Videotaped David running and jumping in the Reader’s Digest parking lot. It’ll do for a start.
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So cool! You can really see how that turned into the animation.
I’ve always loved this video. Really shows the true origin of fluid animation that gripped many of us back in the day.
First of all, I found your site through John August’s, as I’m a frequent reader of his postings and screenwriting instruction. And I’m glad I did find it, this site brings back so many memories of playing Prince of Persia on my old 486-IBM with my older sister (who I’ve forwarded your site to). We used to play for hours trying to navigate our way through the most difficult levels.
This video is particularly nostalgic for me, as I’m sure it is for many, because the enactment is so genuine to what the animation boiled down to in the final product.
Awesome!!!
Please keep posting the old journal entries.
Best,
John
Hey, Jordan. Some of that was definitely filmed at Horace Greeley High School; David is jumping in front of several obvious landmarks.
Oh man, those are SO the motions! Haha, amazing!
Thanks so much for posting this! I always knew Prince of Persia was one of my all-time favourite games, but it wasn’t until I saw that jump and gasped in recognition that I realised how much I cherished it.
Didn’t realize it until watching this great footage, but Prince of Persia = parkour precursor.
Jeff – that’s what I thought of immediately! Looks like a kid just getting into Parkour! Wow, so…it seems Prince of Persia planted a little seed in me when I was a wee boy to eventually grow into a love for Parkour… Interesting.
Thanks for posting this. I had read all the PoP interviews in the past where you talked about this, though for some reason I’d always assumed it was a series of still photographs.
This is so much better and brings a nostalgic tear to my eye.
Did your brother grow up to be a stuntman?
So cool! Just wanted to say thanks for posting this
Seeing that is pretty jarring as a graduate of HGHS. They still have that wall in the first shot, and the tree is significantly larger… weird.
Thank you for making this game. Just downloaded it on my PS3 and it is a blast.
That is incredible.
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Is this game Prince of Persia? I was playing before Windows 95. Old days…
Heh, there’s a joke about this in Zero Punctuation review of the newer Prince of Persia.
I thought he had made up the part about “filming your little brother running in pajamas”
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Died from jumping off such a short a wall??? He surely must have had the last bit of health
What can I say…. Man, you made history with this game, I don’t have words to express how much I had played (and love) “Prince of Persia(the original)”.
1 millons of Thanks for publish this!, you are an excellent artist.
Many people didnt valorize this work, but I know that it was a incredible, amazing work.
Thanks Again!
Glod bless you!
Keep on that way
This is so the Prince. And what a beautifully fluid runner David was!