Guided diary provides user a reflective thinking structure to follow and stimulate their thinking. By following every step, they are encouraged to think more and deeper into their situations, which ultimately makes it an effective learning process.

The in-game characters, also known as the Greatest, represent the character strengths of the user. By interacting with the Greatest, user can discover each of their personal stories and understand their thinking process. It is a great source of inspiration for reflecting their personal strengths beside their daily routine.

The Greatest can assist the user by studying their diary and giving the most suitable advice. These advice can be academic studies, theories, personal stories or history events. These feedbacks not only provide new direction for future reflection, but also the guidance they needed for developing their strengths.

Refles is based on the scientifically proven studies of the Character Strengths and Virtues (CSV) framework. The CSV framework provides a scientific classification and measure for the positive strengths or traits in human beings. It identifies 24 measurable character strengths and organizes them into 6 classes of virtue. Every individual possesses all of the character strengths but in different degrees. For more information, please visit the VIA Institute on Character.

Three major issues are found for the common practice of self-reflection in our background research. Most of our target audience reflect on themselves, but no further action is taken since the process is not documented. Second, self-reflection without feedback lacks the perspective for an all-around thinking and learning experience. Third, The lack of indicators for measuring improvement makes self-reflection a frustrating learning process.

The goal of the first workshop is to understand users’ behaviour on practicing reflection and their motivation. Seven participants are invited to share daily routines and personal values through activies like journey mapping and card sorting. We discover that our participants wanted to better utilize their wasted time, especially while commuting. They also share that personal development is their most reviewed topic.

The second workshop aims to understand users’ quality of reflection and their opinion on feedback. We host a 3-day 36-hour self-reflection simulation via WhatsApp with four participants. They are invited to private groups with facilitators acting as their personal feedback provider. They are encouraged to share their thoughts anytime and rate the feedback. The chat records and their opinion from the post-simulation discussion are collected and organized as transcript for further analysis. Our participants are generally positive on our feedback and advice, and generally agreed that they reflect more deeply. We conclude that having emotional support is as important as having constructive advice.

We invite seven participants and learn about their learning process and engagement while playtesting the Refles prototype. Participants play though the introduction and tutorial sessions of Refles and later fill in the questionnaire on their understanding of our prototype. The result is mostly positive. The majority of our participants are willing to try using Refles in their daily routine and develop their habit of self-reflecting.

Besides five of the starting characters, there are more Greatest to be discovered on Refles. Refles recommends user to discover and train their strengths with an appropriate assistant. Recruit them all to explore the full spectrum of 24 character strengths.

There are also Evolution for the Greatest. Most of the Greatest has several significant moments across their lives, such as adolescence, adulthood and the peak moment of their career. As user progresses on Refles, they can unlock their different stages and receive more rewards.

Every building in Refles serves a different purpose for the user. Museum saves all of the user's progress and City Hall connects users with each other. There are also six virtue-specific buildings for categorizing and analyzing different types of reflection.

Essence acts as the in-game currency and the experience for levelling up the Greatest. It can be acquired by interacting with the Greatest, such as playing mini-games, unlocking new stories and receiving advice from them.

There are four levels available in this playthrough. Each level aims to provide a unique experience with an easy-to-learn mechanic and detailed tutorial. Players are able to learn more about some of the essential steps on beekeeping in a fun and engaging way.

All of the content in the game is gathered through interviews with beekeepers in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. Our team visited their homes and documented their daily routines. The result serves as an important reference and inspiration when designing game levels.

With the power of HTML5, the game can be easily accessed across most of the mobile platform, including iOS and Android. It also avoids the trouble of installation and compatibility issues. Visitors can enjoy our content on their devices, anytime and anywhere.

Since our team was constrained by the limited production duration, we were seeking a development tool which handles rapid prototyping and the production of the official release. After briefly researching different viable methods, we adopted Construct 2 as our development platform for its ease of use and various publishing options. As part of our tasks for pre-production, it's critical to ensure that its technical capability is able to suit our needs. A feasibility prototype was built for testing supported features and performance on mainstream mobile browsers. Understanding its technical constraints helps us in the ideation process.

Once we're confident that our project is technically viable, we shifted our focus on designing levels and mechanics. We started by picking the key activities from the list of beekeeping work, which introduces fundamental knowledge and fun facts that are unique to Hong Kong recreational beekeeping. For example, most of the beekeepers we visited shared their experience in building their own apiaries. Therefore the core concept of the first level carried on since the early development, except for some adjustments to the interaction. On the other hand, some drafts went through several major iterations. The goal of the second level is to introduce how beekeepers obtain their bees, and we had a few iterations prototyped for internal testing and review, but they were remarked as either dull or too idealistic. Thanks to these timely reviews and our rapid prototyping cycle, we were able to quickly generate new ideas and refine them, which successfully turned into an entertaining minigame.

While the prototyping was in progress, our graphic designers were constantly providing updated assets for the game. They maintained the quality of our visual identity across all of our deliverables, and they were actively revising in-game graphics in every iteration of the prototype. By working with them in close synergy, we were able to express our ideas and build what we had envisioned together.

It's common for locals to build and repair apiaries with resources around them. Apiaries are generally made out of fir while making out of pine would cause discomfort for the bees. It's crucial when starting beekeeping for the first time.

Although bees can be obtained through retailers, local hobbyists prefer to catch bees in the wild. There are many ways to capture a beehive but they all require beekeepers to have good eyesight to spot one. The success rate increases with more experience and practice.

Wasps are one of the biggest threat to bee colonies. If a single wasp is able to infiltrate an apiary, an entire colony could be wiped out. That's why beekeepers have a duty to actively search and eliminate any threat to the bees. Using a fly swatter is a bit primitive yet very effective.

Hard work pays off in this stage for our beekeepers. Honey can be extracted from the honeycomb formed within the frame by utilizing centrifugal force. Spinning it rapidly maximizes the yield, but beware that it may also harm the eggs inside the comb.

Ryu and Chun come from the Vipers gang in mainland. While Ryu is an aggressive and reckless thug, his partner Chun is the mastermind of the gang who smartly strategizes their plans. Tung is a university student who runs into debts and in need of cash. She is recruited by Ryu and Chun for the upcoming plans.

They need funding and they go to a underground gambling den for a quick burglary. Later when they are looking for their informant in a drug dealers’ warehouse, they are drawn into a gunfight between the gangs and the police. They track down a bank manager in a strip club and threaten him to help them with photos of him. Finally, they are prepared for the heist.

The core mechanic involves three major steps. Players explore the level and discover puzzles to solve and targets to locate. They face enemies along the way and need to fight them with different weapons and strategies. Once they meet all the objectives, they have to escape the level and progress to the next chapter.