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Jordan Mechner

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Video game designer and former programmer. Known for designing and programming the cinematic martial arts game Karateka and the widely ported hit game Prince of Persia.

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Jordan Mechner @JordanMechner · May 17, 2023
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I loved this movie so much. I wonder if it's as good as I remember.

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Local Hero (1983)
by Bill Forsyth
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Jordan Mechner @JordanMechner · Dec 21, 2022
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Great thread. Sad but happy. Three cheers for @lklinger! Les, I had no idea. You are a hero.

Tweet Dec 20, 2022
40 years ago, giant entertainment companies embarked on a slow-moving act of arson. The fuel for this arson was #copyright #TermExtension (making copyrights last longer), including *retrospective* copyright term extensions that took works out of the
by Cory Doctorow
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Jordan Mechner @JordanMechner · Jul 20, 2022
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Great article! Now I want to watch it…

Article Jul 18, 2022
Why a show about 'The Godfather' is the best Jewish TV right now
by Leah Garrett
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Jordan Mechner @JordanMechner · Jun 25, 2022
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Iain McGilchrist, « The Master and his Emissary »… brilliant book, packed with insights like this Left-hemisphere-dominated art criticism has « airbrushed beauty out of the story of art, like a public figure that has fallen from favor in a brutal regime »

Book Oct 30, 2009
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
by Iain McGilchrist
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Jordan Mechner @JordanMechner · May 6, 2022
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Thanks for that nice and thoughtful article!

Article May 6, 2022
The Last Express is as mesmerising and relevant as ever, 25 years later
by David Wildgoose
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