This question is moreso aimed for the creative types here but what’s a game / genre / etc that had something you always took for granted, until you tried doing something similar yourself?

Can be music, an art style, a game mechanic, or just something more general like story beats or unique spins for genres

Personally I never realized how much work it took to balance items in a rogue like game to keep them all fun and relevant without having players just end up going for the same 2 or 3 items every single run

There’s also the honorable mention of back when I started game dev like 4-5 years back and couldn’t figure out for the life of me how to do basic stuff like keeping save files at a reasonable storage cap (and just generally optimizing my code to not run like shit lmaooo)