Weekly Dev Log #3

Welcome to the third weekly dev log where we are going to try something new and report things in chronological order now.

Monday

Programming Department

• Fixed a bug in the enemy AI that made them not target any entity when using a single target move and sometimes made the game crash
• Added numbers to the party stats in the top left and polished the view of the bars

• Fixed targeting so now you can't target unconcious entities with a single target attack action
• Dead entities no longer have turns
• Added a shield icon when displaying the enemy entities guard

• Added a mechanic that restores guard at the beggining of an entity's turn
  • If the entity has no guard left it restores a great amount
  • If the entity has guard left it restores a small amount

Art Department

• Made shield icon for displaying guard on enemies during battle

Tuesday

Programming Department

• Created gameover screen
  • Created a MVC application for the gameover screen
  • Added keypress to go to the main menu in the gameover screen
• Added gameover trigger when player party is defeated
• Added item rewards for winning a battle
• Added victory screen with the items obtained when the enemy party is defeated during a battle
• Modified how items are saved in the party inventory so its easier to work with it in the future
• Migrated repository to private git server

Art Department

• Created png for ending screen

Music Department

• Finished sencond version of Battle Music (this time more battle-ly)
• Finished fast debug room song

Wednesday

Programming Department

• Finished basic tool to make world building easier (github link)
  • Added support for
    • Stories (more like events)
    • Characters
    • Items
    • Locations (Places and Regions)
    • Relations between stories and other object

Writting Department

• Wrote a small story about how the game starts
• Defined the birthday of a protagonist

Music Department

• Polished music track for battle theme
• Accidentally composed a small melody that sounds like a second battle theme, maybe  I'll use it as the theme song of a battle with a character in the future

Thursday

Programming Department

• Setted up first version of tool in private server
• Refactored Pause menu application because a part of the code structure didn't made sense
• Fixed bug that caused the game to crash when there are no items in the inventory while trying to access the pause menu
• Added no items view to pause menu when there aren't items in the inventory

• Added feature that let you exit the pause menu when pressing the "back button" in any option of the side menu in the pause menu
• Unhardcoded strings in menues so its easier to translate the game to another language in the future
• Created special debug room for encounters

• Made encounter entity in overworld to trigger custom encounters when interacted with
• Fixed bug that made the game crash when canceling an ability in battle and selecting another one

Music Department

• Completed first version of town song
• Worked on the forest song

Fryday

Programming Department

• Added pseudo json library  for configuration saving
• Fixed bug that caused a game crash when opening the party menu
• Added feature that makes configuration persist after close of game
  • Added configuration managers to make configuration changes instantaneo
• Added creatures to story manager tool
• Integrated second version of battle theme

Writting Department

• Added three character sheets to the story manager
• Added two places with backstory to story manager
• Added one empty story with just the title to story manager
• Added one creature to story manager

Art Department

• Increased width of battle backgrounds 2.5 times
• Created Mac Portrait for Story Manager
• Commited art resources to private repository