King’s Cup
- Counting/mathematics
- Social skills
- Memory
- Body coordination
- Empathy
- Planning skills
- Bathroom competency
Adult games 👀 developing one handed gaming even if other games didn’t intend it to be.
Patience
Procrastination
Cooperation
City builders, transport games, and factory games are basically “System Design” work already - you could probably disguise a CPU or circuit board design problem as an OpenTTD or Prison Architect or Shapez scenario, and get gamers to design boards for you.
Honestly? The same things.
Communication skills, spatial reasoning, visualization, critical thinking, problem solving, reaction time, hand-eye coordination.
Things they should also be teaching are empathy, compersion (as someone else said), kindness, introspection, self-awareness.
Empathy, Compersion
Oh man compersion would be huge. So many people don’t even know the word exists, never mind what it means.
My keyboard threw a hissy fit
*compassion?
Nope. Compersion
*cumpassion?
Same thing
Campassion is for people really into cameras and cumpassion is for people really into…
Depends on what you’re talking about, and context.
Physical games? Definitely the relevant physical strengths if done at a semi-professional enough level, so muscles etc. Team games often also teach you some coordination, leading and organization skills.
For board games, planning, adaptation, even critical thinking. Social interaction skills maybe, too.
Postal 2 teaches you how to collect signatures for a petition 😁
Shogun 2 got me to read the Art of War and it totally helped me kick people’s asses online 🙂
I play Overwatch 2 to keep my processing speed up (one of the best predictors of long term mental health into old age).
I got my boomer father an xbox for the same reason.
Deception
With RTS games. Planning, allocating scarce resources efficiently, patience, responsibility and self criticism, strategic thinking, deductive reasoning, multitasking.
There’s been studies:
https://www.wired.com/story/starcraft-cognitive-abilities/
https://www.psypost.org/enhanced-brain-connectivity-observed-in-frequent-starcraft-ii-players/
Common sense?
I’m comparatively old, but I have ridiculously fast reactions due to excessively playing all the DiRT - Rally games obsessively for years
Unfortunately it means I react often before something happens on the road irl 😅
