5/13

The past two months have been difficult for me. I was depressed to the point where it was affecting my health. Coming out to everyone (insert gay joke) as a depressed person certainly threatens the confidence of the project's completion, but it's the truth, and it was never really a secret. If you follow the blog enough, it's very apparent that I've been Ahab'ing this game Moby Dick style. I'm switching gears to "Just Finish It" speed. Programmer Will is working on the game's battle mode. I was still working on the game in the past two months, just not as fast as I wanted to. My current strategy is to balance hard work with lots of fun and IRL social interaction.

Showing progress! These are the character files that the Captain can peruse. They were written in character, by Isabel.

11:30a0- Woke.
12:30p1- Ate. Internetted.
1:30p2- Ate some more. Internetted.
2:30p3- Internetted. Did some planning work.
Difficulty 2/10 Efficiency 5/10
3:30p4- More planning work. Ran an errand.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 4/10
4:30p5- Worked on magnum reload animation.
Difficulty 6/10 Efficiency 8/10
5:30p6- Worked on magnum reload animation.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 10/10
6:30p7-
Finished magnum reloads. http://www.hentaicook.com/blog/magnumshow.swf Sound for it is finished but absent from this demonstration. Worked on porting existing animations to other survivors.
Difficulty 6/10 Efficiency 9/10
7:30p8- Worked on porting existing animations to other survivors.
Difficulty 9/10 Efficiency 8/10
8:30p9- Worked on porting existing animations to other survivors. Worked on the Shot Launcher animation.
Difficulty 8/10 Efficiency 5/10
9:30p10- Ate.
10:30p11- Finished Shot Launcher shoot, Shot launcher Reload. Grabbed a sniper rifle shoot sound and edited it to make it sound slightly futuristic. Worked on Sniper shoot.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 10/10
11:30p12- Worked on sniper shoot and sniper reload. Detected ant reconnaissance scout. Initiated emergency clean-up operation around workstation. Came up with a good story ending idea for Stella.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 9/10
12:30a13- Wrote down some story notes. Worked on sniper reload.
Difficulty 6/10 Efficiency 7/10
3:30a13- Ended nap/break. Muuurghh..
4:30a14- Finalized basic firing and reloading animations. Worked a bit on story events.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 8/10
5:30a15- Wrote story events.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 9/10
6:30a16- Wrote some easy parts of Stella's story.... I can keep going.... Nope. Brain functions are beginning to cease. Gnight.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 10/10