>>113647104No, I'm a game designer, at the time I worked for a studio that made casual games.
Anyway, my bosses asked me if I knew anything about match-3 games like candy crush, we had not made a game of that genre until then. So I said "yeah, sure" but I was dumb and based the entire design document off of stuff I learned from Frozen Fever and never bothered to even try Candy Crush.
A couple of week after we had a meeting with a client and an assistant development team (In total we were like 12 people), and several questions arise regarding the mechanics, and they ended up asking me a lot of times about what was the reference for all this stuff, and the answer every time was Frozen, and we had a big TV in the meeting room and I had to surf a bunch of Frozen Free Fall videos, while scrolling though a lot of Frozen related videos, to show the mechanics.
Surprisingly enough we ended making the game but I was asked to remove the characters that reacted to your movements and to add a couple a specific mechanic from Candy crush.
We had a ton of laughs while scrolling through the videos but I wanted to kill myself internally.