Starcraft (30-day challenge) Today, in a conversation about being an adult, I thought about things I enjoyed in the past, and I’m not doing anymore. You know, the kind of talk parents with young children and a mortgage have while having coffee and wiping their tears. Luckily(?) I live in a patriarchal society so, unconsciously, I’ve could keep many of my activities going on over the years, despite my new responsibilities, except for one: video games. And of all the games I used to play (no so many), the one I miss the most is Starcraft. Starcratf is an RTS, acronym for real-time strategy. It’s about smartly managing resources, building an army, and crushing your opponent as fast as possible. There’re three races available: Zergs, Protoss and Terrans. Zergs are like insects: cheap and weak but overwhelming. Protoss are the opposite, expensive and robust units. Lastly, Terrans are the human race, a kind-of balanced option. I’ve always played as a Zerg (the hive rules!). When the match starts, you have a group of units and structures placed on one side of the map, with your opponent on the other. Your first units are workers capable of mining resources: minerals and vespene gas. With the resources you get, you have to build more units and structures. Each race has its own technology tree, where units and structures have different costs and prerequisites, so you have to be smart about what you build and when. I like Starcraft because the game can be complex in terms of decision-making and very demanding because your attention can be divided into different fronts (keeping your economy thriving, protecting your bases and attacking, sometimes in multiple fronts). Maybe someday I’ll be able to play again, who knows :)