Software:Leonardo da Vinci (video game)

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Short description: 1997 video game
Leonardo da Vinci
Release1997
Genre(s)Interactive CD-ROM

Leonardo da Vinci is a 1997 interactive CD-ROM game by Corbis, consisting of a "computerized viewing tool which permits the user to examine English translations of the Codex [Leicester] superimposed onto facsimiles of its pages".[1] The tool, known as Codescope, is licensed by Corbis.

Development

In 1994, Bill Gates acquired the Codex Leicester.[1] In 1997, Gates' privately held company Corbis released a CD-Rom version of the manuscript.[1] On October 25, 1996 it was announced the game would be ready for the holiday season (Microsoft Windows in November and Macintosh in December[2]), but this was ultimately postponed.[2] The game was one in a line of educational/entertainment CD-ROMs with subjects including Paul Cézanne, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Manhattan Project.[3] The game's promotion was kick-started by being featured in a Da Vinci exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.[4]

Content

The title contains the Codex Leceister, as well as a virtual gallery of Leonardo's major paintings, plus his drawings, manuscripts, and lost works.[5] Players can view the Codex in the original mirror-script Italian, a reversed “normal” view, a transcription of the original Italian, and a modern English translation.[6] Leonardo Da Vinci is a coffee-table-book type game.[7]

Critical reception

Lawyer Gary L. Wolfstone deemed the project "impressive" and "interpretive".[1] Computer Shopper praised the title's ease of use and slick production values.[8] The Economist felt the game "exemplif[ies] the strengths and weaknesses of multimedia at its current, immature state of development".[9] ATPM felt the game would hold the interest of both novice and scholar.[10] The New York Times deemed it one of the better art-history CD-ROMs, despite some oversights in features and interface.[11] Wired explained that the experience of playing the game was "as if Leonardo can suddenly speak".[12] De Volkskrant felt that the game supported Gates' thesis that computer technology could be a form of art.[13] The Wall Street Journal wrote that while Da Vinci is a popular subject for video games, this title "beats them all".[14]

Corbis did not earn a profit from the game.[7]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Gary Wolfstone reviews Leonardo da Vinci Digitized". http://www.wolfstonelaw.com/leonardo_essay.html. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Corbis Announces "Leonardo da Vinci" CD-ROM. - Free Online Library". https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Corbis+Announces+%22Leonardo+da+Vinci%22+CD-ROM.-a018795189. 
  3. ↑ Roush, Wade. "Setting A Standard In Multimedia Software". https://www.technologyreview.com/s/400162/setting-a-standard-in-multimedia-software/. 
  4. ↑ "The Curator - Edge.org". https://www.edge.org/conversation/doug_rowan-the-curator. 
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". http://www.sumscorp.com/img/file/1997_Review_Leonardo_da_Vinci_CD_ROM_Corbis.pdf. 
  6. ↑ "The Codescope, from Corbis's Leonardo da Vinci CD-ROM - Xconomy". https://www.xconomy.com/boston/2008/05/09/an-elegy-for-the-multimedia-software-stars/attachment/the-codescope-from-corbiss-leonardo-da-vinci-cd-rom/. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Tasteful. Unprofitable. Microsoft?". https://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/1997/1103/6010046a.html. 
  8. ↑ Corbis' Leonardo da Vinci: an old master in a new medium. (Corbis Corp) (Software Review)(Brief Article)(Evaluation). 1 March 1997. https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-19135486.html. Retrieved 20 April 2018. 
  9. ↑ Leonardo da Vinci. (CD-ROM book) (Software Review)(Brief Article). 19 April 1997. https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-19323334.html. Retrieved 20 April 2018. 
  10. ↑ "ATPM 4.06 - Review: Leonardo da Vinci CD-ROM". http://www.atpm.com/4.06/page13.shtml. 
  11. ↑ "Backwards or Forwards, the CD-Rom of Leonardo's Codex Comes Up a Winner". https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/mirapaul/1226mirapaul.html. 
  12. ↑ Rapaport, Richard. "In His Image". Wired. https://www.wired.com/1996/11/corbis/. 
  13. ↑ "Gladjes, maar Leonardo da Vinci past goed op een cd-rom". https://www.volkskrant.nl/archief/gladjes-maar-leonardo-da-vinci-past-goed-op-een-cd-rom~a509728/. 
  14. ↑ Mossberg, Walter S. (7 November 1996). "New CD-ROM Titles Get You Acquainted With FDR, da Vinci". Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB847323768795403500. 

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