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Jordan Mechner

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New York, The United States

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Fiction, Comics, Memoir

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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

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	The Making of Prince of Persia 4.10 avg rating — 2,007 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Templar by Jordan Mechner (Goodreads Author), LeUyen Pham (Illustrator), Alex Puvilland (Illustrator) 3.89 avg rating — 1,162 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Making of Karateka 4.16 avg rating — 517 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Replay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family 4.07 avg rating — 459 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Solomon's Thieves by Jordan Mechner (Goodreads Author), LeUyen Pham (Illustrator), Alex Puvilland (Illustrator) 3.64 avg rating — 236 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prince of Persia Before the Sandstorm -- A Graphic Novel Anthology by Jordan Mechner (Goodreads Author), Todd McFarlane (Illustrator), Niko Henrichon (Illustrator) 3.50 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Monte Cristo by Jordan Mechner (Goodreads Author), Mario Alberti (artist) 3.97 avg rating — 35 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El Principe de Persia - Las Arenas del Tiempo 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le prisonnier (Monte-Cristo, #1) by Jordan Mechner (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Mario Alberti (Illustrator) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Monte Cristo - Tome 02: L'Île by Jordan Mechner (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Mario Alberti (Drawings) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Jordan Mechner

Mechner Journals (2 books)
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4.11 avg rating — 2,524 ratings

Solomon's Thieves (1 book)
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LeUyen Pham (Illustrator),

Alex Puvilland (Illustrator)

3.89 avg rating — 1,162 ratings

Prince of Persia: Before the Sandstorm (4 books)
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Jordan Mechner (Goodreads Author)

3.50 avg rating — 126 ratings

Monte-Cristo (3 books)
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Jordan Mechner (Goodreads Author),

Mario Alberti (Illustrator)

3.96 avg rating — 57 ratings

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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

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“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

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“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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