Does anyone have the article talking about Jordan and the development of this game? I was really inspired by it!
Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released
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Re: Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released
#12This game really did pioneer great animation in video games (wasn't it the first one to use rotoscoping?), but damn was it punishingly hard.
I still have a phobic reaction seeing screenshots of this game :)
Re: Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released
#13Does anyone have the article talking about Jordan and the development of this game? I was really inspired by it!
Detailed blog written during development starts here: http://jordanmechner.com/old-journals/
I've read it end to end. Expect it to take a day. Very inspiring.
Re: Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released
#14Very nice. I'm back in my retro computing phase atm and trying to do some ports from the C64 to the MSX (fun hacking!). This is great work; any annotated assembly source?
According to the comments on the post, he'll be putting up chunks of annotated assembly. This is a seriously, seriously impressive effort.
Indeed! Fantastic!
Re: Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released
#15Ohh the memories. Back in '90 or '91 I was teaching myself Turbo Pascal and completely sucking so badly at PoP that I wrote a cheat - I made a little DOS GUI save game editor that could max out your lives and/or time remaining. I released it to the wild but sadly there's no chance of finding that source again.
Re: Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released
#16This game really did pioneer great animation in video games (wasn't it the first one to use rotoscoping?), but damn was it punishingly hard. I still have a phobic reaction seeing screenshots of this game :)
I think Karateka, 5 years before Prince of Persia, was the first rotoscoped game. Jordan Mechner made both of them though.
Re: Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released
#17Ohh the memories. Back in '90 or '91 I was teaching myself Turbo Pascal and completely sucking so badly at PoP that I wrote a cheat - I made a little DOS GUI save game editor that could max out your lives and/or time remaining. I released it to the wild but sadly there's no chance of finding that source again.
How'd you release to the wild back then? BBS?
Re: Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released
#18In case anyone hasn't seen them yet, here's a few videos of Jordan Mechner and his brother performing moves that would later become Prince of Persia's in-game animations:
Re: Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released
#19Does anyone have the article talking about Jordan and the development of this game? I was really inspired by it!
Detailed blog written during development starts here: http://jordanmechner.com/old-journals/ I've read it end to end. Expect it to take a day. Very inspiring.
This is one of the best, inspiring first person looks at the mind of a superb software artist. When I read it, it took about ten hours to read it in a single, captive sitting.
Re: Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released
#20I used to watch my dad play this when I was a little boy. When the prince landed in the spikes it would make me jump and I had to put my hands over my ears because of the scary sound. :]
Oof, boy do I feel old now. Wasn't it just yesterday I was teaching myself 6502 assembly on my Apple ][?