Behind the Scenes - Prince of Persia (1989) [Making of]

[@PADARM]

This belongs in a museum. It's a Masterpiece

[@PlanepGuy]

Actually i've put a copy next to the joconde at the louvre museum at france 🎉

[@epicon6]

Yeah this is a treasure! This guy gave it so much life and character. Not many would have moved in this kind of an awkward way but it works so well in the game

[@RodrigoFernandez-td9uk]

So, one guy runs, jumps, falls, rolls, but they put another to hug the princess. That's unfair.

[@sohamkorade1]

😂

[@bingesquad1]

The producer gets to hug

[@cioccolateriaveneziana]

The younger brother was still a kid.

[@almaximus03]

🤣

[@zoltardreamusic2552]

Of course you have to chose a couple of the same height, to make things easier.

[@The_Uberfly]

Props to the guy who impaled himself for making the fall realistic

[@FelipeF78]

I was always impressed by the high quality animations of such an old title. Cool to see how they did it.

[@MrJeanBombers]

It looks like it's rotoscoped

[@Astro_80]

@@MrJeanBombers It is.

[@quietdemon8138]

MrJeanBombers yep you are exactly right the sole creator and designer of the game Jordon Mechner (who has his own KZbin channel btw) filmed his brother jumping, climbing and running with a video camera, he then took the individual film frames and traced over them with tracing paper, scanned them into the Apple 2 and digitised the frames then he animated them with his custom animation tool kit and that’s why for a game released back in 1989 it’s movements were so realistic

[@AminNazari666]

@@quietdemon8138 wow so basically the prince character is his brother!

[@gutz1981]

Wow, not even capturing the moves and footage in a studio. Just outdoors with a cheap video camera. Hats off to these guys.

[@soarixchannel5265]

They had to start somewhere. They had a low budget.

[@Peter_1986]

They use the same rotoscoping techniques for a lot of animated movies as well. That's why several of the Disney characters in old Disney movies have such lifelike expressions and movements.

[@earthsteward70]

They didn't even have good VHS, they had super 8

[@mohammedkumkumji9081]

Back in the day no video camera was cheap!!!

[@christopherwall2121]

@@Peter_1986 Especially in _Sleeping Beauty_

[@scorpionjimmy8734]

This game has a amazing animation I was shock at the first

[@rothauspils123]

This game kicked my ass when I was a kid. SO hard yet so fascinating I couldn't stop playing.

[@cluxter-org]

This is what was great with these games: they were hard. Like really. All of them. Dune 2, Prince of Persia, The Lion King, Galacta The Battle for Saturn, Donkey Kong Country (on Super NES): I was never able to finish one of them even as an adult. It took me 15 years to finish C&C Red Alert, I couldn't do it as a child. Same with Half Life (#1 of course). And the fact that usually you couldn't even save the game made it even harder, but also way more fun, because it was a real challenge for yourself. The joy that I got each time I was able to make some progress in one game was incredible. Since they were so hard, the pleasure of playing them was spread out on several years, and as you would evolve as a teenager and as an adult, your ability to progress in the games was increasing. Nowadays you can finish many video games in a matter of a few hours. It took me one night to finish Call of Duty Modern Warfare (the first version). If you're looking for a modern video game which feels like these good old games, I would definitely recommend Factorio. One game takes at least 20 hours, probably more 40h when you're a beginner, and there are an incredible amount of possibilities with it so you can challenge yourself and have a lot of fun. If you have some other suggestions, please share them here!! 🙏

[@eduardoosorio6978]

This game was beyond its time by a large margin

[@baardbi]

Awesome! I wish we had more videos like this, documenting game development in the 80s and 90s.

[@fristytron]

I remember being 9 years old, in shock, watching and playing this in a Philips 8086 with cga monochrome. What a time.

[@supratikghoshal5561]

Before Assassins' creed, Mirror edge . . Once upon a time, there was a Prince.

