<p>An essay series dissecting game design and visual aesthetics through the lens of art history. Challenging how games are seen in culture and asking what art really means in the digital age.</p>

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<p>Does Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus break through the threshold from game into art? Does it use its kawaii design paradigm to elevate its status or does this game simply copy what has come before it in a Japanese visual sensibility or is there something more meaningful going on?</p>

Does Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus break through the threshold from game into art? Does it use its kawaii design paradigm to elevate its status or does this game simply copy what has come before it in a Japanese visual sensibility or is there something more meaningful going on?

Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus

A video essay series that dissects game design and visual aesthetics through the lens of art history. Challenging how games are seen in culture and asking what art really means in the digital age.