A game that lets players to experience software development is a great method of teaching programming and coding concepts such as loops and conditional statements. Zachtronics Shenzhen I/O is a game that accomplishes this. It puts players in the shoes of angry engineers who work for a dull firm and have to create computer chips manually. They are given increasingly complex circuits to design, beginning by making lights flash in a certain pattern.
The game’s interface is very similar to that found in browsers, and it helps students learn scripting. Another great example is Screeps which combines JavaScript programming with massively multiplayer online gameplay to build assessing virtual data room providers self-sustaining colonies. Both games are excellent at teaching basic concepts, and slowly introducing other players.