A strange little side quest
Here is a rabbit hole for the next loading screen in Winter Bubble: Arthur Wynne published a diamond-shaped 'Word-Cross' in the New York World on December 21, 1913; the name later shifted to 'Cross-Word' and then 'crossword'. And the history keeps stacking up: Doom changed game design and distribution in 1993 by separating its engine from content and spreading widely through shareware. That long chain of experiments is part of why puzzles still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.
