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Here's a playable version hosted by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Prince_of_Persia_1990 Enjoy !
There is a post published on Jordan's blog covering this, might be easier to read (no Facebook login nag): https://www.jordanmechner.com/prince-of-persia-30th-annivers...
Here's a playable version hosted by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Prince_of_Persia_1990 Enjoy !
The book he references ( https://www.amazon.com/Making-Prince-Persia-Jordan-Mechner-e... ) is a collection of journal entries he wrote while making the game. It's been about ten year since I read it, so the details are fuzzy, but it's a very raw retelling of the process of making a game basically entirely alone and before the internet. I'd strongly recommend it to anyone who writes software.
> I'd strongly recommend it to anyone who writes software. In contrast, this opinion from another game developer is not positive: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/647929167?book_show_ac...
One thing I found hilarious was when Jordan comments how they got a young actress to motion capture the Princess. They were the prototypical geeks of the time, and he says they were shy and very embarrassed around her. We've come a long way... :P
Also fun that Jordan got his brother to do some of the Prince's signature moves. In some parking lot or similar space, if I remember correctly.
The sprite sheets (jumping, running, landing) on the first one were so rad compared to anything else around that time, so fluid. That photo from his office wall really shows how much effort went into them
Some of them were made from 'rotoscoping' video recordings of his younger brother. Videos exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKgLfqOVHco
Fun fact: the original Assassin's Creed game was originally a sequel to Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time called Prince of Persia: Assassin . In the original concept, you protected the prince instead of playing the prince himself, playing in an open-world environment. Ubisoft didn't like the idea of not playing the prince himself, so they spun it out into a separate property and came up with all the other plot poin…
Thanks for sharing this. Do you have a source for this fact? :)
The book for me is about spirit of working on your own projects, about curiosity and passion on whatever you choose to pursuit.
Fun fact: the original Assassin's Creed game was originally a sequel to Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time called Prince of Persia: Assassin . In the original concept, you protected the prince instead of playing the prince himself, playing in an open-world environment. Ubisoft didn't like the idea of not playing the prince himself, so they spun it out into a separate property and came up with all the other plot poin…
Thanks for sharing this. Do you have a source for this fact? :)
The sprite sheets (jumping, running, landing) on the first one were so rad compared to anything else around that time, so fluid. That photo from his office wall really shows how much effort went into them
Some of them were made from 'rotoscoping' video recordings of his younger brother. Videos exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKgLfqOVHco
Here's a playable version hosted by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Prince_of_Persia_1990 Enjoy !
Oh man. Where did the time go? I still have the opening music stuck in my head. I recall making a map on paper with my cousins of all levels so we could memorize them to finish the game. Hours of playing late way past bed time. Such a beautiful game with a romantic love story.. Man, where did the time go?