A strange little side quest
There is a neat bit of history hiding behind the kind of play you find in Mila's Magic Shop. Modern chess traces back to the Indian game chaturanga, recorded around the sixth century and built around pieces representing parts of an army. That old idea kept changing rather than disappearing. 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. That long chain of experiments is part of why strategy games still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.
