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I was at a friend's halloween party around 2010 (with a bunch of ex-USC people) and there was a guy quietly sketching in the corner, I walked over and immediate

I was at a friend's halloween party around 2010 (with a bunch of ex-USC people) and there was a guy quietly sketching in the corner, I walked over and immediately recognized his drawing style. "are you Jordan Mechner?" I followed his sketch blog at some point. we had a short conversation, I told him how much I loved The last express (he joked I might be the only one) and I didnt mention how young I was when I discovered prince of persia. Really great guy, quiet, unassuming and just nice. Interesting party that night, I met another game industry person I admired as well as some other fascinating folks.

anyfoo 4y ago
The Last Express seems to have some kind of a renaissance in the past few years. It's about 25 years old buy now, which definitely fits the "retro" category, and as part of that people into computer gaming history rediscover it and laud it for what it is.
- jslakro 4y ago
  That game tried to satisfy the personal aspirations of Jordan as a filmaker. A risky bet on narrative and realtime puzzles
  - shahar2k 4y ago
    true but also in many ways it was successful, within the limits of what could be done at the time. the way every event on the train keeps going regardless of whether you're there or not is something that nowadays you'd associate with a game like Outer wilds, a wonderful physics sandbox of a puzzler, but Last express did it with FMV and point and click! it's damn impressive and I bet a remake using something like metahumans could be interesting.
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