1. Jordan Mechner was born on June 4,1964 and is an American video game designer, author, screenwriter, filmmaker, and former video game programmer.
18 Facts About Jordan Mechner
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Jordan Mechner followed it with the platform game Prince of Persia five years later; it was widely ported and became a hit.
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Jordan Mechner is the recipient of many accolades, including the 2017 GDC Pioneer Award.
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Jordan Mechner's works are often included in all-time lists of the game industry's best and most influential titles.
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In 1993, Jordan Mechner founded Smoking Car Productions to design and direct the adventure game The Last Express.
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Jordan Mechner was born in New York City in 1964, into a family of European Jewish immigrants.
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Jordan Mechner's father is psychologist Francis Mechner, and his mother was a programmer.
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Jordan Mechner then spent two years at Yale writing his first published game, Karateka, which went to number one on the Billboard software chart.
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Jordan Mechner wrote both games in the 6502 assembly language for the Apple II, though that system was in decline through the late 1980s, and little new software was released by 1989.
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Jordan Mechner founded the independent developer Smoking Car Productions in 1993, where he led the production of the CD-ROM adventure game The Last Express.
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In 2001, Jordan Mechner worked with Ubisoft to reboot Prince of Persia.
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Jordan Mechner wrote the first drafts of the screenplay and has an executive producer credit.
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In 2003, Jordan Mechner wrote and directed the documentary film Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story.
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Jordan Mechner collaborated with a team on the 2008 Prince of Persia graphic novel.
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Jordan Mechner wrote the graphic novel Prince of Persia: Before the Sandstorm, to tie in with the release of the film in 2010.
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Jordan Mechner has published two volumes of his game development journals from the 1980s, one describing the making of Karateka and the other focusing on Prince of Persia.
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Jordan Mechner has written a screenplay for a film adaptation of Michael Turner's Fathom for Fox Studios.
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Jordan Mechner has collaborated with European illustrators on graphic novels, including Monte Cristo and Liberty.