Jordan Mechner / is on Nostr

I do #videogames, #books, #screenwriting and #comics. I made #PrinceofPersia and #Karateka on #AppleII using rotoscoped #animation & released my #gamedev #journal. Nowadays I write & draw #graphicnovels #BD and #sketchbook #sketching. I'm from #USA, live in #France. Interests #art #drawing #illustration #film #cinema #games #gaming #retrogaming #tech #technology #history Info about my past and current projects on my website at https://jordanmechner.com.

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2024-10-03 13:44:24

Time is an ocean in a storm...
35 years ago today, Prince of Persia was released on Apple II.
A huge, heartfelt THANK YOU to all who've shared this incredible journey.❤️🙏🕹️
To see what the prince and I are up to these days, check out https://jordanmechner.com.
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2024-09-24 07:45:46

As much as I love a beautifully printed paper book, sometimes the convenience of a digital edition makes good sense (for various reasons, including the cost & complication of international shipping). 📕
The English digital edition of my graphic novel memoir REPLAY is on sale right now for $2.99 (!) If you've been awaiting the right moment, this is a great time to grab it digitally. (The hardcover is $30)
https://www.jordanmechner.com/en/books/replay/
Macmillan: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250374158/replay
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250873754
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2024-08-25 08:30:40

I never realized that the English word "dandelion" comes from "dents-de-lion" (lion's tooth)... even though I'm an American living in France. You'd think that would have clicked sooner.
I think I need this book. It looks lovely, and it's "for children age 3 to 100," so I'm right in the range!
https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/06/17/the-lost-words-macfarlane-morris/

2024-08-13 18:24:08

Prince of Persia development journal update from 35 years ago today (August 13, 1989): "Today I put in the mouse."🐭
The moment when the princess's friend unexpectedly shows up to help the prince is one of my favorite in the game. My friend Tomi suggested it...
(Thread 1/7)
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2024-08-12 19:16:27

This October marks the 35th anniversary of Prince of Persia's first release. I thought today's game developers might enjoy seeing what I wrote in my journal during those final months of development.
Let the countdown begin (7 weeks!) with this entry from August 5, 1989...
Thread 1/7
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2024-08-05 21:06:31

RIP Game Informer magazine.
Gene Park: "I would link you to much of their work, but in a ghoulish move, the Game Informer website has been taken down with all of its historical documentation, journalism, data, and beautiful artwork and photography... It's ghastly to see the corporation amputate it with no respect for the history it made and documented, particularly since so many journalists needed those links for their resumes."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/video-games/2024/08/02/game-informer-shut-down-gamestop/

2024-08-05 21:06:31

2024-06-18 18:33:06

How I made "Karateka" in 1984 on an Apple II in my college dorm room: https://youtu.be/DLU_4xz38Tw
Interviewed by New Yorker writer Burkhard Bilger (at a bookstore signing event for my graphic novel memoir "Replay", the source of the comics panels shown in the video).
More about Replay: https://www.jordanmechner.com/en/books/replay/
The Making of Prince of Persia and Karateka at https://www.jordanmechner.com
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2024-05-27 19:18:32

Hi, I'm Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia. I've written and drawn a nonfiction graphic novel, "Replay."
It's a memoir of my four decades making games, interwoven with three generations of my family's back story.
(And yes, it has the bit where I videotape my brother in our NY high school parking lot in 1985.)
Check it out (links, reviews, and excerpts) at https://jordanmechner.com/en/books/replay
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2024-03-19 16:34:52

Four years ago, I embarked on the greatest creative adventure of my life — writing and drawing all 320 pages of my graphic novel memoir, REPLAY. Today, it's in U.S. bookstores in a beautiful hardcover edition from
First Second Books!
📕You can find REPLAY at https://jordanmechner.com/en/books/replay/
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2024-03-04 19:36:55

My dad, Francis Mechner, composed the music for my games Prince of Persia and Karateka on an Apple II in the 1980s. Fifty years before that, as a child in Vienna, Austria, he had bigger problems to worry about.
Excerpt from my graphic novel REPLAY: Memoir of an Uprooted Family.
In U.S. bookstores March 19, 2024. Pre-order at https://www.jordanmechner.com/en/books/replay/
French edition available from Delcourt.
#graphicnovel #memoir #princeofpersia #ww2
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2024-03-03 14:50:05

My 40 years of Prince of Persia adventures started in 1985 with an Apple II, a videotape camera, and my brother David in pajama pants in our high school parking lot...
Excerpt from my graphic novel "REPLAY: Memoir of an Uprooted Family"
Available now at https://www.jordanmechner.com/en/books/replay/
In U.S. bookstores March 19, 2024 from First Second Books.
French edition from Éditions Delcourt.
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2024-02-27 17:06:21

Hi, to everyone who preordered a signed copy of REPLAY--quick update to let you know that this complex international operation is proceeding as planned! 🇫🇷🇺🇸📕
I've picked up postcards from the printer in Montpellier, to be packaged with the special copies of REPLAY I’ll sign next Wednesday at Macmillan warehouse in Virginia. Books will ship worldwide from the U.S. starting March 11-12. 🌎
Four days left to preorder the signed edition! (cutoff March 1) https://www.jordanmechner.com/en/books/replay/
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2023-03-13 17:31:09

This wonderful Karateka painting (1984) by Thomas Blackshear II is at the Strong Museum of Play ICHEG in Rochester, NY, along with my Prince of Persia and Last Express work materials and other 1980s-90s souvenirs.
My thanks to the Strong, to #[0] & to all who make it their mission to prevent memory from being erased.
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