Thursday, September 17, 2009

Lady Monet Gets Unskrambled


We used the artwork of old masters in the public domain since we didn't want to deal with copyrights for the first version of Skrambler. Normally copyright on the artwork exists for 70 years after the artist's death. Even then, museums and galleries can hold a copyright on the reproduction of these images. It was a lot of work trying to track down if a particular image is under copyright.

For future versions of Skrambler, we hope to work with museums and galleries to bring their collections into the game.

Un-skrambling infront of the real paintings is kind of fun. The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC is amazing, and free!

3 comments:

  1. That would be cool, especially if the museams have devices for kids who come to the museam to solve the puzzle of the paintings. There can be stories about the painting/painter that they can only learn after solving the puzzle. Kind of like that audio devices but much more fun.

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