[chrbr]

Huh, I had an idea recently to make an API-only game like that. Would let people build their own tools/GUIs and go as crazy as they'd like with building their own AI to control their empire. Just feels extremely niche, even if it scratches my own gameplay itch.

[Jenk]

I'm concerned that such a game would be so much more rewarding to me as a developer than my actual software development job is, that I would become miserable at work!

[cyanydeez]

So just meta it, make it your programming simulator to farming simulator.

Now you can program in your program while you're programing your program to simulate programming programs against other programmers!

[frakkingcylons]

It’s starting to happen to me.

[fkyoureadthedoc]

Something like this? https://spacetraders.io/

[chrbr]

Yep, that's exactly what sparked the idea.