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User created content can influence how one learns from a game in many ways. When the user creates their own content, they are going to create the content in a way they will understand the content. Also, they will apply their ideas and teachings into the content, which will be passed on to the person who receives the user created content.
User created content can often make games easier to learn from because when a user creates the content, usually they have played the game.By creating content they can improve on unclear parts of the game as well as come up with new challenges for other users.
User created content is a very instrumental concept in learning various mechanics of any given game. For example in a real time strategy, or war type game, you get to play with and make your own maps which in turn give you an idea as to what buildings or gates may do what. One of my favorite things to do in these map editors is test reactions of different elements or perhaps even modify a side to have a unit that it normally wouldn’t and implement that in the game to play with for fun. You learn concepts of balance and also why the developers of the game may have made the decision they did.