# Jordan Mechner

> Jordan Mechner is an American video game designer, graphic novelist, author, screenwriter, filmmaker, and former video game programmer. A major figure in the development of cinematic video games and a pioneer in video game animation, he began his career designing and programming the bestselling 1984 martial arts game Karateka for the Apple II while a student at Yale University. He followed it with the platform game Prince of Persia five years later; it was widely ported and became a hit. Both games used rotoscoping, where actors shot on film by Mechner were drawn over to create in-game animation. Prince of Persia has become the basis for a long-running franchise, including a 2010 live-action film released by Walt Disney Pictures and an ongoing series of video games published by Ubisoft.

*American video game designer*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/jordan-mechner

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Developer ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740))
- **Category:** Developers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1964-06-04
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 65.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 3.3 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 20.5 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 80.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #28
- **Total followers across platforms:** 1,001

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/jmechner (@jmechner)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0575338/ (@nm0575338)
- **WEBSITE**: https://jordanmechner.com/
- **GITHUB**: https://github.com/jmechner (@jmechner, 1,001 followers)

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