It’s pronounced “cara-take-a.” And the hit Apple II game is coming back this year. Jordan Mechner’s best known for Prince of Persia, the platformer action game that became one of gaming’s first independently developed hits. PoP went on to get sequels and a whole new re-imagining in 2003 that led to a multi-part franchise and eventually a blockbuster movie scripted by Mechner.
While the majority of Jordan Mechner’s talk at Comic-Con earlier today focused on all things Prince of Persia, some fans veered slightly off-topic, picking the programmer’s brain on his other titles — Karateka and The Last Express.
The former, Mechner’s first commercial game, an early 2D fighter published by Brøderbund and known for its fluid animation, is planned to get an update (of sorts). Details on the Karateka project weren’t provided, but Mechner teased the crowd by saying “I can safely say it’s not going to be the way that you expect”. He did, however, say he would be directly “involved”, a claim he didn’t make about Ubisoft’s recent Prince of Persia releases.
Mechner also let the crowd in on the particulars of a hilarious Easter egg in the original Karateka.