Classic Game Post Mortem: Prince of Persia

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Jordan Mechner looks back on making Prince of Persia in a GDC postmortem. He covers how the classic platformer was designed and built in the late 1980s.

HN people point to it as a favorite among game postmortems whenever Prince of Persia or Mechner's journals come up.

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@op00to2024 · in “Ask HN: Should we stop posting X links on HN?”
Oh, and you can't forget this: "Jordan Mechner offers a postmortem on the classic platforming game Prince of Persia." ▶ this video
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@tosh2021 · in “Making Prince of Persia (2011)”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
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@Cognitron2018 · in “The Making of Prince of Persia (2011) [pdf]”
I like these too. Here's Jordan Mechner on Prince of Persia: ▶ this video Also for Fallout fans (the first game): (EDIT: unrelated to Prince of Persia, I just like Fallout) link
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