#reflectiongame

So, we held our industry pitches yesterday. Unfortunately, Reflection was cut from the final projects.

No worries though! We plan to continue the project in our free time, going right back to what the project was suppose to be; a suspenseful thriller that makes you scared to even open the next door. No more generic jumpscares. No overused “collect the paper” or “key hunt” gameplay. Nope, we’re going back to focusing on the 5 stages of loss and grief, with the reflection being the focus point of the story, using the environment to your advantage by keeping an eye out for the hints towards danger.

With a brand new art style, and a fresh start, we have the renewed enthusiasm to see Reflection come to life!

We’ve, “reflected”, on our mistakes, and now we’re ready to correct them. <3

We’ve been making progress...slowly. 

We spend a week on one set of mechanics, only to end up scrapping it all and changing the idea entirely. The game itself went from being one thing to something completely different, only to go back to being exactly as it originally was. On the plus side, we’re much more focused on this idea and things are falling into place alot easier.

We no longer are using your own reflection as the antagonist, instead, choosing to have an invisible foe hunt you at every turn.

The level itself is coming together, finally having something to show on the industry panel day that’s quickly approaching.

So our team has been put together for the prototype round of our assessment. We have a total of 4 artists, 2 programmers and a designer to top it off. With a team like this, i’m expecting great things from us all~!

We came up with our final mechanics and changed the story a little bit, and after an entire day coming up with the final details, we’re ready to get this first level prototype’d and ready for the industry panel coming up in a few weeks!

Everyone has their jobs set out for them, I’ll be handling rigging and animation, as well as doing abit of character work and documentation.

Some changes included; -Changing the protagonist to a female. -becoming much more puzzle oriented instead of horror as it was originally planned -And finally deciding on an art style and level design for each stage

Below is a couple of concepts quickly drawn up for the new protagonist, chances are she will change drastically though.