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Jordan Mechner

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Jordan Mechner is an author, graphic novelist, video game designer, and screenwriter. He created Prince of Persia as a solo game developer in the 1980s, joined forces with Ubisoft to relaunch the series in 2003 with Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and adapted it as a 2010 live-action film for Disney. Jordan's books include his game development journals The Making of Karateka and The Making of Prince of Persia, the graphic novels Templar (a New York Times bestseller) and Monte-Cristo. His games include Karateka and The Last Express. In 2017, he received the Pioneer Award from the International Game Developers Association. @jmechner on Instagram, Facebook, Mastodon and Twitter. ...more

Average rating: 3.79 · 4,793 ratings · 767 reviews · 25 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Making of Prince of Persia

4.09 avg rating — 1,703 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions
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Templar

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Prince of Persia

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The Making of Karateka

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Replay: Memoir of an Uproot...

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Prince of Persia Before the...

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El Principe de Persia - Las...

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Le prisonnier Monte Cristo - Tome 02 La tempête
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Hey yourself! Here are some numbers:

Women are 50.8% of the population, and they make up a whopping 58.3% of the US civilian labor force.

Yet, in 2018, women occupied around 20% of the seats in the US House, and 23% of the seats in the US Senate. Jus See Gabrielle’s answer.
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Greatly enjoyed this epic, intelligent, ambitious adventure -- multiple lives, loves and timelines intersecting through different historical eras, with a sci-fi premise that's so simple yet somehow explains EVERYTHING, like the Matrix. Since I was a ...more
Le prisonnier by Jordan Mechner
"Je trouve l’adaptation contemporaine du Comte de Monte Christo absolument brillante ! Enfermer un homme innocent dans Guantanamo… gare à sa vengeance lorsqu’il va s’échapper !

J’ai vraiment hâte de découvrir les tomes suivants !"
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“I've chosen a life that's so different from everybody else's that it cuts me off from them. Practically everybody I know treats me like a guest celebrity. Of course it's my own fault. I feel so damn alone sometimes, I feel like I could just float away into the stratosphere and everybody would stand there looking up at me and not one would haul me back down to earth. No ropes.”
Jordan Mechner, The Making of Prince of Persia

“A story doesn’t move forward until a character wants something. So – a game doesn’t move forward until the player wants something.”
Jordan Mechner, The Making of Prince of Persia

“In five years you’ll be 30. That’s the time of life when you stop asking a lot of questions and start to accept certain things and not try to change them.”
Jordan Mechner, The Making of Prince of Persia

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