Boko Woods

Boko Forest is one of the earliest of Polyducks' experiments in textmode art - a technique which involves placing tiles of text and shapes into a grid. The term 'textmode' comes from early computers, where they had graphics modes and text modes, where graphics would render high resolution bitmaps and textmode was reserved for monospaced text characters with a foreground and background colour. This piece uses a four colour palette to evoke gameboy hardware, and the topics covered within relate to samurai elements of feudal Japan and its characteristic pagodas, all of these elements pointing towards a Japanese tradition of computer gaming and technology.