Does playing online games (e.g Habbo) enhance your creative skills (design etc)?

[Homosexual]

From Habbo; I've learned that people don't like big change, aesthetically or otherwise. Look at the arguments about old vs new Habbo, etcetera. Also, recolours aren't good enough.

[Conservative,]

Creatively, I haven't been helped by any games. I tried to do an alt once and got bored after about 5 minutes. I'm not an artistic person.

However I am much better at music editing than my friends and I think that stems from habbo and DJing. If I hadn't joined habbo I wouldn't be as interested in music as I am, nor would I have tried making my own jingles etc.

I've learnt management and leadership skills, as well as how to deal with certain situations etc. and also been able to develop my political ideas on fansites. So I guess you could say games like habbo do help, but I think habbo would be one of the only ones. When I played RS I never joined a forum - I didn't need to really. If I had stuck with RS I wouldn't have DJed or anything. So yeah..

[Alex3213]

Creative skills have never been my forte, never will be- so obviously my message here is that creative skills have not helped. However, I feel that Habbo & Habbox have helped me a fair bit, for example my writing has become more sophisticated and structured, this leads on to explaining your ideas and making sure they are clear... hmm, maybe that's still something I need to work on! I've been able to give feedback (maybe I'm still Mr. Pessimist but y'know) and try and lead a team, the "try" is still not there 'cos I'm not sure if I've succeeded yet.

[Fiendly]

It depends.
If you're into that stuff then no ~ But if you're playing games and you want to do fansites for the websites then yes!

If you're willing to learn it then it can.
For instance, I started web development (HTML+CSS) back in 2006. This improves with time I guess and it depends on your involvement.

Great topic discussion!

[Special-1k]

I agree with this. When I DJed for the site I actually learned a lot.

[Gibs960]

I've learned a lot of stuff from Habbox and Habbo a bit, but as to the person who said they've matured on Habbox but I don't think I have because I try and "mature" and you just get slapped back down so you feel like a 5 year old.

[dbgtz]

I've learned a lot of stuff from Habbox and Habbo a bit, but as to the person who said they've matured on Habbox but I don't think I have because I try and "mature" and you just get slapped back down so you feel like a 5 year old.

You can't force maturity.

Anyway I think some can. Habbo used help with creativity I think when all the furni wasn't literally handed to you on a plate, and some competitions used to require skills of some sorts whether it is graphics, creative writing or the ability to do proper challenging quests. Nowadays it's not because it's all there and the competitions are weak.

Runescape taught me a little on money management and the ability to trade if you will.

In the end it depends on the games and the controls. I.E. I think hilly referenced that FPS help with hand eye co ordination, I imagine that's more with mouses as it takes a much steadier hand.