A strange little side quest
Here is a rabbit hole for the next loading screen in Desolate Isle: Survival: Modern chess traces back to the Indian game chaturanga, recorded around the sixth century and built around pieces representing parts of an army. The broader history adds one more wrinkle. The Oregon Trail mixed travel, supplies, risk and survival decisions decades before resource-management systems became common in mainstream games. It is a good reminder that simple game mechanics can carry a surprising amount of history.
