July 2018 (Week 1)

+ finished the second map, some gui polishing, making bots less retarded, rewritten normals shaders
- last map, system of achievements

+ Added more sound effects.
+ Made a new special weapon, Quake.
+ Re-organised my tags which makes some of my code a bit cleaner.
+ Couple of other tweaks.
- Unity is becoming the bane of my existence because there's a lot of shit that should be there that isn't.

+ released demo for Demo Day 21 !
+ Useful feedback
+ adjustments to the main character mesh
+ added master controls to the IK targets to make animating easier
- Procrastinated
- Tons of work ahead for dd22
+ know approximately what to do

+ Improved graphics
+ Balance changes
+ Improved events

+ Rebalanced some enemies
+ Whipped up an exploration map
+ Improved controls
+ Published a demo
+ Fixed a bunch of bugs
- Added some extra bad code to make the game playable for demo day
- Only 60 days left until next demo day

+ Worked on Collection Screens
+ New Action Icons Miniatures
+ Some specifics for DD21 upload
- Expecting low feedback
- Will think again of way to spice up the game
+ Having fun watching anons discuss a rolling recap

+ floating damage text
+ blood splatters
+ critical hits and new powerups
+ new d20-based health and damage system
+ new sounds and UI updates

+ Tons of refactoring away dumb decisions
+ Fixed up tile targeting so it wasn't running pathfinding every time a tile was selected for no reason
+ Added new cards
- Almost at the point where I can't justify not working on models any longer
- Didn't have any content for demoday

+ First level/tutorial made for demo day
+ Had a new item idea; working on it
+- Working on the shooting mechanics
+- Using more placeholders; sounds, music, blood
- Made almost no progress last week

+ Released Dan-mexica Infinite, the greatest Dan interpreter known to Dankind
+ put a nice little hotfix over the AI
+ Fixed a couple bugs for the demo, the usual
+ Fixed Emscripten
- EMSCRIPTEEEEEEEN
- Rest of July will have poor progress

+ Separate particle container and limit on number of instances to optimize emitters
+ Attack variation for an enemy
+ Replaced perlin noise to reduce overhead
+ Slight flying changes
+ Balanced charged shot
+ Experimental harpoon changes
+ Experimental swimming controls
+ Minor fixes
- Wind and explosions don't affect particles for now

+ Start doing another character
- slow as fuck

+ more orc attacks
+ parameters
+ basic ui

- Missed the recap last week, including stuff here from then
- Whole month of fucking nothing. Work, jury duty, and gaming catchup killed most progress
+ The C++ rewrite continues (Nearly Done)
+ Decal System Ported
+ Improved decal rendering (They're now always the same size regardless of orientation)
+ Redid bullet decal sprites to blend in more using alpha
+ Decals now have a randomized rotation
+ Rebalanced the shotgun to give it wider spread, but more ammo and higher rate of fire
+ Air-Crouching is back. Un/Crouching in mid-air keeps you at eye-level for vaulting
+ Displays now flash for low health/ammo
+ Created a unified system for handling weapon fire modes (including sights & melee attacks)
+ Fixed a whole bunch of old bugs

+ Got maps working
+ Got stats working
+ Gamemaker studio's way easier than i thought it'd be.
- How me draw ds_lists me am no msrt
- Ghostman's done :(

+ Intro mostly done
+ Trailer edited, working on store page
+ Added more hardmode bosses
+ Another piece of music
+ Lots of paperwork
+ More meetings tomorrow
+ Now an official Nintendo dev
- Waiting on Sony approval

+ Two new minibosses with 3 variants each
+ Added game looping
+ Luck stat now influences item effect rate as well
- Should fix bugs more often

+ Scalable grid
+ Grid controls (both kb & mouse), cursor location is saved and snaps
+ runs at any resolution upscaled (before it was 400x200)
+ Can spawn stuff on tiles
+ new PH art

+ Refactored the LOS observation system and most of the bird flight AI
- Refactored flight AI broke animations for the time being
+ Added some icons for editor prefabs and some sandy sounding footsteps
+ implemented a landing array that makes a flightpath for landing/swooping, made it follow the bird after it's locked prey
+ Implemented prey choosing and death dive for the bird boys
+ finally implemented and refined the bird swooping, still need animations/damage

+ Companion AI will now have a small threshold in their following behavior
+ Combo attack for the knight now works decently
- Can't bring myself to work on the next big tasks because I know they will bring me a lot of troubles and headaches
- the game still looks the same as 2 months ago because what little dev time I had I spent on coding
- starting to feel like I should give up on being 1MA and accepting the help of a codebro

+ Released DEMODAY Demo
+ Got lots of art done from artist
+ Fixing bugs and problems found in Demo
- Discovered lots of bugs and performance problems in said demo

+ Pill bug companion behavior
- Still no reasonable flying implementation

+ Building supply and demand concept
+ Export & Import commands
+ AI state machine enchancements

+ Added new fighter variations models, one for each playable race.
+ Added all flavor text for misc. items
+ Added descriptions for every ship
+ Added an option for the UI to hide itself when elements aren't in use
+ Fixed an issue involving cameras
+ Redid docking autopilot code, letting players properly dock at any distance
+ Added SPACE TRAINS

+ Finished the BG art from last week
+ Made bookshelf and table art, but its not up to my standards yet. If I get time later I'll improve them.
- Ran into problems with importing objects from Tiled, I really wanted to get sprite sorting done today but it looks like that isn't gonna happen.

+ Some internal code improvements
+ Hand Card Hotkeys (was suggested to me by anon)
+ Improved and now modular rewards window
+ New Character Introduction Screen

+ Replaced old interaction system with new interaction system
+ Updated the style of the Itch.io page to be a bit jazzier.
+ Pushed a (fairly short) submission to DD21 for people to enjoy.
+/- Had to remove parts of the game in order to make the DD21 build temporarily. Will have to reconnect and reimplement portions of them.
- New interaction system has some bugs, including messing up the menu navigation script and not displaying 'it's locked' type messages when things are locked. (Nor playing the 'it's locked' sound)
- Some of the audio mixing is messed up? Still investigating.

+ Build things to gather resources for you
+ Build factories to make stuff for you
+ Build ships to do nothing yet
+ Watch numbers go up
- There's no gameplay yet

+ New interface graphics
+ New interface code

+ Added git repos
+ More water and clouds experiments
+ Adding sound effects to game
+ [E] Starting up with WWise

+ Added bones and animations
+ bullet integration
+ fixed some PBR texture loading bugs

+ WebGL Browser Version
+ v0.0.0.3 (changelog at itch.io/t/253569/changelog-up-to-v0003)
+ Demo Day done
- Still no editor warnings
- Still no levels, but I plan to crank out a ton on vacation this week

- multiple bugs in third party tool
+ figuring them out with trial and error
- didn't demoday again
+ made an internet friend
- bad sleep cycle from caffeine abuse
- general nodev