Today I:

Spent 3 hours modeling some new bad guys. I’ll try and get them into the engine and make a pretty screenshot of some of them.

It’s good, but I have yet to really be gripped by the world. I found Rapture to be a more interesting location than Columbia, I suppose. Or maybe its that learning WHY Rapture collapsed after the fact was just a more compelling story hook than actively participating in disrupting Columbia’s story. That very sentence suggests that, by the gods of good gameplay and writing, I should be feeling the opposite…Anyway, I’ll give it time. I’m only about 2-3 hours in (so no spoilers, folks!)

Other news: spent a bunch of time today modeling new models for Orbitmobs.

today’s clock: 7 hours

Week total: 50 hours 2 minutes.

Today was much better than yesterday. And it involved ice cream, chipotle mayonnaise (not together, that’d be gross) and the soundtrack to Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins.

I also built out the basics of an ‘orbiting’ class of enemies. They’re the first non-boss mobile turret, and will probably be first seen in stage 3 or so.

I also spent some time modeling new enemy types today. That was fun.

Today’s clock: 7 hours 24 minutes.

And some days you spend sixhours fighting with Navigation Meshes.

How on earth this ill-documented system came to be ‘preferred’, I’ll never know. Grrr.

In other news, I did the following:

• fixed spazzing out of mobpawn collision
• built custom scout class
• reworked some of the contingency pathfinding for the mobpawn
• adjusted unhide delay of projectiles

Today’s clock:

8 hrs 34 minutes of pain.

So, now that setting up that pre-purchase+dev build access stuff is out of the way, it’s back to the grindstone. Here’s what I did today:

• fixed some website bugs
• fixed hugbot flee, sort of
• made hugbot hurt sounds
• fixed mouser explosiion triggering glitch
• fixed some bugs in hugbot’s behavior
• fixed flashing PpPulse on settime dilation
• repro’d and (maybe?) fixed the PpPulse getting stuck bug
• built in delay for ‘stun’ PPPulse
• fixed PpPulse sticking on Weapons (I hope)

Today’s clock:

7 hours 6 minutes

SO, I got a pre-order page up for Tower of Guns now. It’s five bucks, which is only a fraction of what it will cost at launch. (dunno how much that’ll be yet…), but I want to get into the habit of more proper build-delivery. So, purchase now and you get access to the development builds, so you can go around and start racking up those hugbot kills!

Also, if you run into technical problems, leave a question on the new ToG forums, so I can answer it there and refer others to it.

Last night I also did the following:

-resolved a render-collection problem
-fixed a bug in the uberbullet mod
-gave the mine-class of bullets a ‘sphere’ of collision.

Yesterday’s clock: 8hrs, 39 mins

Yesterday I forgot to log! That’s ok, I only got about 3 hours of stuff done anyway, mostly involving dealing with a stupid weapon mod bug, getting some playtest stuff set up, and doing some markering stuff.

Today I:

• FINALLY SOLVED that stupid gun mod stacking bug. That was a tricky one.
• fix credits typo: moral != morale..too bad that didn’t make the tester’s build..
• make the shotgun mod double spread, not add .5 or some ludricous amoutn like that.
• Babelgun: increase AOE, reduce damage per hit, keg gun: increase dmg
• make keggun slightly bigger
• if you get a new gun, now the weapon mod will now transfer
• made new icons for gun mods
• made new gun mod: uber bullets
• made new gun mod: precision bullets
• made new gun mod: bouncey bullets
• made new gun mod: minelayer bullets
• made new gun mod: explodey bullets
• solved bug where changing weapons would break the weapon XP bar

Felt really good to actually make new STUFF again, rather than just polishing stuff.

Today’s clock: 6 hours and 58 minutes
Weekly hours: 47hr 54 min

• added ‘more options to come’ & adjusted options text
• update devblog and meter
• added SFX samples to credits, polished credits up
• replace “new game” in endgame screen with ‘mainmenu’
• added SFX to endgamescreen
• set guns to locked again
• scaled game to make it slightly easier to upgrade and unlock stuff (for demo purposes)
• some minor bugfixes on menu/Hud
• stress tested build

Today’s clock 6 hours 30 minutes