September 2018 (Week 1)

+ Blocking out AA cannons
+ Blocking stat menus, enemy and character progression
+ [E] Weapon sfx

- at the Uni again
+ New function that will snap an actor from his position to another across a path
+ Hopefully this should allow for more interesting and accurate melee attacks
+ Started new attack animations for the grunt
+ Misc modelling
+ Early work on environment detailing

- Not too much done last week, working mostly on heavier systems
+ Basic station pass on all systems. Player can dock with any station and walk around and get offered services, with a total of 179 stations.
+ Server browser displays accurate ping and more accurate playercount
+ Slightly optimized some meshes
+ Added in remaining asteroid types: megascrap, alien scrap, and mega alien scrap.
+ Improved navmap by allowing navmap items to reflect the scale and rotation of their in-system counterparts
+ Added new models for navmap items: suns, gates and holes, battleships, and secrets
+ Created a login and character management system for multiplayer. Players can create server-specific accounts, which have a list of characters they can choose from. No more messing with this crap at startup
+ Also added the basics of character persistence in multiplayer.

+ title screen
+ intro screen
+ mission text screen
+ missions description
+ a lot of gui art
- advanced sounds,
- outro, missions description
- fix navmeshes
- fix achievements

+ Made more progress in the custom inspector side of things.
- I wish this was better documented.
- This is eating way too much of my time.

+ Fixed animation jitter
+ Added a soft follow/hard follow camera
+ Added journal menu
+ Added mission menu
+ Made sure all the menus kick each other off properly
+ Created some placeholders for the console
- Not feeling like I am getting as much done as I should

+ Bug-free DD release, as far as I can tell
+ Received first draft of idle animation from the artist
+ Fixed some obscure bugs with the day/night cycle
- Realized that my font doesn't scale properly at all resolutions
- Also realized I need to fix the logo, as some anons pointed out

+ added a new card
+ some balancing
+ brainstormed for sector 2 enemies
+ started some bigger internal changes, that suck to do, but seem more and more necessary
- another week of lots of non-gamedev stuff

+ Finished up and released "Everyday Life of a Samurai" which you should totally play if you haven't already
+ Also vanilla demo 4, no need to play that
- found some pretty nasty bugs before release, naturally
+ Selected/tested characters for "King of Cuddlers" and sketched out game
+ Menu music
+ Skipüing to the beginning of the fight
+ added intro/logo storyboards
+ Fixed helper crash

+ Players can now move syncronously in eachothers world and will resync if they somehow become desynchronized.
+ They can also synchronously attack with all weapons and swap weapons.
- Can't pick up weapons though.
+ Dungeon gen is also synced, but enemies immediately desync once the game starts for some reason.
+ DID A DEMO DAY FINALLY

- didn't demoday
+ cd command can change dirs, working on autocomplete
+ moved printing from being cpu workload based to a simple timer
- realized active cpu workloads won't work with the save system
+ found out mouse software is whats causing missed clicks and its not the game being laggy

+ new level graphics
+ updated item code

+ progress
- not progress

+ Fixed up targeting so I can make proper indicators. Now I just need to make it look good
+ Added a dozen new cards

+ More for the TGS demo
+ Added some cheat codes
+ Retooled some of hard mode
+ Japanse, French and Spanish finalized, German implemented
+ Added a few old feature requests
+ more music

+ Added 4th type: Circle
+ Added 4 circle melds with various types
+ Added 5th type: Block
+ Added 5 blocks melds with various types
+ Added particle clusters that you can pick up to boost score, making leveling easier
+ Boosted player fire rate and missile speed at all levels. Increased final radius of player level-up novas.
+ Implemented custom malloc/realloc/free wrappers that keep track of memory allocated, when it was allocated, and for what purpose.
- Implementing 6th type: Zoid (*trapezoids)
- Writing melds between zoids and other types
- Increasing player survivability and visibility

+ Put out a pretty bad demo, but a demo regardless
+ Replaced basic enemy design
+ Worked on combo and combo break system
- Still many bugs remaining that I've been meaning to fix for a while

+ 75% on new boss fight
+ Adjusted some special effects
+ Got rid of a bunch of trash
+ Actually used the recap
- j-o count is down

+ Furniture Spawning [X]
- Hacking Minigame [X][X][_]
- Furniture Loot Gen [_]
+ Looking forward this week to boost

+ Add new graphics for Grappler
+ Add new Bone area graphics
+ Working on adding more achivements
+ Publish special build for DD22 as separate game
+ When doing level spawns, do circle overlap checks instead of point. Fixes some objects getting spawned into walls
+ Feedback from DD22: Check for available space when spawning enemies. Underwater boss pushes away poison too