page_title: Jordan Mechner
section_title: Writing and directing
hierarchical_section_title: Jordan Mechner / Career / Writing and directing
caption_attribution_description: Jordan Mechner, the creator of Prince of Persia, participates in a panel on the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time film at WonderCon 2010.
context_page_description: Jordan Mechner is an American video game designer, author, screenwriter, and filmmaker. He is best known for designing and programming the Broderbund Apple II games Karateka and Prince of Persia in the 1980s, the latter of which grew into a multi-platform franchise.
context_section_description: In 2003, Mechner wrote and directed the documentary film, Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story. It won the 2003 IDA award for Best Short Documentary, was short-listed for an Academy Award nomination, and received its broadcast premiere on PBS Independent Lens in 2005.
  Mechner collaborated with a team on the 2008 Prince of Persia graphic novel. Mechner's completely original graphic novel Templar was published in July 2013. Templar became a New York Times best-selling book and was nominated for an Eisner award. Mechner also wrote the graphic novel, Prince of Persia: Before the Sandstorm, to tie in with the release of the film in 2010.
  Mechner has written a screenplay for a film adaptation of Michael Turner's Fathom for Fox Studios with actress Megan Fox.
  Mechner self-published two volumes of his game development journals from the 1980s, one describing the making of Karateka and the other on Prince of Persia. Mechner was able to recover the source code of the Prince of Persia game from recently found 23-year-old 3.5″ Apple ProDOS floppy disks and posted it online.
caption: Jordan Mechner at WonderCon 2010
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