A strange little side quest
Here is a rabbit hole for the next loading screen in Card Hearts: The Oregon Trail mixed travel, supplies, risk and survival decisions decades before resource-management systems became common in mainstream games. Another piece of context lands nicely beside it: Modern chess traces back to the Indian game chaturanga, recorded around the sixth century and built around pieces representing parts of an army. That history is one reason familiar mechanics can still feel new when they are recombined well.
