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Applying concepts from games you made to games you're playing

GeniusDragon · 2019-03-13T03:08:14Z

So some months ago, I made a game on Unity I called "Fishing with Hand Grenades", which is exactly what it sounds like. It was meant to be silly and a bit tongue-in-cheek, and while it told only a few jokes, I like to think it told them pretty well. So fast forward to this past week, where I finally got a Nintendo Switch, and of course, Breath of the Wild. Now, I can tell that this game has no one way to do any one thing - any number of ways to kill monsters, catch animals, etc. Yet it took me all the way until Hateno Village before I finally realized: "Hey! Instead of sniping fish with arrows... I can just bomb them!" It just makes me laugh how I'd previously made an entire (albeit short) game around the exact same concept, yet I never thought to apply it until now. Granted, bowfishing is badass, but making that connection is really satisfying and puts a smile on my face. Have you ever had something like that happen, where you make a game of your own, then later come across a game where you realize you can apply what you did to what you're playing?

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