[@mcvmalaguitaman1]

Oh god... This video mus´t dissapear never. Should survive at least, until the next century. The origen of a real legend and masterpiece of videogames.

[@GreatRottweiler]

To think all of this was rotoscoped to make the movement in the game quite fluid and authentic. Great memories as a kid growing in the 90's.

[@arcticangel1628]

Just like lightsabers.

[@overtonefinds6385]

Still one of the best games ever made.

[@aliasesableable]

defintly !!

[@Palamedes2009]

Castle level

[@FordzyS]

Mechner is genius. Probably first motion capture in gaming history.

[@litjellyfish]

Fordzy see my other comment job this thread. First it’s rotoscoping and not motion capture. Second the technique used her was used years before in several games.

[@ThePreciseClimber]

@@litjellyfish Rotoscoping is a type of motion capture. You capture the motion.

[@litjellyfish]

@@ThePreciseClimber well if that case animation itself is a capture of motion. Even if it’s drawn directly by hand from a visual reference. What I refer to is the definition of motion capture when the term was coined. And it’s not rotoscoping. As said rotoscoping as a term and concept was done starting in the late 1930s

[@ThePreciseClimber]

@@litjellyfish > well if that case animation itself is a capture of motion Some of it was, yes. But some of it wasn't. Motion capture should mean "the capturing of the motion," otherwise it's a bad term. Like immersive sim.

[@litjellyfish]

@@ThePreciseClimber well thing is that rotoscoping is not capturing anything. It’s exactly what it’s stated to be. Project a reference photo so an artist (or sometimes automatically digitally) can trace that motion. Whole motion capture actually captures motion data that is translated to motion. Again this is how the terms are defined and used. It might not be the best terms but that is how it is so we should ideally use them accordingly to that or it might be wrong info

[@Arominit]

Pixel animations are better looking than the best current 3D engines

[@nazwanadwanabilah3011]

I appreciate that

[@cluxter-org]

Exactly. Take a look at Factorio if you don't know it, you might like it.

[@bj0urne]

The animations in this game are pure magic

[@Oligampla]

Amazing video! Very interesting too see how it was made. Jordan Mechner is a genius!

[@mattpili]

2:25 happiest times in gaming

[@CarlinhosdaDalva]

Karateca and Prince of Persia were the first games to use motion capture of real actors and influence games to this day with the use of mocap

[@edskt_]

It's incredible how a game created so many years ago can be so iconic and revolutionary to this day, created by one person and with so little resources, today we have trillion-dollar companies among many others with so much technology, and absolutely no one can do it or creating something close to this, that to me is incredible, congratulations Jordan Mechner and thank you.

[@Belgrythaz]

Amazing that this footage exists!

[@JohnMcCulloch75]

What an absolute legend Jordan Mechner is

[@pedro75557]

Better animations than Mass Effect: Andromeda

[@asrielplays3302]

@GodZpeed X7 it's a *J O K E*

[@gnoldi]

@@asrielplays3302 I can imagine no better compliment than GodZpeed commentary.

[@hdled128]

@@asrielplays3302 ASRIEL KKK

[@fable80]

This is art

[@MrMinime576]

Was one of my 2 favorite computer games back in the 90s.

[@sindobrandnew]

3:27 Oh.... wonder who the actor was.

[@leopoldolugones7302]

It's great to see this! Also, glad yo didn't include the reference footage for the guillotine parts

[@Dirtybob23]

I'm glad I subscribed. What an interesting video.

[@gabrielaugusto6001]

awesome video... i used to play it when i was like 5 years old

[@jalenikezeue4114]

Bless 🙏🏿 everyone on this project it's Magnificent And thank you Mr Mechner And Mr Guillemette👍🏿⭐👍🏿⭐👍🏿⭐⭐👍🏿⭐👍🏿⭐⭐👍🏿

[@MF-qy2bm]

Amazing. Thanks for the uploader

[@asagoodfriend]

A Timeless Classic!🌹🌟💯

[@renumanhas5401]

Prince of persia is the best

[@Astro_80]

Until Ubisoft got a hold of the franchise.

