Jordan Mechner (born 4 June 1964) is an American game programmer, game designer, screenwriter and movie director. Mechner was born in New York City. He graduated from Yale University with a BA in Psychology in 1985. He is best known for creating the Prince of Persia franchise in 1989.
Mechner's first hit game was Karateka (1984), written while he was still an undergraduate at Yale University. Prince of Persia, released in 1989, was noted for its ...
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Jordan Mechner (born 4 June 1964) is an American game programmer, game designer, screenwriter and movie director. Mechner was born in New York City. He graduated from Yale University with a BA in Psychology in 1985. He is best known for creating the Prince of Persia franchise in 1989.
Mechner's first hit game was Karateka (1984), written while he was still an undergraduate at Yale University. Prince of Persia, released in 1989, was noted for its fluid animation of human figures. Both titles were published by Brøderbund. For the animations used in Prince of Persia, Mechner spent days studying videos and photographs of his brother David running and jumping and meticulously replicated the actions in the game. In his childhood, Jordan did not have a computer of his own, so he used his friend and colleague Kenneth Knox's computer to feed his interest in computers.
In 1993, he formed Smoking Car Productions, an entertainment software development group based in San Francisco, to create The...
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