the spider will be there as an enemy

+ Arena button in main menu works
+ AI can spawn in groups
+ AI has route, follow, and attack missions
+ HUDs are now built out of small generic tools
+ Crusader has unique HUD
+ Experimented with blender-osm created maps
+ Added MiG-21
+ Fleshed out Arena map with multiple groups
+ Debug tools for routes/waypoints
- My AI is on fire and not expandable at all

+ Trade Show has basically ended
+ Will be tweaking trade show build for a demo eventually here
+ Now that the pressure to get a Trade Show build ready is past I can now focus on actually making the game
- Various software licenses will expire soon
- Have to learn my way around Blender in the meantime

+ Prepping for demo day, fixing annoyances and whatnot.
- Busy week, so progress is slow.

+ Demo quest line mostly complete
+ Music tracks: camp, loss

+ More final boss progress
+ Lots of video editing
+ More promo art
+ Later this week
- Real anxious about it

+ Done with the ninja fight, really tough guy but that's more fun I think
+ Created a forest section and some music
+ Looking into resizing the game screen
+ Started reworking the swords trail, currently doing lerping and laying out individual rectangles, going to look into drawing it with a trianglestrip instead.
+ Finished up a new demo, submitted it a to a type of competition, might win some cash for dev
+ Applied to show the game at a local expo in two weeks
- Anxious about that

+ Changes made to terrain during runtime now persist across level of detail updates

+ Made all monster in the first characters necessary for the game to work
+ Alterations in the mutation and card systems
+ Fixed the battle and evolution system
+ Started to implement the new mutation system
+ Will post on demoday
- Final boss not done yet
- the layout of the game is not yet giving the feeling of the game

+ Messing around with flowmaps for water shaders
+ New combat animations look nice in game
- Flowmap implementation is dodgy, no way to generate the map easily so far
- worked on a feature that's extra polish that might not even get in the game instead of something meaning
- Need to fix a bunch of stuff in the animations to make them better for gameplay
- please bomb my uni so I don't have to suffer exams

+ more environment texturing
+ created event objects for spawning enemies/collectibles etc when certain conditions are met
+ made some "flytrap" objects for feeding bugs to
- player animations are still hideous which limits how much I can show off

+ Started working on Bone area boss. It grows procedurally and BIG
+ Optimized some code that was related to BIG Siphos and removed some random allocations
+ Added forceful whirlpools which suck player up at the end of the level. We had to force player down somehow, this adds a little bit of lore of player destroying whole ecosystem so it physically collapses
+ Made all Structure Zooids lighter which will encourage players to grow larger and give more opportunities to optimally experiment
+ Tweaked AI pathfinding and wandering so they are not so immersion breaking
+ Added new UI, pic related. Tweaks will have to be made
- We are still seeing that some parts are less favored than others. Structures without skills are not interesting enough to be used and differences between Mover directions are too subtle.

+ implemented thorn code
+ edited tutorial level
- more to do before DD

+ Modeled Hurricane
+ Modeling do-17

- None

+ SQL -> TextTransform.exe -> C# code works well
+ The company that made the modding asset is adding dynamic C# compilation support, so maybe you'll be able to write programs for the game inside the game itself
+ Updates to Unity 2018.1
+ User generated content seems like its going to work easily, even for total conversions
- No content

+ Win state put in
+ Game has transition scenes for minigame introductions
+ Background music added in
+ Sound effects added in
+ Controllers tested
+ Put some janky(but cute) textures on things
- UI for transition scenes keeps anchoring back to old points after every save.