Hi All! The Reflection team is here again with another update.

The Beta for Reflection has been released and is ready to download! Please download Beta Release v4.rar and I apologize in advance for how large the game is right now, we'll try to reduce it a lot more in the final build. Currently what's left is,

• Objectives UI element (the code is done)
• Journal UI 
• Music Box script
• Music
• Polishing + Adding dialogue
  

Additionally, we have included a Feedback Report that is available to view here or download below!

Thank you so much to everyone who has play-tested our game so far, and I hope more will play-test Reflection as we march forth to our Final build :). The contents of the report are as follows,

Introduction & Motivation

Our game Reflection is a narrative, puzzle game on top of the actual reflection mechanic. This means that testing would give us feedback on not only the reflection mechanic but also the flow of the puzzle and story.

Here we talk about the details of when each puzzle was delivered, and the issues we were facing during the Alpha release on whether we could get everything done on time or reduce our scope accordingly.

Feedback Sources & Procedure

Here we talk about the sources we had for playtesting and feedback and how we went about the process of observing their playthroughs.

Results

Here we outline the observations/feedback we received from playtesters (and are still receiving). Since the puzzles we planned out were in continuous development, each playtester would see a more and more refined instance of our game, leading to finer and finer feedback. 

Analysis

Here we analyze the feedback given to us to really accentuate the parts that people enjoyed about our game, adding features and refinements to make that process more enjoyable, but also to change things that players weren't too happy about. We observed the throughlines of each playtester's feedback to see generally what all were looking for, whether verbally expressed or not.

Changes since the Alpha

Finally, we outlined most of the changes we made without getting too specific to show how we aimed to improve Reflection to make it the experience we want it to be and accurately give the players the experience we want them to have.

Thank you for following the development of Reflection <3

- Zuhab