July 2018 (Week 2)

+ Map base warping
+ Tiled map of combat area
+ Bug fixes
+ [E] More WWise work

+ Optimized Furniture Opening Animation code
+ Enemies have different GFX depending on HP,
- but so far it's ugly...
+ Designed a DevTool process to add enemies faster
+ Dev Tool to test furnitures faster
- Using big brains to design combat
+ Fixed bug with unicode from end users
+ Phone has now 6 apps square
+ Got some good motivation from playtests

+ Fixed an issue I was having last week with some sound stuff not triggering.
+ Explosion particle effect added when an enemy is destroyed.
- Not sure what to work on next. Art stuff, or adding controller support.
- Need to do proper design work for the rest of the game.

+ published a few updates for the DD21 demo
+ polished start animation
+ added sunset

+ added screen shake effect for gun recoil, explosions, and player damage
+ added armor that's purchaseable from the shop
+ particles can now be animated using sprite sheets instead of static images
+ added damage vignette to indicate when the player is taking damage
+ various HUD refactoring and enhancements, as well as new sound for level-up

+ New story character: graphics, battle and cutscene(half of it)
+ New transition shader
+ Lot of battle code refactoring

+ Finished implementing procedural bird landing
+ Placeholder landing animation
+ Animated the bird swooping attack and elevation gain flapping
+ Implemented damage for swooping attack
- It feels kinda lame, I'll probably make it knock the player down for some effect later on
+ Fixed a bunch of bugs and cleaned up all my warnings
+ Refactored the FUCK outta the whole sight/detection stuff so that it can be used with any AI entity easily.
+ Did more cool but nothing-to-show AI programming
- Put some flight animation stuff on the backburner because it's weird to program.
- Took way too long refactoring some stuff.

+ Added scrapyards
+ Redid asteroid rendering code to be a heck of a lot faster
+ Fixed a bunch of little bugs
+ Added racial descriptions
+ Linked together all the options menu choices so that they actually, you know, work
+ Synchronized ships and loadouts, so players can swap ships and see what they look like
+ Redid navmap controls, can properly target and select objects inside fields
- So many fucking multiplayer issues, like when a player logs in sometimes the server randomly decides that they are the ONLY player allowed to exist and welds all the current players together into a horrifying mishmash, or when it randomly attaches a remora-like ship to another player that they can't see but slowly sucks away their energy

+ orc feature complete, even playable
+ public demo on itch

+ Stage 1 remake backgrounds done
+ Added Spanish, French, Finnish, German, Italian and Portuguese support
+ More sekrit stuff
+ Fixed up Japanese a bit
+ Improved some sound effects
+ Another new track
+ A bunch of /gd/ stuff for official business
+ Now a sony dev aswell
+ Codes goin out for beta testing/balance

+ Got most of the UI for the character builder actually on the screen
- Still struggling to find a decent architecture that prevents the builder from being a spaghettified nightmare.

+ Sprite sorting (walking in front of and behind objects)
+ Fixed that flickering you see in the webm
- Reworking gameobject structure, not sure exactly how I should do it. (Should invisible regions inherit from the same class as objects, should sortable and non-sortable objects be separate classes, etc)
- Feeling a little burned out

+ Picking up and dropping items works again!
+ Cooldowns on a per weapon basis implemented
+ Weapon structuring changed
+ Preliminary work on temp character select
- Multiplayer desynced worse than before
- Weapons that attack too fast get the attack sprite stuck
- Melee weapons don't seem to damage right now
- Slime damage is buggy

+ Made basic character sprites
+ Finished some basic animations
+ Storyline and shit is finished
+ Character movement feels mostly refined
- though character movement is still buggy in some places
- Still stuck in unity block hell

+ Made crew introduction screen usable (and useful) to everywhere it made sense in the game
+ Improved the crew introduction art stuff
+ Organized all the cards/events/enemies/crewmember into a useful spread sheet (and added some new ideas there)
+ New Kind of card (spend all energy to do X times something)
+ Added 3 New Cards
+ Added Art for 3 Cards
+ Improved Art for 2 Card
+ killed some Bugs
+ you can now reject crewman
+ Added a dynamic background
+ Added fullscreen transition effect in between sectors
+ Started to do some optimizations
+ Improved art some more art
+ added 1 new crewmember
+ improved keyboard shortcuts
+ made a linux build

+ started last map, the system of achievements
- advanced sounds

+ Drag and drop to create ship blueprints
+ Ships have all kinds of stats
+ Assign blueprints to shipyards for production

+ AI tasks foundation and building task chaining
+ Production building UI with ability to change task priorities
+ Debug labels for inventory and AI systems
- Have yet to fix some bugs when multiple units work on the same task

+ Fixed the most egregious bugs from demo 3
+ Started work on the options screen
+ Fixing state machine bugs, the usual
- Ridley flew away during the stream

+ Added clarity to some things
+ Fixed view button not working in town so you can see your stats now
+ Fixed buffs not resetting between fights
+ Added ability to adjust movement speed so you can swooce around the labyrinth and get fights every 5 seconds
- Experiencing post-DD burnout
- Prototyping two new projects

+ Rolling back to another camera system since apparently I'm the only one who managed to use the previous one
+ Physics tweaks, enemies will now bounce off walls if they're hitting it from a certain angle or slide along otherwise
+ Movement tweaking, characters have different stats related to movement (braking/acceleration speed...)
+ New computer, got a drawing tablet as well
- need to figure out why characters are not imparted any velocity if they're touching a wall/floor/character
- tweaking once again some designs

+ Converted the square grid to hex
+ Fixed every class that was broken by this
- Started a round of discussion/shitposting about hex grids

+ Started working on AI for the ally character
+ Both knight and witch can follow the player, go after enemies in range and regroup if the player is too far away or if no enemies are around
+ happy with how easily I got things working, albeit still wonky
- not much else done this week, haven't devved much

+ Added save system
+ Steam cloud sync works with saves
+ Lots of new character art.
- Took some time of for IRL.

+ Figured out the general direction for the flying mechanics
+ nut

+ A bunch of bugs fixed
+ Camera follows player
- Cant think of new features to implement

+ Starting working on the project again
+ Fixed the state of tiles not being saved
+ Created a few new components for more varied skill and tile effects
+ Reworked the tag system to be more dynamic and extendable
- I forgot how messy my code base is D:
- ...

+ Made some sound effects myself for my game; sound design is fun.
+ Working on the second level.
+ Made a new thruster item; still need to think about the name for it.
+ Working on the game characters design
+- Still working on the shooting mechanics.
- Got sick last week, so i made not so much progress as i wanted to

+ Finally back into dev
+ Switching from mouse to eye tracking + trackball
+ Getting into ScriptableObjects
+ Saving/loading is ~50% working again