A strange little side quest
Professional Gun Customizer may feel immediate, but the ideas around action games have been evolving for a very long time. Doom changed game design and distribution in 1993 by separating its engine from content and spreading widely through shareware. And the history keeps stacking up: The Oregon Trail mixed travel, supplies, risk and survival decisions decades before resource-management systems became common in mainstream games. That history is one reason familiar mechanics can still feel new when they are recombined well.
