조던 메크너

소개

조던 메크너(Jordan Mechner, 1964년 7월 4일 ~ )는 미국의 비디오 게임 디자이너, 저자, 영화 제작자이다. 브로더번드 애플 II 게임 가라테카와 페르시아의 왕자를 1980년대에 디자인하고 프로그래밍했으며 페르시아의 왕자의 경우 멀티플랫폼 시리즈로 확대되었다.

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.