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Making of Prince of Persia now available as an ebook
- ssdsa 15y agoThanks for the head up. I bought it right away!
- philipDS 15y agoI'd love to read it, but I think it's kinda pricey..
- freeman478 15y agosee my other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3134741 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3134741). They are still available online here http://jordanmechner.com/old-journals/ http://jordanmechner.com/old-journals/
- philipDS 15y agoThanks, will check it! :)
- reitzensteinm 15y ago8 bucks for a 300 page book? What's that, $1.60 per hour of reading time? If anything it's generously priced.
- philipDS 15y agoWould you measure quality in number of pages? I was just being honest, and I think it's quite pricey for just some "notes". Maybe the notes are of exceptional quality, in which case I'll be happy to pay 8 dollars. I will have a look at it though.
- adestefan 15y agoI spent a good chunk of time last fall reading through them and it's a fascinating look at how games were made at the time. It's very well done.
- adam-a 15y agoI read most of the journal entries when they were on his site (they seem to be removed now) and found them hugely interesting. He is obviously very talented, not just at making games, but also as a writer; he wrote the screenplay for the recent PoP movie. The journal was well written and a really interesting view on the 80's video game industry. The only shame is that this eBook won't contain the videos that were in the journals before. Most of the animation in the original PoP was done by rotoscoping (or something like that) and he uploaded some of the old footage he used. There was a particularly great one of his brother doing the running turn, which was remarkably recognisable. I would definitely recommend if you have any interest in making games, or in the creative process in general.
- freeman478 15y agoThey are still available here (http://jordanmechner.com/old-journals/ http://jordanmechner.com/old-journals/) but they are not linked in the post :)
- epaga 15y agoSome real gems there, like the old video material he used to draw the animations. http://jordanmechner.com/old-journals/1985/10/october-20-1985 http://jordanmechner.com/old-journals/1985/10/october-20-198...
- bad_user 15y agoNice -- this is actually the first book that I'm buying for my Kindle and it's worth it. Up until now I've been reading prose from project Gutenberg, online articles with the help of Instapaper and technical books available for free. Btw, on my Kindle I've also began reading Thinking in C++; Bruce Eckel has a very wordy style, but it's pretty cool if you have the patience and I think it's one of those technical books that can be read on a Kindle. I've been formatting it for Kindle, posted here in case anyone is interested: https://github.com/alexandru/ThinkInCPP4Kindle https://github.com/alexandru/ThinkInCPP4Kindle
- philbarr 15y agothat's great, thanks!
- aw3c2 15y agoNice, I have his journal in HTML on my reader but never got around making them nicely readable.
- shadowsun7 15y agoI paid immediately. This is a great book, if you want a preview, go here: http://jordanmechner.com/wp-content/uploads/resources/POP_sample.pdf http://jordanmechner.com/wp-content/uploads/resources/POP_sa...