Jordan Mechner is one of the most popular and richest Inventor who was born on June 4, 1964 in New York, United States. American writer, filmmaker as well as the creator behind the cult Prince of Persia video game franchise. His documentary film from 2003, Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story, was one time a contender to receive the Academy Award nomination.
He was the writer of Michael Turner’s Fathom that starred He wrote the screenplay for the film version of Michael Turner’s Fathom, which starred 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.
Mechner was born in New York City, into a family of European Jewish immigrants. His father is psychologist Francis Mechner, and his mother was a programmer. He attended Yale University in the 1980s.
He was born living in New York City and later moved to Los Angeles.
