Prompt 1: Describe the game as if it were a physical object.
Yiyi Zhao's game "Illusion" has three distinct brushes with imperfect ways to recreate them in the real world.
Brush 1 is the most complex and hardest to describe of the brushes. It seems to be a collection of white lines that is connected to an axis that goes diagonally down from the top left corner to the bottom right corner. It creates quite interesting patters that look like a spirograph. There are two ideas I have for creating this experience in real life. The first is using a spirograph to give the overlapping line feeling with physically drawing. You could also imitate "Illusion" in real life with buying some Halloween webbing. When you stretch out the Halloween webbing, it looks similar to the overlapping lines of "Illusion".
Brush 2 is a collection is hollow outlined circles that creates a tunnel. These circles look like a builder's diagram where it is a draft of how a tunnel would look like in real life. Another way to think of it would be creating a slinky. The slinky grows bigger as you draw more. To recreate this experience in real life, I would use a slinky and expand it or shrink it.
Brush 3 feels like a stretchy pearl necklace. When you press down your mouse and move it, lines with little circles that are apart based off mouse speed are put onto the canvas. The faster that you use the brush, the more the brush "stretches" and the farther the "pearls" are apart. To recreate brush 3 in real life, you would have to grab an elastic string and put beads on to it. Then you would stretch and pull the string to make the beads seem farther apart. To recreate the experience of drawing more or "lengthening the string", you could have the elastic string with one end still attached to a spool that could become longer or shorter as needed. The other part of brush 3 is that when you are not pressing the mouse, little circles appear where your mouse is. This would be similar to dipping your finger into finger paint and touching the canvas. Anywhere you touch the canvas, a mark would be put.