Fiona – Critical Play: Puzzles May 8, 2026 Blue Prince is my favorite puzzle game of all time. Developed by solo designer Tonda Ros under the studio name Dogubomb in April 2025,…
Fiona – Checkpoint 1: Concept Doc Individual May 4, 2026 Mood Board Above ^^ Spotify Playlist: Narrative direction 1: Story Myopus is a species of lemming living in the Finnish forests. They eat moss…
Fiona – Critical Play: Mysteries & Escape Rooms May 1, 2026 There is a moment in every well-designed escape room when the player stops thinking about the puzzle and starts believing in the world. Stanford…
Fiona – Critical Play: Walking Simulators April 24, 2026 In The Sailor’s Dream, walking, or drifting, is a mechanic that challenges conventional game assumptions about pacing and reward. Designed by SIMOGO AB, this…
Fiona – Mindmap: Narrative Architecture April 21, 2026 Games I love in each of the types of use of story in games: Environmental storying telling: The Sailor’s Dream Evocative spaces: Doki Doki…
Fiona – Critical Play: Competitive Analysis April 17, 2026 Social deduction games thrive on suspicion, performance, and incomplete information. As someone drawn to these mechanics, my team’s prototype, tentatively titled The Murder Game,…
Fiona Han – What do Prototypes Prototype? April 10, 2026 Brief game description: a classic bluffing game, combined with the theatricality of a whodunnit murder mystery. Players are randomly selected to be the Killer, the…
Fiona Han-Critical Play: Bluffing, Judging and Getting Vulnerable… April 10, 2026 Playing Among Us highlighted unexpected aspects of my communication style and decision-making. The mechanics of the time-constrained communication systems where players can only talk…
Fiona Han – MDA & 8 Kinds of Fun April 6, 2026 One of my favorite games, Tunic, has the mechanics of having collectable items and weapons, using the in-game manual book, and a fictional undecipherable…
Introduction: Fiona April 2, 2026 Hi everyone, my name is Fiona (she/her). I am a junior studying Symsys. My favorite game of all time is Disco Elysium because of…