I'm going to talk about
initially, what inspired my newest game I am developing called “The
Contaminos: Fallen Earth” and it's counterpart “The Contaminos:
Broken Sky.”
Roughly 18 years ago I
was in Paddy's market in Sydney, the ten-year-old me was looking for
Yu-Gi-Oh cards when I came across a rather peculiar discovery. 
The counterfeit Pokemon
games Jade and Diamond (Funnily enough Diamond would eventually
become an actual game years later in the future, with the legendary
featured in that game to be a time traveler) share an actual real
life relationship with counterfeit jade and diamonds which are worth
more than gold in real life.
To me seeing these
there at that time, a form of cognitive dissonance formed momentarily.
These looked real to me but at the same time I was aware that these
may have been from another planet.
I'm glad I didn't end
up getting them because when I asked someone in the playground about
Pokemon Jade and Diamond a friend mentioned it
involved calling a
mobile phone...and shooting monsters in the woods.
This was a real life
parallel with the creepypasta/internet ghost story Pokemon Black
(Summary: found an unmarked game cartridge. It was pokemon except you
were not capturing them, you were killing them. The game did not have
corrupted data, rather you had a corrupted soul was the twist)
In reality, the games were bootlegged versions of Ketai Denju
which indeed involve using a phone to meet creatures in the woods.
The actual version names were called Power and Speed respectively.
These hacked games were
prone to glitching out or crashing giving them a chaotic or sinister
reputation.
You can see with an
active imagination how this concept
of shooting monsters in
the woods could gradually grow like a pearl shaped over the years
into the current idea I
have been working on lately.
I never imagined years
later I would actually achieve my dream of being able to make games
like these, so high
five me from 18 years ago!
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