Replay is the family memoir of the prince of game development | Jordan Mechner interview

Jordan Mechner has been an amazing game designer since he debuted Karateka in 1984 and Prince of Persia in 1989. But one of his most memorable contributions to the industry will be his graphic novel memoir Replay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family, which debuted last week during the Game Developers Conference.

It’s a personal memoir not only of Mechner‘s four decades of life as a game designer, but the story of survival of his parents and grandparents during two world wars. The sacrifices and risks that his family took to survive World War I and escape from Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II enabled him to have an ordinary life that in turn let him grow up to be a gifted creator.