She has written for, designed, or substantially participated in the creation of Perplex City, the BAFTA-nominated[1] Routes (a project of Channel 4), and The 2012 Experience, a marketing campaign for the film 2012.
Phillips came to the genre in 2001, when she co-moderated the Cloudmakers mailing list which served players of "The Beast", the ARG which revolved around the release of the movie A.I.
She was hired by Mind Candy as an "'ad hoc' polymath", doing "'a little bit of whatever it takes to keep the game rolling,' be it designing and writing puzzles, or live event coordination.".
Phillips has been a presenter at numerous industry gatherings, including Foo Camp 2010,[13] South by Southwest 2010,[14] and an MIT conference on "Storytelling 3.0".
In February, 2013, Phillips created a Kickstarter project to raise funds for a year-long fiction serial called The Daring Adventures of Captain Lucy Smokeheart.
[16] In February, 2016, Phillips published The Daring Mermaid Expedition, an interactive fiction set in the Lucy Smokeheart world, with Choice of Games.