June 2018 (Week 1)

+ Bosses spawn in along with some extra changes and script to manage it.
- Gotta do some tweaking on game balance.
- Gotta do more art stuff

+ fucking around with UE4's post processing stack
+ new VFX - missile fire and explosion
+ made some more procedural textures in Blender
+ Started working on subweapons - SMG, Missiles and Sniper/Railgun
- "Parrying" when two characters hit each other at the same time is actually broken
- Need to completely refactor the way damage is done
- (+?) practice on topology instead of meaningful progress
- Attempts at making a main character have been unsuccessful

+ wait and see at DD21

+ worked on the bubble and boomerang helmets
+ made candy props
- Level design is slow

+ Finished stage enemy layout
+ Slowly drawing out second mid boss
- Probably still 2 to 3 weeks out from finishing stage

+ Half done with the title/intros

+ optimized collision management
+ basic projectiles spawning

+ Redesign for some bosses and areas
+ Added acid projectiles and pools, added to boss and enemy movesets
+ Started working on new enemy
+ Experiments with enemies floating in water
+ Slowdown status
+ Balancing parries
+ Map button bind
+ Slight hud refactor
+ Item description wrapping

+ Fixed up arcade mode/character select
+ Added random character select
+ Reworked debug mode (still in-progress)
+ Character fixes and other stuff for demos

+ Stereo icons
+ Some interfaces for map location icon registration
+ Bug fixes
+ Planned mission / event editor and format
+ Evaluated schedule, cut boring features and added better ones

- Story line, sketching some scenes

+ Added docking exit points to stations
+ Added patrol paths for NPCs
+ Fixed some code where docking would send the player to a different autopilot setting
+ Implemented 9 new random mission types: general kills, assassinations, big kills, courier, explorative, deaddrop, resupply, smuggler trackdown, and piracy.
+ Added all tradeable commodities, 55 in all.
+ Added code so that faction ships can scan you for contraband (if law enforcement) or valuables (if pirates) and demand you turn over that cargo

+ Player slides around circles when colliding
+ Pause menu
+ Gamepad support
+ Key/button mapping

+ Mostly finished up modelling bird
+ Properly UV'd bird
+ Mostly rigged bird
+ Made some flight animations for bird
- Haven't done any dev this monday (usually my big work day of the week) because I've been watching E3 with my friends. Next week's progress will suffer for it.

+ building core ready
+ crafting core ready
+ battle core ready
- add farming
- plans for fishing and more comfy stuff maybe
- polish everything
- get a working prototype for incoming DD

+ Most base systems working
+ Nearly complete first game-loop/first 15-minutes
+ System corruption's in but isn't stable yet
+ Basic SNN menu support; still buggy
- Found some (unintended) bugs in the Fake Runner section of the game which prevent/halt progress. Need to figure out a way to fix them while retaining the other desired bugs.
- Corrupted memory can sometimes crash user to desktop unexpectedly, resulting in a bugged gamestate. Need to gracefully recover on hardware reboot.

+ Enemy AI improved
-+ Had to remake almost everything because i updated the physics behavior version
-+ Despite the time loss on this, things will be quicker to make on the new version

+ [more skerits]
+ Stage 5 and final sound effects done
+ Bugfix pass on those two too
+ more intro animation
+ a buncha paperwork for even more sekrits
+ Backend stuff for other platforms (not phones)

+ character designs
- animation test turned out poorly
- hitboxes and attacks untested

+ navmesh and pathfinding done, started working on bots
- 2 maps, system of achievements

+ BIOS and motherboard programs run
+ still way behind where the game was before, but things are cleaner now

+ Still working on filling the house with stuff TT^TT
- I'm too slow

+ Began working on a tooltip system to explain keywords
+ Added keywords to cards for this system
- I had to use the least efficient system because I couldn't figure out how to make other designs work

+ Finished city functions
+ Made tutorial
+ Working on the exploration aspect now

+ Designed final UI for inventory of units and buildings
+ Prepared foundation for interactible objects of different types (pickup items, resource patches, chests
+ Started working on inventory system

+ Added new Sniper Zooid and Grappler Zooid to be included only in full version
+ Made that ungrowing Zooids returns full value. Completely restructuring yourself is now consequence-free, which will encourage creativity
- Summer is negatively affecting dev-weekends

+ New TagLock (Reroll)
+ Worked on Hack minigame Art
+ Some interior Art
+ Some exterior Art
+ Touched Equipement Structure a bit
- Could have progressed more this week

+ some animation
- feels like shit knowing fallout76 go full online

+ tweaked rolling and merging slightly
- rolling is really hard to figure out when I merge shapes and I have no idea what to do

+ Added corpse explosion spell.
+ Added raise skeleton spell with a limit of summoned skeletons.
+ Team started working on logo, how does it look?
- Way to many other things to do right now.

+ Think I found a camera angle I'm happy with
+ Started working on the new quest for this map
- Had to ditch a remade town because I wasn't happy with it.