Flip Through - The Art of BioShock Infinite
- The Artbook Collector
- Aug 22
- 2 min read
August 22nd 2025
This week on The Artbook Collector YouTube channel is preview of The Art of BioShock Infinite from Dark Horse and Irrational Games.
The 2013 first-person shooter introduced a new setting in the BioShock universe, the floating city of Columbia. This book explores how the artists helped bring it to life, as well as the inhabitants, enemies, machines, weapons, and Vigors of the game. Included are lot of early and unused ideas, such as the different designs and animals considered when creating Songbird.
BioShock Infinite from 2013 is a first-person shooter from Irrational Games and directed by Ken Levine, the mind behind the original BioShock. that takes players out of the underwater world of Rapture and into the floating city of Columbia, a seemingly idyllic vision of American exceptionalism that hides deep corruption and fanaticism. Players step into the role of Booker DeWitt who is tasked with bringing back a girl from Columbia, the floating city that looks like a utopia, but hides a more sinister side. Elizabeth, the girl Booker is looking for, has reality altering powers, but also has a deadly guardian he must avoid, Songbird. The game was praised among fans for its action, world design, and story, before later winning awards for it's visuals, sound design and music.
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