If you’re going to play the game, you’ve got to learn to play it right or how games can improve your skills in the real world. There are a lot of a...
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While I'm not a gamer anymore, I consider games to be one of the most important driving forces for learning English when I was a kid.
Also, I feel like I can type faster after playing some StarCraft II. 😉
Most of my English vocabulary comes from GTA Vice City and San Andreas because the translation was hilariously terrible
Same to me :) When I played Lineage 2, there were not localised version supported Cyrillic, so I learned blind typing in early ages on both Cyrillic and Latin.
I got faster with the mouse by playing games, haha.
But mostly I learned indirectly.
Playing games led to scripting games which led to modding games which led to building games on my own.
Also back in the days, you had to know quite a bit about computers to get a game running on your PC if it was old.
For me it started from running own Lineage 2 "pirate" server and understanding of SQL and how the game data stored :)
I always admired the people who hosted private servers for games.
When I was young and played games full-time, I had neither the skills nor the money to pull that off.
I'm a strong supporter of game transference skill building. I ran a WoW guild for 8 years, which I'm convinced was a contributing factor in my successful pivot from development to management.
I often liken managing guild members to Olympic training at high attitudes: the degree to which you are working blind/constrained builds resilience such that the corporate world is a cake walk, by comparison!
I don't stop mentioning my game experience for my coworkers. Because for years of leading guild in Aion, so many different stories happened which you not always could get for years in real project, but all these stories make you stronger.
I really miss playing in a clan, mine used to be Battlefield 2 with a few coworkers and people from their circles. Strategy, value added by playing your part; rehearsing and planning, becoming a specialist. I think there’s value also in standalone games, for honing strategy and skill sets building, but it all should be tested socially, in my opinion. Great post! Made me actually want to install a few games to rekindle the old flame!
Games can and will definitely help. That's why I like playing so much. The only problem is the prices of the games. But fortunately I found royalcdkeys.com/ where I can always buy games at a good price.
Awesome post and very creative :)