The Baby Zergling (& The Scientific American)
Fantastic/hilarious commentary from 3:32, by HuskyStarcraft, chronicling the life of a single zergling across an episode of that beautifully drawn epic sci-fi game of extraterrestrial, interspecies realtime battle strategy.
Starcraft has been likened to realtime, continuously variable Chess or Go, and I think the comparison isn’t as ridiculous as it might at first seem. The strategy and skill really does seem to run pretty deep, which I guess is part of what gives it the scope to be one of the world’s most popular eSports, and by some accounts the national sport of Korea!
Relatedly, Starcraft was recently mentioned in this interesting Scientific American article, hinting at the types of cognitive loading and development games such as Starcraft can help develop (and illuminate for research purposes).
