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A review by tronella
The Making of Karateka by Jordan Mechner
4.0
(Review of this and of The Making of Prince of Persia.)
These are Jordan's diaries, starting from his student days and carrying on until a year or so after the release of Prince of Persia. I found these very entertaining from a tech history point of view ("Roland came over for breakfast and we installed an extra 1 MB in my Mac."), and it was interesting to see all the details of how the games were designed and publicised. The description of his method of motion capture to get the sprites' movements looking more realistic was particularly good. However, reading his excuses to himself for procrastinating was quite frustrating - probably because they remind me of me!
These are Jordan's diaries, starting from his student days and carrying on until a year or so after the release of Prince of Persia. I found these very entertaining from a tech history point of view ("Roland came over for breakfast and we installed an extra 1 MB in my Mac."), and it was interesting to see all the details of how the games were designed and publicised. The description of his method of motion capture to get the sprites' movements looking more realistic was particularly good. However, reading his excuses to himself for procrastinating was quite frustrating - probably because they remind me of me!