Are there any games like that? As far as I know nothing ever became of that Minecraft-sequel/Elite-Clone that featured a fictional CPU and most programming game

Are there any games like that? As far as I know nothing ever became of that Minecraft-sequel/Elite-Clone that featured a fictional CPU and most programming games are rather educational and/or feature programming combat AIs... Although it would be interesting how one could program a narrative into that, if the player starts out without any prior programming knowledge. First task is simple memory access, then looping is required etc.