[UltimateEdge]

I agree with the sentiment that "the gaming industry has hijacked human play". The author justifies the development of his own game by the fact that "it looks like a CAD program", but I don't think that this makes the game any less immersive. Having seen a few of his dev-logs [0], I think that his goal of a 'systemic game' (if I remembered that phrase correctly) has the potential to be just as immersive.

Games with impressive graphics but no gameplay aren't known for being particularly big drains of human attention.

As another example, take the comments on the recent thread about the browser game generals.io [1]. One might say that 'it looks like a spreadsheet with conditional formatting', but it doesn't make it any less addictive, according to the commenters.

[0]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=civUb-w1CFU

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38752385