A strange little side quest
Garden TD may feel immediate, but the ideas around strategy games have been evolving for a very long time. Modern chess traces back to the Indian game chaturanga, recorded around the sixth century and built around pieces representing parts of an army. And the history keeps stacking up: Pong was field-tested in California bars in 1972 and helped launch the modern arcade-game era. The details change, but the appeal of learning a system and trying again is remarkably persistent.
