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Mechner's first hit game was '' Karateka '' ( 1984 ), written while he was still a student at Yale University . With the release of '' Prince Of Persia '' in 1989 , Mechner revolutionized the quality of Computer Animation used in Computer And Video Games . Both titles were published by Brøderbund . For the animations used in ''Prince of Persia'', Mechner spent days studying Video s and photographs of his brother David running and jumping and meticulously replicated the actions in his game. No animation used in games up to that date had such realistic movements. Mechner was born in New York City and graduated from Yale University in 1985 . In 1993 , Jordan formed Smoking Car Productions, an Entertainment Software Development Group based in San Francisco to create '' The Last Express ''. While critically acclaimed, the game failed commercially, and Smoking Car Productions was forced to close. In '', was released in December 2005 . Mechner was unhappy with the direction taken by the latest two Prince of Persia games. In the December 2005 issue of Wired Magazine he said: "I'm not a fan of the artistic direction, or the violence that earned it an M rating. The story, character, dialog, voice acting, and visual style were not to my taste." Mechner today divides his time between writing Screenplay s and designing video games. He also wrote and directed two award-winning Documentaries ''Waiting for Dark'' and ''Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story''. GAMES
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