December 2018, Week 1

game started, added lots of lmao, ayy

Heads will roll lol

ayyy new CRT shader, will tweek values later lmao

ayyy new CRT shader, tweaked values, looks fuckign disgusting, loving it

Added audio processing in real time and it's fucking lit senpai

https://streamable.com/fhurw
https://streamable.com/dz5az

tests - synced movement to audio - https://streamable.com/q869j

+ Basically finished mech model
+ Got mech into gameplay as WIP
+ Started sculpting a boss alium
+ Came up with some more combat and animation concepts
+ Only a few more weeks til I have 2 weeks holidays to work on game full time

+ Added some effects for when the player is killed, so it no longer looks like they're instantly spawning on top of themselves.
+ Minor HUD change to have it work better with the previous point.
- Not sure how to implement the new stuff I want to do.

Added a helmet guy

getting groundwork in.

+ added 1 new event + art
+ added 1 new crewman + art
+ added 1 new card + art
+ cards can now modify other cards (that was harder then it sounds)
+ crewman abilities now have names
+ a hand full of bug fixes
+ improvements to the background scenery system (should includes a tiny performance boost)
+ in preparation for a future plan (environmental effects), systems with nebulas now show on the map
- that does not look very good yet
+ refactored a bunch of stuff and am now the proud owner of yet another singleton

+ Redid inventory screen. It's not much closer to how I'd like it. Still needs work, and doesn't have too much functionality.
+ Lots of other stuff I've forgotten about since it's been so long since I've worked in this.

+ RIP to my follow count, thanks tumblr
+ Added in more models for ships
+ Added in cloaking
+ Synchronized faction and knowledge states in multiplayer and savegames
+ Added anti-missile countermeasures items
+ Added moofy smibblers, more commonly known as space jellyfish
+ Also added control spawners to generate schools of space fauna, smibblers included
+ Redid some aspects of the new comm UI to be juicier
+ Redid the encounter spawning system to use deck-based RNG instead of normal RNG
+ Added in singleplayer party members, and the summoning of such
+ Started work on optimizing asteroid fields
+ Fixed issues where the navmap wouldn't refresh properly

+ Been making my character controller for a long while now. It's finally migrated from the dev/debug project into the actual game, felt like a recap makes sense.
+ Can now create characters from .json files, super flexible for churning out lots of enemies or alternative PCs even.
+ Procedural animation made with IK for the limbs
+ Has Ragdoll support that can get cut into pieces (With each piece getting it's own rigidbody)
+ Cloth physics is also part of the new character system
+ Added a dropkick to the player controls
+ The gameplay feel much better compared to the old system. Really great feedback testing the mechanics.
+ Also remade my lights

+ Menu
+ Options
+ New Punch animation
+ Hit Freeze
+ Physics optimization

Finished some end tweaks on the Receev APP.
Started the Combat phase by having a base damage formula.
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+ Tweaked HLU Order menu
+ Some art
+ Fight basic damage formula

+ Tweaked Tank movement type as it would overshoot even more with movement tweaks. Now it's borderline usable. Interesting that some "spinning" builds can benefit from it.
+ Added an achievement for completing a level without killing anything.
+ Released an update 0.2.0 with changes mentioned up to this recap line.
+ Started adding support for different game modes - to support promised Aquarium and start experimenting with others

+ added hud.
+ added particle effects.
+ added other cool "juicy" effects.
+ solved some problems related to box2d.
- still getting box2d related problems.
- can't think of a better name.