Caves
2D Visual novel game
2025
Caves is a visual novel game composed of AI-generated imagery and text drawn from the artist’s personal notes. The work unfolds across 23 chapters, each named after an acupuncture point from the meridian system of traditional Chinese medicine, forming a closed circuit from Benshen (Origin Spirit) to Zhiyin (Ultimate Yin) and back again. By translating acupuncture points according to their literal meanings, anatomical markers become symbolic sites. Navigating the game mirrors a journey through inner bodily chambers, framing the body as a spiritual landscape and the gameplay as a meditative passage that proposes the body itself as a divine terrain.
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