My Strange Obsession With (Mobile) Game Trailers

I've been in a bit of a NimbleBit Games phase again, as I mentioned a while ago I've been playing quite a bit of Pocket Trains recently.

I've been dabbling a little bit with Tiny Tower Classic as well, and I recently finished a project that I worked on since I first got the game, and I have since moved on to another one. This project, as well as kind of the one on Pocket Trains, reminded me of a silly obsession I had as a kid with the game trailers, and one that has not fully went away.

I have no idea why exactly, I guess there isn't any way you can really explain why a kid thinks what he thinks, but ever since I started playing the games I've been obsessed with the trailers of the game and trying to recreate them as best as I could.

One of my most specific favourites was the Tiny Tower - 2011 iPhone Game of the Year! trailer that NimbleBit uploaded to their channel. I loved this trailer so much, and the specific tower featured in it, that I recreated it fully as far back as 2014 at least, and it was one of the first things I did in Tiny Tower Classic.

The floors are the exact same in the same order, the elevator is the same, and I even dressed up the bitizens in the same way as the original video.

This same sort of thing has also affected me in a bunch of other games, both ones made by NimbleBit and not. From laying out a lot of my floors in Tiny Tower Vegas in a weird mix of ones from the trailer and from my original tower, to how I painted my fleet in Pocket Planes, to how I have my railroads set up in Pocket Trains.

As I said, this also applied to other mobile games. I vividly remember the one for Labyrinth 2 by IllusionLabs, where I especially loved the levels featured in it.

I even got it with just official material in general, you could even extend that to how obsessed I was with the buildings in the Minecraft Handbooks, which I have recreated multiple times throughout my years playing the game, especially that house and its exterior from the Construction book.

Maybe this comes from a feeling that I have to make things as similar to their "official" versions as possible? Or perhaps just from wanting to mimic the things I see in general, I mean I've also recreated a bunch of things in all these games (and more) that I got from other videos.

In the end I'll never know for sure, but regardless, I find this small quirk of mine to be extremely silly, and I still somewhat embrace it to this day, purely since it often brings me motivation and leads me to experiment outside of the base material sometimes! Silly me.