When I was only slightly older, I was part of an RPG maker community. Skills I acquired there regarding image editing/manipulation, writing reviews, looking out for things that seem unnaturally regular, social communication, and whatnot still serve me today. It was a very creative place to be. There was a screenshot thread in the forum and almost every day I would check it out for new posts, reading people's reviews and write some myself. I remember spending hours and hours making a faceset too. Trying to fit those emotions onto the 48x48 pixels.

I would recommend such a community, but I am only aware of one bigger community like that surviving (multimediaxis forum[1], which could be great) and my old community does no longer exist, which saddens me to this day.

[1]: https://www.multimediaxis.de/forum.php