i’m not too much into fooball these days compared to when i was a lil kiddo, nor into maradona, but since i’m living in buenos aires at the time of writing it’s impossible not to notice the energy on the streets. Lots of demonstrations in the city’s center where i live.

on the game development front.. it was one of those days, something really stupid broke everything and we spent most of the day debugging, turns out it’s the way we handle the UI… i knew that one was gonna bite us in the ass, so we gonna revamp that along with the character menu once we are done with the boss. The good news is that we fixed all that and began the groundwork for said boss, and hopefully tomorrow we spend all day doing just that, so we can call this level complete (in the way i’ve been calling things complete. If you’ve been reading for quite a while then you know what i mean).

Alright that’s it for today, gonna get some milanesa and play maybe more yakuza or tetris effect.

a bit of a disappointing day as i spent way too much time fixated on one stupid thing but progress was made. i linked all cutscenes and sequences that lead up to the last underboss encounter, fixed a bunch of weird behaviors caused by misplaced nav meshes, polished one of the rooms, and new programmer improved the AI for the underboss, plus added a couple more timeline tracks and playables to make it easier for me to open doors and add items during cutscenes. There are some other bugs we fixed too, but there’s a weird one still there where the player character would go between different idle state animations before reaching the right one, might need to move around that blend tree.

with this done i think we can safely do the boss tomorrow, then polish everything else and add more enemies. Current goal is to have as much as we can by december 15… which is where our vacations start, and we won’t comeback till january 6.

pretty comfy day even if i began late because of housekeeping (didn’t do it on sunday cause i was kind of dying from a headache). Almost finished the third section, now i gotta do the second midboss encounter, then the actual chapter boss.

Future tasks for the short term:

new menu, this time for real with a bunch of fancy shit
character building stuff
more enemies
more skills, buffs, debuffs, altered states
title screen
loading screens
save system

feeling really great about this, game’s going super smooth barring the times we’ve had to put down fires, but overall ultra comfy. this is my favorite part of game development, actual content stuff! I’ll wait till i have more models before i cut a trailer/make a formal announcement, since i wanna showcase some of the bosses.

we solved everything from yesterday, including a new comfy method for animations during generic conversations that’s still just half way done but hey, at least it’s not fucking up the game massively to the point we have to revert back several commits anymore.

Because of said revert we had to do a bunch of things again, but i was able to do all of it pretty quickly and looking better than before the disaster. connected a bunch of cutscenes together and i can continue doing more tomorrow. Next we gotta fix a bunch of things for the battles (found a bug where players can’t move after they win if a cutscene played in the middle of an attack, among some other small details), and integrate the altered states huds, their particle effects and fix all all issues with weapon equipment and customization.

the lesson here is to never crunch. guys, if you are struggling to fix something and you won’t let go until you find out, you’re doing it wrong. I fixed half the issues this morning after a good night of sleep, same with new programmer. a fresh brain is a better investment of time vs the time you lose for doing bad code while tired and then fix later.

good stuff, bad stuff. ON THE GOOD STUFF i made a bunch of story cutscenes, and tomorrow i’ll make more. very productive day in this regard, and as i get more acustomed to the sequencing tools the faster the turnover.

On the BAD STUFF, battles broke again. we found the cause before i sat down to write this, but there are some issues with weapon equipment. stuff keeps breaking for absolutely no reasons and we really need to do some clean up to see what’s going on. Kind of unacceptable really.

Hopefully it all gets solved tomorrow.

lots of work done, mostly on the cutscene and prop-making fronts. Today is a special day because it marks the first time I made a cutscene for an actual story sequence and not a test or anything, so I guess you could say the shooting on set has just begun.

So yeah, mostly cutscene stuff, adjusted some pending puzzle sequences with new assets, built the other side of the second section (pretty fast since i only need it to look good from one angle), playtested newprogrammer’s changes to the skill customization screen, and last but not least i did an early set up in fmod for the footsteps corresponding to different materials, we’ll integrate those once we finish more urgent matters.

tomorrow i’ll probably do more sprites for project X and work on more cutscene stuff since there’s quite a bit of planning i need to do before i work on preliminary animations (preliminary because i make the basic motions to then commission polished ones from freelancers, depending on the case)

Great start of the week, just hope my health is up to speed in the coming days.

damn almost forget to do my daily log.

big day today as we did a bunch of bullshit, namely fix stuff regarding skills, juiced up the grenade launcher, did new assets, particle effects, props, animations, adjusted some concept art so i can send it over to the 3d team. doesn’t seem like much when i’m writing it all in a single paragraph but it was probably one of t he busiest days i’ve had in a while, there’s just so much to do and we are pretty much going at high speeds right now.

kinda scary that things are going this fast but it’s also very exciting.