[heliophobicdude]

Factorio.

Factorio doesn’t exactly have code. However, it’s very much a game about systems, and how to efficiently build and manage them.

In fact, Shopify expensed the game for their employees [1]

1: https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1294330081452666882

[mFixman]

I had a revelation when I realised the problems I had when building a base in Factorio were basically the same I had when programming, just visualised in a more intuitive way.

Translating the solutions of my Factorio problems into my real world problems worked like a charm.

[bemmu]

Whenever I play this, for days afterwards I’m in a state of mind looking for anything in my life to automate.

[falcolas]

I think of Factorio as a circuit board designing game more than programming. Still fun as heck though.

[marginalia_nu]

Dunno, I think it captures several of the skills needed in programming, not the actual writing code, but both refactoring and optimization are translated fairly accurately.

[alophawen]

Meh, lol. From my spaghetti factory you would never have guessed i was a software dev by day.

[marginalia_nu]

That's exploratory programming for you.