Hey all~, here's another update on how Reflection is coming along.

Following the Alpha Prototype, we were heavily considering whether or not we should be pivoting our roadmap to better ensure our scope will stay within reason. Specifically, we had two dates in mind.

• March 7th, where we must have our mirror mechanic finalized and usable for the closet puzzles
• March 15th, where we have both the Mother2, and Father1 puzzles completed

Although I am writing this Devlog late, the final answer will be expressed tomorrow on whether or not our scope will be reduced.

GDDC Testing

On Monday, March 7th, we had UofT's Game Design/Development perform testing of our game for two hours. It made it clear what we should be looking out for in terms of the process of our game and we wrote notes about it. It also made things scary; if there are this many polishing issues with our first level, I wonder if the same can be said for the next ones.

But a lot of the changes were surface level and were fixed pretty quickly after that session, sometimes in between play testers which is better news.

Ubisoft Playtesting

On Friday, March 11th, we had Ubisoft Toronto come by and playtest our game too! Throughout that hectic week, the team managed to get the majority of the Mother2 puzzle and fixed a lot of the issues we were seeing during the GDDC Testing. From 10 minutes before our actual playtesting, we managed to get our builds working and a solid presentation of our game for the playtesters. 

This went very well and we were able to get so much helpful feedback that made us consider things not previously mentioned that real game devs could spot right away.

What's Next

As of writing this, the Team's hard at work on getting Father1 puzzle outlines playable, optimizing and getting the journal functionality done. Saturday, March 19th is the day our feedback adjusted build should be done and ready to go. How much progress we'll have for that is hard to predict but do expect at least another update.

Thank you for following the development of Reflection!

- Zuhab

(Video Playthrough to be Added)