I didn't realize people thought Fez's mechanic was original (http://pixelbubbleblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/phil-fish-a-postmortem/ …). It's not; it's from Crush (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush_%28video_game%29 …)
@nothings @hamishtodd1 Crush was widely known to devs well before 2007, though - it was even presented at the EGW.
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@nothings@hamishtodd1 Point being, it was well before Fez, regardless of whether it's where Fish got the idea (but it probably was). -
@nothings@hamishtodd1 So while it could have been independent reinvention, it is still definitely not _original_ historically.
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@cmuratori@hamishtodd1 indies probably weren't going to gdc much those days, but yeah. -
@nothings@hamishtodd1 But presumably they read the internet.
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