Prince Of Persia Source Code, Open Sourced!!

[nims11]

Before Prince of Persia was a best-selling video game franchise and a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, it was an Apple II computer game created and programmed by one person, Jordan Mechner.

Not only is Prince of Persia now available as a paperback and ebook, but the source is now on GitHub!

The original Prince of Persia source code recently “just turned up” after being lost for 22 years. Jordan Mechner and two stalwart companions dedicated most of a day and night extracting the source and posting it on github. His friend Jamie — who knows the term “source code” primarily as the title of the movie Jake Gyllenhaal did after Prince of Persia — looking as confused as before, asked “Why?!?”

Source: Prince of Persia Source Code, Open Sourced! - The Changelog - Open Source moves fast. Keep up.

 

[Desmond]

I thought it was already open. There have been certain variants POP around for sometime now. For example Prince of Persia 4D

 

[nims11]

Those are just mods created by editing map and config files.

 

[Desmond]

ok ok...

Now you can create your own POP clone. Nice..

 

[coolpcguy]

ok ok...

Now you can create your own POP clone. Nice..

Not really. Unless you know 6502 assembly & convert it to x86

Also note that Jordan has made it clear:

Please understand that this does NOT constitute a grant of rights of any kind in Prince of Persia, which is an ongoing Ubisoft game franchise. Ubisoft alone has the right to make and distribute Prince of Persia games.