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Jordan Mechner

1964 - Today

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Jordan Mechner (born June 4, 1964) is an American video game designer, graphic novelist, author, screenwriter, filmmaker, and former video game programmer. A major figure in the development of cinematic video games and a pioneer in video game animation, he began his career designing and programming the 1984 martial arts game Karateka for the Apple II while a student at Yale University. The game was a bestseller. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jordan Mechner has received more than 471,941 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Jordan Mechner is the 51st most popular game designer (down from 46th in 2019), the 12,468th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,343rd in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Game Designer.

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  • 470k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 37.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Jordan Mechner ranks 51 out of 56. Before him are Yoshinori Kitase, Tim Schafer, Koji Igarashi, Todd Howard, Michel Ancel, and Michael Morhaime. After him are Mark Cerny, John Tobias, Neil Druckmann, Éric Chahi, Chris Metzen, and Chris Sawyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Jordan Mechner ranks 582. Before him are Satoshi Furukawa, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Jonas Sjöstedt, Dedee Pfeiffer, Patrick Fabian, and Erica Gimpel. After him are Mark Cerny, George Newbern, Hendrie Krüzen, Frode Grodås, Andrei Borisenko, and Ty Pennington.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jordan Mechner ranks 12,468 out of 18,182. Before him are Walter Abel (1898), Paolo Bacigalupi (1972), Nathan Deal (1942), Russell A. Alger (1836), Kurt Elling (1967), and Bryan Burk (1968). After him are Sendhil Ramamurthy (1974), Barbara Nichols (1928), Jessie Ralph (1864), John Otto (1977), Tim Meadows (1961), and Colin Cunningham (1966).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In United States

Among game designers born in United States, Jordan Mechner ranks 18. Before him are Scott Cawthon (1971), Ed Boon (1964), Carol Shaw (1955), Tim Schafer (1967), Todd Howard (1971), and Michael Morhaime (1967). After him are Mark Cerny (1964), John Tobias (1969), Chris Metzen (1973), Tom Hall (1964), American McGee (1972), and Jeff Kaplan (1972).

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