Aperaine

Added music, sound effects, and finished export

Functional leaderboard in main menu and game over screen+ bug fixes related to gameover detection
(If you're planning on making a leaderboard, don't use silentwolf, it's not secure at all)

High score system

• Installed a theme and imported icons
• Reorganized folders
• Found a new font
• Pause button and score label during gameplay
• Made balls react to another ball missing
• Created a gameover screen
• Bug fixes
• Branded the opening, loading screens, and updated theme to be more consistent

• Designed a logo
• Overhauled the main menu
• Separated the background into layers
• Removed the input mapping menu
• Removed some unneeded files

• Set up pause menu (and fixed related bugs)
• Updated the hoop to have a layered sprite (the ball goes inside of it now, rather than behind)
• Made the Game Over detection happen earlier
• Added a red effect to the ball for when it misses the hoop
• Simulated a 3D effect to make the ball look like it's being thrown from different places

Attempted to add input icons to the settings, but ended up cancelling that due to the weird bugs. Added on-screen controls for mobile devices

Updated project settings for higher resolutions, made a background for the gameplay

Fixed UI resolution bug

Attempted making a reactive net and having the hoop morph with it. Ended up cancelling that because the polygon vertices weren't editable.
Installed Maaack's game menus template

• Added new sprites for the hoop and backboard
• Shrunk the hoop and moved all the gameplay downwards for easier visibility
• Made the ball speed up as the game went on

Created the game manager to track the score and detect when the player has failed to catch a ball
Made the thrower throw balls in a loop until the player loses. The balls speed up in frequency as the game goes on

• Made thrower functional by call of the function (it teleports to a random spot and throws the ball to a random spot)
• Increase player max speed
• Moved the thrower to be out of the view of the player
• Added a sprite to the ball
• Made the ball sprite rotate randomly when spawned

• Created thrower
• Set target boundaries for the thrower rng (through testing)
• Revamped the ball release trigger
• Made each ball only able to score once

Optimized two lines of code into one

• Made the ball automatically stop tracking the projectile once the peak has been reached (very smooth transition)
• Set up detection for each score
• Created physics material for the ball

• Created ball collision
• Attempted to reset the gravity of the ball after the projectile script (still not resolved due to godot bugs)

• Imported projectileOnCurve2D plugin
• Created ball scene
• Created base script for ball
• Rewrote hoop code to work as a staticBody instead of a characterBody

• Set up repository
• Started project
• Set game properties
• Made folder tree
• Installed super wakatime
• Made the hoop + colliders
• Made movement for the hoop

• Adjusted the coin UI to be pixel-consistent
• Fixed a bug where the player would slide after dying

• Replaced the atlas image fonts with a ttf pixel font
• Separated the image in the coin UI into a separate node
• Created a preset for the font style with outline
• Updated the coin UI with the new font
• Experimented with some other settings (not saved)

• Created SFX audio bus
• Created coin scene
• Created coin UI (font to be updated later)
• Imported extra assets
• Connected coin to player script
• Connected coin UI to game manager

Coin sound effect sounds a bit like crystals, so might be updated later

• Added knockback to the killscript and the player
• Decreased invincibility timer
• Reorganized player variables
• Patched a bug where reduceHealth would remove an earlier heart due to the other one not spawning yet