King’s Cup

• Counting/mathematics
• Social skills
• Memory
• Body coordination
• Empathy
• Planning skills
• Bathroom competency

Patience

Adult games 👀 developing one handed gaming even if other games didn’t intend it to be.

Cooperation

Deception

Lack of financial responsibility.

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.

City builders, transport games, and factory games are basically system design already - you could probably disguise a CPU or circuit board design problem as OpenTTD or Prison Architect or Shapez and get gamers to design boards for you.

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.

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.

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 🙂

Empathy, Compersion

Procrastination

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/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-25099-0