[@quietdemon8138]

Frank Micucci sands of time was awesome but the rest of their Persia games have been pretty much mediocre

[@kejiri3593]

@@quietdemon8138 They did get Jordan Mechner on Sands of Time reboot from 2003... but after that, it kind of went its own way. But old Prince of Persia is great!

[@deensaid7762]

​@@quietdemon8138Warrior Within, Two Thrones and the 2008 version would like to have a word for you

[@micheleporcu2287]

always AMAZING to watch !

[@victorgustavo4366]

The most of fighting classic games (like as SF and KOF) the sprite animations is build by hand... This guys can take a real movements to make ower game.

[@georgeorever7206]

Awesome video. I've been thanking since first time played POP, HOW THEY MAKING IT? It's like a dream. The Story, music, animation and movements. I adore this game.

[@OzanOzz]

I played this game in 91 or 92 on my highscreen 386DX :) nice old days... PoP 2 was a revolution later

[@aliasesableable]

amazing !!

[@MrAngek88]

Legend

[@maxpain4501]

Gold.

[@emoldandriel]

Amazing development story

[@gman2015z]

I enjoyed this video very much. I loved the reboot game on the original Xbox in 2003 but I remember they had the classic on that disc.

[@thescopedogable]

I had no idea Pop was so old amazing stuff

[@djosearth3618]

10:05 they couldn't Rotoscope that with less repetition in the cells somehow especially with such limited storage capacity ? I guess key frames and such may not occur to such a young developer, self described as self taught ;]

[@tufanstilinski1355]

AMAZING

[@Konsker]

love this game's music

[@MetalGearSolidgaming]

This is truly amazing to watch, I only wish I could see more development footage after the 3rd month, to see everything up until the test footage

[@fajarkurniawan9434]

Just realized that middle-east prince has the ability of western swordfight

[@erkascazuchi8443]

so, guys. where did you find a model for a awaking skeleton?

[@gnoldi]

Fashion shows.

[@MidoseitoAkage]

The bone

[@markhorvath7611]

and where are motion capture videos for the jaw doors and spike traps?

[@MapleLand-t5p]

@@markhorvath7611 haha so I think when the prince die from those things, the animation is not as real as the prince jump or run. Maybe it is the cause.

[@gnoldi]

I'm not crying. You're crying.

[@xaldioDev]

Chills

[@ut2k4wikichici]

pretty insane animation for a 30 year old game

[@thatonecatwithalotofmemes]

They used rotoscope

[@frncscbtncrt]

The book is pretty cool: “The making of Prince of Persia”

[@sastiago11]

Infancia vrgs, un placer y un privilegio saber cómo se grabaron las escenas

[@celinesenden4142]

Amazing

[@OSP_AsCeNSioN]

thx for uploading :) did yu create this video, or was it made back then..? how'd yu acquire this footage..? awesom insight!

[@AndreyMr9999]

Animation looks much better than most of modern games

[@श्रीजनरिजाल]

Even you know you're lying.

[@erkascazuchi8443]

2:15 lol that man looks like Devon Larrat, an arm wrestler

[@gnoldi]

Or late captain Phil Harris from Cornelia Marie

[@DmitriSkif]

Why some animation frames are corrupt there? Video convertion artifacts?

[@Felix-Sited]

Just imagine the Prince Of Persia guy! I would love accolade.

[@hzhz3469]

As a kid I`ve tryed to jump like the prince.

[@courage7638]

Who else knows that it was coded in assembly language. Unbelievable!

[@TheAxelay]

Internet archive/Wayback Machine this wonder!!!

[@celinesenden4142]

32 anniversary of prince of persia

[@azeniey]

if your are watching this,means you are OLD! :P

[@bigboyanimation3799]

that is right i remember playing prince in the middle of the 1990's on MS DOS computer at school

[@huertahector1715]

Very nice

[@piotrgrugel2125]

1:10 - Is it Éric Chahi?!...

