June 2018, Week 2

+ intros & level warp-in effects done
+ basic flight controls

+ Wrote Rock's story for next demo
- Not happy with it yet, gonna take a few more iterations
+ BGM stuff
+ The eternal bugfixing that never ever stops

+ Settings menu is now working
+ Controller Binding is now doable in-game
- Haven't finished wiring up art assets
- Sliders look awkward for certain settings but I'm not sure what else to do for em

+ made a placeholder Main Character
+ rigged, animated, implemented it
- I settled on something I don't like
- Need to re-do its animations because the current ones suck ass
+ camera now tilts along the X axis to make both characters visible if their position in height is different
+ made some SFX, which sound better in game than I expected
+ gameplay tweaks, melee attacks are tighter and harder to dodge

+ New enemy
+ Dialogue window
+ Rewriting flying controls
+ Changed water controls
+ Experimented with tweaks and new aiming controls
+ Some redesigns and plot stuff

+ Fixed a bug that caused an issue during boss rounds.
+ On-screen text that displays during checkpoints displays, with an added in fading effect.
- The text exists in world space, so moving too far left or right might make it unreadable.
- Slow progress.
- Need to do design and art work.

+ almost finish muscle chick animation

+ Finished the final puzzles, did some animation work, finally fully finished the world map, new title screen that's slightly better than before.
- MUSIC IS HAAAAAAAARD.

+ Attenuated the lighting and then unified the shadow colors by getting rid of ambient light
+ Animated bird flight and walk cycles
+ Planned out the bird AI a little more
+ Some minor bugfixes resulting from that 2018.1 upgrade
- Dev'd like half as much time as usual this week so I feel bad
- IK intimidates me but I'll need it for the bird's neck and feet (and also for the tribesmen) so I'm wondering how long I can put that off.
- It still takes me absolutely forever to animate stuff.

+ Added field clearings, breaks in an asteroid field or nebula where view distance can change, among other settings.
+ Completely redid asteroid-generation code, both to use billboards for more distant asteroids rather than the old system, and so that it no longer malfunctions when entering or leaving an asteroid field at a weird angle.
- Still need to start on asteroid models that aren't high-poly placeholders.
+ Separated cargo to have natural cargoboxes (found when you mine) or standard cargoboxes.
+ Redid mining mechanics so that mining nodes are easier to find, also fixed an issue where some weapons wouldn't break those nodes.
+ Added the ability for dynamically spawned entities to clear out any nearby asteroids. Could be used for a system for larger dynamic wrecks but probably not going to do that since it's not a planned launch feature.
+ Wrote some lore
- NPCs ramming themselves into planets and stations more often then I'd like.

+ Created new textures
+ Implemented rudimentary 3rd person camera
+ Created prototype level

+ Implemented Body Parts Equipement
- Ditched Dual Wield
+ Refined the "Space" System into "Clutter"
+ Made equipement work with the "Clutter"

+ worked on a move animation

+ Player turn while climbing
+ More control changes, falling air control and physics changes
+ Fix broom summon
+ Airplane summoning + assembly materials/animations components
+ Warp summon

- More story

+ Finished adding objects to the house(for now)
+ Made door interactable
+ All interactables now have a marker that appears to show that you can interact with it
+ Added very simple Time of Day system
- Currently working on more robust AI
- Make more things interactable and more interaction types

+ Added new (flying) enemy
+ More physics tweaks: now you can achieve a higher horizontal/vertical speed
+ Explosions push enemies away
+- Working on enemy AI
+- Working on the design of the first level
- Still using placeholders. I need to decide what art style i will use on all sprites and animations

+ simple bots, started working on the second map
- 2 maps, system of achievements

+ Remade the main menu
+ Restructured progression system, made it actually functional, added 14 cosmetic unlockables
+ added a couple more stats to be tracked
+ Replaced (almost) all instances of prebaked text images to make translation go smoother
+ Remade the stage 1 enemies and the stage 1 miniboss (the carrier) from scratch
+ did SFX pass on stage 5
+ More intro animation, what's done is timed and going in engine
+ More music
+ Release date locked in, meetings later today

+ Dialogue working with text animation
+ Font quality improved
+ I can now design stages in the "Tiled" map editor and the game loads them
+ Small bug fixes
- I will have to rework some of last week's code to fix a bug :(

+ drawing orc boss
- ridiculously unproductive week

+ Added some more methods to the inventory class (remove, remove with remainder, remove all, give, take, etc.)
+ Worked on terrain, colors and graphics settings
+ Made procedural trails destroy terrain details (grass objects)
+ Made new cursors
+ Made highlight draw an outline of an object to separate it from selection indicator

+ Menu UI update in progress. Main Menu is done, Head Selection and Options remain
+ Various fixes based on feedback in preparation for demo update
+ Return 50% of lost nutrition during boss battles

+ Finished tooltip system
+ Changed infrastructure so that the actions that cards are made of can be used by enemies as well

+ BAAAAAAACK TO DEEEEEEEV
+ New graphic tools
+ New full idle animation

+ Modders can make their own main menus for total conversions
+ Made some changes to the SQL->C# code generation with a "NeedsUpdate" column so not everything is regenerated each time (durr)
+ Watching infosec twitch streams to get an idea of the state of things

+ Player can now choose colors of UI elements
+ Going between zones works properly
+ Made random encounters less random
- This is the point where I have to start cutting features for DD

+ Layout is pretty much all done
+ Auto jump over ledges and out of water is working properly
- Made a building to represent all elements, but didn't like the design, so remaking it
- Wasted a lot of time today on something that ended up being an easy fix.