A few years later, she started playing another Chinese MMORPG, Jade Dynasty (诛仙, 2007), based on the homonymous book series – Colin’s favourite. Its active and creative community engaged in planning in-game events, with the aim of recruiting players interested in using their characters to recreate scenes from the books in images and videos. This activity became so popular that the videogame publisher, Perfect World, incorporated a shortcut to hide the HUD, and organised official screenshot and video contests on the forum. Nonetheless, as there is no pause button in MMORPGs, capturing in-game images was particularly complex back then. However, when Colin moved to the US to study abroad, she stopped playing games for almost ten years.

In 2018, she restarted her IGP journey, spending a significant amount of time learning basic photography skills, such as composition and post-process editing in Lightroom and Photoshop, while also figuring out how to make the best use of the photo mode controls available in games. First on PS4 and later using a 3-year-old laptop, she tried to explore new approaches and techniques, and used mods and Free Cam to customise her shots. She started to use ReShade after acquiring a new computer in 2019 and has been improving further in the practice ever since, learning to use new tools and collaborating with fellow practitioners in the creation of mods.

For Colin, IGP allows her to work with two of the mediums she loves the most, historical and fantasy settings and travel, as she can record both without investing in a professional camera. She is interested in representing strong female protagonists in videogames,