# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jordan-mechner
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:25:30.421Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jordan-mechner"
name: "Jordan Mechner"
slug: "jordan-mechner"
description: "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."
tagline: "American video game designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jordan_Mechner_GDCA_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "developers"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1964-06-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 28
totalFollowers: 1001
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump