Study: Playing Minecraft could boost your creativity—with some caveats

Subjects who were explicitly <em>told</em> to be creative in <em>Minecraft</em> improved the least.

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[torp]

How does this research compare to the longitudinal study of those "brain age" apps and websites that showed no long term difference?

Interesting that this study mentions that players who were explicitly told to be creative fared the worst. Perhaps those brain age apps work the same: they scream at you 'be smart' so you fail at it

Now seriously, I do play minecraft, and I've noticed that when I explicitly set out to build something planned it ends up looking worse than when I just randomly do stuff.