TRACING YOUR WAY TO NUMBER ONE
Aug 22, 2018
4 minutes
“Back home with a giant stack of photos, Mechner then traced each one into the Apple IIe with the VersaWriter.”
PRINCE OF PERSIA (THE FIRST ONE)
DEVELOPERS JORDAN MECHNER
PERSONALITIES UH... JORDAN MECHNER
RELEASED 1989
NUTSHELL Simultaneously “failing” college and at the same moment having his Apple IIe game Karateka hit the Billboard number one [“Me and Madonna. Yow.”] put Mechner in a weird creative space. As a result, he made a game with animation at least five years ahead of its time. By cheating just like Walt Disney.
Good artists master technique. Great artists invent some kind of tool or machine so they can skip the tedious 10,000 hour process of mastering that technique. We have a special word for this kind of
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