August 2018 (Week 1)

+ Did some research into custom inspectors so I can improve my workflow.
- Took more days off than I intended because I got sick.

+ Started working on the Character Controller for the 2nd armor

+ hands
+ getting the hang of proper topology
- endlessly tweaking designs

+ Made construction progress and building tasks UI
+ Various tweaks to the construction process
+ Made LODs for all building parts
+ Added more building parts

+ putting togather the last map, the system of achievements
- advanced sounds, some GUI, missions

- missed the recap, combo broken ;_;
+ implemented basic scene data persistence
+ started working on dialogue system
- very tempted by game jams
+ feeling good about the current progress
- kind of wish I could move back to asset creation

+ Came back after 2 months of no progress
+ Refactored code so it's more readable and modular
+ Basic planting system
- I'm bad at being consistent and I can't use a job anymore as a bad excuse to not dev
- I'll ruin everything when LD happens.

+ Added worker ants which run away and alert the nest if they see the player

+ handful of optimisations across the board
+ improved beat indicator accuracy
+ started a proper priority queue system to minimise blocking when enemies move in lockstep

+ Bosses spawn conditions can now be checked in town
+ Working on row system and a new ranged class, main problem is making things look clear and understandable at a glance
- Replaying some games from the genre to get a better look on certain aspects

+ Added music
+ Added some collectibles
- Struggling to make good animations

+ Made a bike controller
+ Made a good start on the level editor
- Not kart related

+ Static Meshes once again make noises when destroyed
+ Debris is back: ejecting brass, discarded magazines, shattered glass
+ Radial Damage ported, you can kill yourself with rockets again
- Got terrified by a sudden and consistent huge drop in performance
+ Turns out my frame limiter was just causing busy-wait loops, it will now simply advance to the next frame if there isn't enough time to do a proper sleep(), back to buttery-smooth 144 FPS

+ Smashed out a new graphics system thanks to some extremely helpful feedback and suggestions - graphics are completely modular now!
- Now I'm back to doing boring stuff like my inventory, get choices working, and set up the battle system's state machine

+ Added all remaining fighters for players to fly
+ Sound passes on jumpgates, cargo collection, thrusters, wormhole tunnels, and blackholes
+ Added screenshake under certain conditions: taking heavy hull hits, large explosions, using thrusters
+ Fixed longstanding issues with the music and sound system, allowing them to properly override or change volumes
+ Game now saves options across session
+ Redid UI to be glowy and partially animated, still a WIP
+ Added support to UI for different resolutions
- Resolutions having a weird issue where setting it seems to scale off the previous resolution (IE setting it to 1920x1080 when you started it at 1600x900 sets it to 1600x900, setting it to 1600x900 sets it to 1280 x 720)
+ Added running news stories and UI to stations
+ Synchronized docking states across player sessions: players can now see each other docking with things like jumpgates and such
+ Synchronized headlights across player sessions: other players wanted to be able to shine lights on one another
+ Added improved formation mechanics: NPC ships have taken flying lessons and stay in formation much smoother, and players in formation will jump with each other if close enough
+ Space trains now honk at you

+ I loike space an i loike detectives so this is core banger innit
- Started another project

+ Added turn indicator
+ Added sector indicator (with random name generator in it)
+ Added 2 new enemies
+ Added 1 card art
+ Added 3 cards
+ Gave the first elite enemy some intelligence and new and better abilities
+ Some refactoring
+ killed a lot of bugs I made by refactoring
+ Internal changes from custom property drawers to Odin inspector attributes
+ more small polish here and there
+ Added a buff/debuff indicator animation thing

+ functional video & audio options
+ character data saving/loading
+ navigable title screen

+ Arcade mode congrats/game over/credits screens
+ Survival Mode
- Still no demo/exhibition mode
- I really wanted that exhibition mode
- I don't have a Gamescom demo, but maybe something will work out...?

+ Had a nice week's vacation, moved into new apartment
+ Felt like casually rewriting the whole FPS controller with a rigidbody from scratch, planned it out
+ Movement, jumping, sprinting are implemented
- Feel like an idiot wrestling with making basic movement feel good
+ Movement feels good
+ Player can sort of walk over small objects just fine
- This is taking longer than expected

+ TGS trailer edited
+ More sekrit stuff
+ More promo stuff
+ Lots of back-end stuff
+ Hard mode stage 1 mostly done

+ New battle animation
- Got lazy again.
- Spent most time drawing fanart instead of game art. Learned something here and there though so maybe it's a +

+ Programs can require/make calls to DLLs which can be injected with stuff
+ Boot splash, login screen
+ Programs can be IFileOpener and be called on to deal with OpenFile requests (OS opens files of type Executable for example)
- Mom asked me to move out by October

- on some weird coding hiatus,
+ but found the start of a solution,
+ and developing Art & Eventing via a "Broject"
+ Art: Flower, Grounds, D-Water, House
- I don't post fun progress enough

+ started this project
+ got basic fps mechanics, can shoot spells and punch
+ got the lowres look
+ simple enemies can be damaged and killed by both kinds of attacks
- swapping attack types during the animation causes the hand sprite to vibrate when it returns to idle

+ weapons are now restricted by level and are spawned in the shop randomly when the player levels up
+ added new enemy type: Starfright - enemy that rapidly charges you, but can be slowed by the flashlight, and then explodes like a flashbang, causing blindness and ear-ringing deafness for several seconds
+ added new enemy type: El Salvo - an enemy that charges the player and explodes when within close-range. The explosion is lethal to the player.

+ Done with all human companions, starting on no human one
- MHW coming this weekend

+ Experiments with warp effect shader, using a tunnel warp for now
+ Setup IK for pilot/gunner hands
+ Moved engine to 4.19 for plugin compatability reasons
+ [E] Projectile sfx

+ Player progression tweaks to make it stay longer in levels
+ Updated Zooid and breed descriptions
+ Add Advena breed boss which only grows weapons which face the player and ungrows ones that do not
+ New Advena environment looks and environment shader which lights up when player is nearby
+ Updated boss spawn effect and added sound to it

+ More animations
- Having a serious struggle setting up the animation system correctly. It's getting tons of weird timing and blending issues