By: Jordan Mechner

About: Personal Diary about game development.

https://www.amazon.com/Making-Prince-Persia-Journals-1985-1993-Illustrated/dp/0578627310/

Overall review: 👍

Notes:

Some quotes from Jordan throughout the book.

“Danny thinks spending a million bucks on a development system will give him an edge. He might be right. But the best Apple games have been developed on a plain Apple II with disk drives. The real strides forward… were the work of solo programmers with no special resources.” 9/11/86

“This game is hot. It’s going to go over very, very well. If I’m wrong about that, then I don’t know anything and I should get into a different line of work.” 8/19/89 (pre-launch)

“I’m less than sanguine about Broderbund’s ability to push the envelope on [Prince of Persia 2] with their present staff and corporate structure. The job requires a tyrant, and Broderbund has none.” 3/11/91

“Children are tyrants, they don’t care who they hurt to get what they want.” 11/18/92