The Making of Prince of Persia
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Introduction I STARTED KEEPING A JOURNAL in college, and kept it up for several years afterward. During those years I created my first games, Kara- teka and Prince of Persia, on an Apple II computer. It was the start of a journey that would see my shape-shifting prince transform into a modern video game hero, LEGO minifigure, and even Jake Gyllenhaal in a summer blockbuster movie. But in 1985, he existed only as a few scribbles on a yellow-lined pad. In my old journals I recorded his birth pangs. Rereading these notebooks twenty years later, reliving the creative, technical and…
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