Pokemon Snap
A Nintendo game about photographing Pokemon.
Where Pokemon Snap comes up1 episode or test
- Line up crosshair with target
- Object: a gun
- Targets: enemies
- Line up crosshair with target
- Object: a camera
- Targets: Pokemon
Same core, new object: a whole new game
From Pokemon Snap page note
What was said about Pokemon Snap
Pokemon Snap swaps the gun for a camera in a first-person shooter. A first-person shooter is about lining up a crosshair with a target, and for most of gaming's history that meant guns and enemies. Changing the object to a camera produced Pokemon Snap.
PowerWash Simulator is cited as the same move, with a pressure washer in place of the gun. The advice is to boil a genre down to its DNA and then build outwards: "boil the genre down to the absolute DNA - and then build outwards from there."
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Swap the gun for a camera in a first-person shooter and you get Pokemon Snap.
Pokemon Snap swaps the gun for a camera in a first-person shooter. A first-person shooter is about lining up a crosshair with a target, and for most of gaming's history that meant guns and enemies. Changing the object to a camera produced Pokemon Snap.
PowerWash Simulator is cited as the same move, with a pressure washer in place of the gun. The advice is to boil a genre down to its DNA and then build outwards: "boil the genre down to the absolute DNA - and then build outwards from there."
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