Author: Lily Li

I came into 247G not knowing much about games and not having played many of them. To me, games were always more of a…

Depression Quest is a free interactive fiction game created by Zoë Quinn and Patrick Lindsey with music by Isaac Schankler in 2013. The game…

For the longest time I firmly believed that walnut in plants vs zombies is potato. ‘Wall-nut’ makes more sense now!

For this week’s critical play, I chose the classic gambling game poker via 247 Free Poker, a browser based version of Texas Hold’em with…

Undertale is an unconventional RPG game on Steam, also available on Nintendo Switch, PS4, and Xbox, developed by Toby Fox in 2015. The target…

A game I really enjoy playing is Minecraft. Minecraft is almost purely loop-driven. The core loop is observe the environment, decide what to gather…

Monument Valley 3 (Ustwo Games, directed by Jennifer Estaris, 2024) is a puzzle/exploration game first released on iOS and Android via Netflix Games and…

Here’s my sketch note on puzzle design in games 🙂

Emotions to Evoke: Ethical dilemma  Players have to choose between maximizing points for the algorithm, keeping characters doomscrolling, or breaking the rules to try…

Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery is an escape room style mobile app designed by Kiary Games Ltd. The game welcomes a wide range of…

Here is my sketch note for Ernest Adams’s writing The Role of Architecture in Videogames.

Have you ever been trapped in one of those dreams where everything feels loose and irrational, yet you felt a sense of liberty in…

Here’s my mindmap of Narrative Architecture by Henry Jenkins.