Monday, July 15, 2019
Want to be more creative? Playing Minecraft can help, new study finds
Ars Technica: Minecraft is one of the most popular computer games, having sold more than 100 million copies since its release in 2011. Claims that it boosts creativity have been circulating for several years, and now there's a bit of scientific evidence to back up that claim, according to the results of a new study published in Creativity Research Journal.
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The numerous studies done on how playing video games affects the brain are an important step in defining the future of not only just games and technology, but the way society interacts with them as a whole. For instance, the development of what is acceptable and what isn't throughout many of the controversies about what certain games depicted, leading to lawsuits and the development of the rating system. Video games used to be scorned and now they're becoming more and more integrated into the modern world, with esports teams and the like rapidly growing in popularity. However, I think that while games are a fairly new media, they act much like other activities might. Playing Minecraft might increase your creativity as much as reading an interesting or inspiring book might. So as much as these studies on games might seem to be important, I don't in particular think that they are too necessary for discovering anything new, but presenting video games in a way so that the public can accept them.
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