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The Making of Prince of Persia (jordanmechner.com)
60 points by alex_c on Nov 20, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments



This is a totally awesome read. It's basically Microserfs or JPod, but for real. Total treasure trove for guys who grew up in the nineties with games like Prince of Persia.


Especially eye-opening was how they waited two years after release hoping the game would spread by word of mouth, it didn't, so they did a traditional marketing push and succeeded.


and via reddit, original source code documentation (pdf):

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a6ai7/prince_of...


Thanks for posting that link, that's how I found the journals :)


I stayed up way, way too late reading this. An astounding story, and very well told. Amazing and inspiring that someone could blend the arts, hacking, and business to such a degree.


Really cool read. It appears to be down now, which is a shame because I'm halfway done!


Not sure what was more thrilling to read "Dracula" or this "Old journals".


Nice journal! I should start one for my next major project.


prince of persia and wolfenstein were what got my interestes in computers when I was a kid. great times.




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