I managed to get my girlfriend to play her first game of starcraft yesterday.
It was one of the most frustrating, and yet happiest days of my life :P
It took her well over 5 minutes to fully understand the most basic things like selecting probes (left click + drag) and sending them to the mineral line (right click). FIVE MINUTES....
She kept selecting them all then left clicking (deselecting) on the mineral line... i was trying so hard not to explode as then she would give up and never play again.
Patience Peter... patience. I kept supporting her as she did good things, and tried to gloss over mistakes.
She would keep building pylons everytime that i told her to build probes.
Surprisingly once we were past that, she got the shift clicking - of building multiple buildings really easily. Along with shift deselecting units. She also picked up hotkeying buildings fairly fast too.
Considering she had no idea what any of the buildings did she did rather well.
She managed to win 2 out of 3 games versus 'very easy' computers. (15k minerals banked) but 2 base allins (at 30 min marks)!
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