{"id":1053,"date":"2011-02-03T15:45:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T23:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2011-02-03T15:46:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T23:46:51","slug":"the-real-prince-of-persia-jordan-mechner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"The real Prince of Persia &#8211; Jordan Mechner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=1053\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1071\" title=\"Prince of Persia 1989\" src=\"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Prince_of_Persia_1989_cover-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Prince_of_Persia_1989_cover-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Prince_of_Persia_1989_cover.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a>If you enjoyed the original Price of Persia video game (circa 1989 &#8211; 1992), you may be interested in reading up on the making of it on Jordan Mechner&#8217;s blog\/website.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t know, Jordan Mechner is the creator of the franchise.\u00a0 He designed and programmed the first game by himself back in the 80&#8217;s when he worked for Br\u00f8derbund.<\/p>\n<p>The entire process is told through personal journal entries that he kept during the time.\u00a0 Spanning over 7 years, the journals describe what it was like to be a game designer\/programmer at the time and some of the inner workings of the business.<\/p>\n<p>I found the whole thing very interesting, but it may take several sessions to get through it all.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Jordan Mechner also wrote the original screenplay for the Prince of Persia movie from last summer and he has generously uploaded a PDF copy for those interested in reading it.\u00a0 Several other writers made changes to the script before it was put to film, so there are some major differences to what was seen in theaters.\u00a0 There are other goodies as well, like a copy of the Prince of Persia (2003) screenplay and tips for game designers, so go check it out.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Link to Jordan mechner's site\" href=\"http:\/\/jordanmechner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/jordanmechner.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>direct links&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Making of PoP - JM\" href=\"http:\/\/jordanmechner.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/the-making-of-prince-of-persia\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Making of Prince of Persia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"PoP Screenplay - JM\" href=\"http:\/\/jordanmechner.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/pop-orig-screenplay\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prince of Persia &#8211; Original Screenplay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ComputerAbuser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you enjoyed the original Price of Persia video game (circa 1989 &#8211; 1992), you may be interested in reading up on the making of it on Jordan Mechner&#8217;s blog\/website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[60,203,61,62,13],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-movies","tag-jordan-mechner","tag-movies","tag-prince-of-persia","tag-screenplay","tag-video-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11UM6-gZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}