Nobody’s going to believe this, but here we go:
When i created stacktrace, my LD33 entry, i knew it was inspired by something i had already seen some time ago. But i didn’t know what at the time.
Just a random game about coding in assembly, that i had seen somewhere sometime ago. It was TIS-100
TIS-100 sat in my mind quietly after i watched a review of it. And i forgot about it. During LD i had remembered that there was a game about coding in assembly, so i thought why not have a go at creating something simmilar?
Well, turns out it is a bit too simmilar. Mechanic-wise that is. They both need the player to read documentation first, both machines spew out random data etc.
And, trust me that was NOT intentional. Human subconsciousness can be a bitch sometimes. And this time it was.
Still, have fun if you want to play it (here), just like i did creating stacktrace. Hopefully it is not considered plagiarism.
Check out the ‘original’, TIS-100 by Zachtronics here: http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/
I’m sorry for stealing your idea, even though i did not know about it at the time.