A strange little side quest
Zoom out from Battle Simulator: Counter Stickman for a moment and the timeline gets surprisingly deep. M.U.L.E. arrived in 1983 with multiplayer competition built around gathering resources and keeping a colony alive, an early example of resource-driven strategy play. And then there is this: Modern chess traces back to the Indian game chaturanga, recorded around the sixth century and built around pieces representing parts of an army. Grombi files that under: small game, surprisingly large backstory.