[@j04370859]

0:47 is this a different game?

[@Ottophil]

Early title

[@wayneqjr]

1989 Prince of Persia is made. 1990 tripods are invented.

[@mylifeisfunny8911]

nostalgic

[@NaldinhoGX]

Had he not gone outside and climbed random walls then filmed it in 1985, Assassin's Creed wouldn't exist today.

[@munawarshahafridi7921]

Are these developers/engineers still alive??? How they managed in 1989??? They are the foundation really.

[@thunderpeel2001]

It was just one dude: Jordan Mechner. It was a different time.

[@vladdrac4885]

que genial yo lo jugaba en diskette en los 90

[@Predaaator]

Animations can be compared with Splinter Cell Black list movements.

[@leothelion2001]

No wonder I was so impressed by this game back then on the super Nintendo , high quality game , and this was the first mo cap ever done in video game history

[@litjellyfish]

Leonardo di parma just want to say that this has nothing to do with mocap. That is both a totally different concept and tech. This is good old rotoscoping. A technique that started to be used for traditional animation back in the late 1939’s Still it produced great result. And even today for 2D sprite animation it can be better to use than mocap. Also to be a complete nagger ;) this was for sure not the first time this technique was used in video game. The game done before by the same designer Karateka used the same technique. Also impossible mission for C64 5 years earlier (84) used this technique for the main characters smooth animation.

[@robin6416]

the motion capture that way before the motion capture.

[@Facu10pro]

Hermoso. Que lindo ver un gran juego nacer.

[@missjen8264]

The Best Game In DOS

[@JRE1209]

can somebody reply me the full sprite sheet for the prince? if not, thats fine

[@gloriousking777]

Crazy, I would love to have a movie or a animate tv series that is really really similar to the first game atmosphere

[@MrElmuchachin]

Y así nació el parkocur 😁

[@DAVIDSQ24]

I like the smile of the real princess!

[@bigboyanimation3799]

I want to know why the SNES run this game in better graphics and the DOS computer at that time was more expansive then the consoles and dont have better graphics?

[@ElGamerdelAyer]

Hardware evolved in mere 2-3 years. The original Prince of Persia came out in 1989. The SNES port came out in 1992.

[@salllam4]

This game was way cool and hard, good graphics good story line, not like These days game

[@deadspace4755]

l love the realistic animations though, wow. Mocap(or motion capture?) is a lot better. So they recorded it and only crop the character instead of a green screen or these weird gadgets they have with face expressions? In detail if possible.

[@sada0101]

Wow you guys actually chopped off a guy to see how it would look. Kudos!

[@antoniowilson201]

The princess is very beautiful. I'd like to kiss her.

[@ViljamsVidauskis]

Firstly you have to go through all the battles and dangers!

[@Beowulf_93]

First motion capture ever.

[@elquetecontaba]

No. It's rotoscope

[@bastard920ify]

im here because of prince of persia remake

[@Midwinter2]

Somehow, the running animation didn't translate into the actual game. Did they run out of memory and have to lose some frames?

[@cygil1]

It always bothered me that the fencing in Prince of Persia is modern epee/sabre fencing, not fencing with a shamshir or talwar or anything authentically Persian. But of course you can find a guy who knows a bit of epee technique easily enough, but finding a HEMA fencer who knows shamshir technique in the 1980s would have been completely impossible.

[@avmkaya]

A baby who was born that day is 36 years old...☹️

[@nobodyjustme2208]

It would be awesome to have Prince Of Persia Maker just like Mario Maker!

[@ApexArtistX]

Any tutorial to do this ik unity

[@bluepearl9075]

RIP Tina LaDeau

[@lauta2346]

KARATEKA

[@Astro_80]

Prince of Persia > Karateka

[@MuhammadNaumaanKhanNaumanRulez]

Music 🎶

[@yasergooyandeh9991]

And least they could have use someone with a bit of parkour talent😂😂😂

[@MILHARDN1985]

Lol 1985. Year i born.