Smoking Car Productions
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Smoking Car Productions was a video game developer
founded by Jordan Mechner
to create the computer game The Last Express
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The company was located in San Francisco from 1993–1997 and at its peak had sixty full-time employees.
Video game developer
A video game developer is a software developer that creates video games. A developer may specialize in a certain video game console, such as Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3, or may develop for a variety of systems, including personal computers.Most developers also...
founded by Jordan Mechner
Jordan Mechner
Jordan Mechner is an American video game designer, screenwriter, author, and filmmaker, best known for creating the Prince of Persia video game franchise.- Life and career :Mechner was born in New York City...
to create the computer game The Last Express
The Last Express
The Last Express is a video game created by Jordan Mechner and Smoking Car Productions, published in 1997. It is an adventure game that takes place on the Orient Express, days before the start of World War I. It is noted as being one of the few video games that attempts to realistically simulate...
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The company was located in San Francisco from 1993–1997 and at its peak had sixty full-time employees.
Staff
The principals included:- Robert CookRobert Cook (programmer)Robert Cook is a co-founder of Metaweb. He was a software programmer at Brøderbund in the 1980s and was the model for one of the characters in Jordan Mechner's game Prince of Persia...
- Justin Gardner
- Donald Grahame
- Patrick Ladislav
- Noel Marrero
- Jordan MechnerJordan MechnerJordan Mechner is an American video game designer, screenwriter, author, and filmmaker, best known for creating the Prince of Persia video game franchise.- Life and career :Mechner was born in New York City...
- Mark Moran
- Benbuck Nason
- Mark Netter
- Tomi Pierce
- Nicole Tostevin