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[stevesan]

Imagine if you could place down a mirror and step through it. And then, imagine if you could solve puzzles in order to get a carrot. Cuz you're a rabbit. Imagine that.

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[AlexHW]

sounded interesting, so i watched the vid, and yes it is interesting 

[Graham.]

That's actually pretty wild. There's a well of interesting level designs in that concept.

The title is pretty good too.

[Blodyavenger]

Interesting game idea and design. This must be pretty much addictive and fun, ey? 

[Franklins Ghost]

Looking like a good start Remember seeing another game using the same gameplay mechanic and think it's a great player control. Can't remember the other games name though.

Also like the name.

[stevesan]

Thanks for the kind words everyone! I'll be sending a private test-build to everyone who replies to this thread at some point.

Looking like a good start Remember seeing another game using the same gameplay mechanic and think it's a great player control. Can't remember the other games name though.

Also like the name.

Some games which use a similar (but still quite different) reflection mechanic are Reflexio: http://reflexiogame.com/  and Mirror Rays http://indiegames.com/2012/05/freeware_game_pick_mirror_rays.html - both really neat puzzlers!

Although maybe you saw the video I posted before with a totally different look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjNZHjktFnE

[Franklins Ghost]

That's it and yeah I actually thought it might have been one of your old videos that I saw (which it was).

Great mechanic and nice to see you're still improving it and working on it.

[stevesan]

Bump for playable build: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/48378162/reflect/index.html

[BWG]

Hi there. This is very nice. Such a simple idea and very well implemented. I have done a lot of work with dynamic meshes, but I'd never heard of monotone decomposition. Thanks!

[stevesan]

Some quick updates:
- Decided to snap mirror angle to 45 degrees. This prevents some random-ish solutions to the puzzles. This is reducing player freedom, but it's also simplifying things a lot. And it makes solutions less reliant on precision mirror-placement. I'm considering snapping the position of the mirror as well.
- Added a "ball key", which rolls around physically. No real good puzzles for this mechanic yet, but I think it's promising.
- Some more visual polish.

[stevesan]

Long time no update, but progress has been made! Tweaked the interface a bit, added new mechanics and levels (34 so far). Aiming for an IGF 2013 submission!

[Lynx]

Latest version doesn't seem to allow reflecting at an angle!  Clicking, then dragging (whether mouse is up or down) only results in scrolling the reflection left and right.

[stevesan]

Yeah it's not quite ready for hands-off playtesting - but the Q & E keys now rotate the mirror. The eventual goal is to teach the player the basic mechanic without allowing rotation for the first few puzzles, and then introducing rotation once they've got the gist of the mirror mechanic.

[bnhw]

Saw this on indiegames.com!

I think the art style is a lot more fitting than in the earlier video that you've posted, but I did feel it got a bit bland once it got harder and I had to think about the solution for any length of time.

The lock & key mechanic works nicely, but I didn't have time to play much beyond the point where multiple reflections are required.

Really like your idea of using a Google form on the page for feedback. How's that working out?

[stevesan]

I used google forms for feedback for my previous game, Beat Juice Radio, and we got a lot of feedback from that. Haven't gotten any for this yet. Couldn't hurt to add a form for your games though!