While we often see the evolution of artists working in old media, ever-shifting technical terrain tends to obscure videogame makers' aesthetic trajectories. In Thatgamecompany's pathbreaking and gorgeous games for the Playstation 3, we get the rare chance to watch these artists at work against a fixed technological backdrop.
You start as a single petal from a flower, blowing in the wind. As this petal soars through the air, it can come into contact with other flowers, gathering more petals, to create something akin to a comet of petals. As petals are gathered from key flowers, life and color is restored to the world. Its through this process Flower explore the concepts of life, death, and rebirth.
Honors/Awards
- Won the 2010 "Casual Game of the Year" from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.1
- Selected for showing to be apart of an exhibit at the Smithsonian American History Museum titled "The Art of Video Games".2
