Could you expand on the hypothetical? What would you program? In particular (asking anyone, not just you) what would satisfy the same "needs" as these coding s

Could you expand on the hypothetical? What would you program? In particular (asking anyone, not just you) what would satisfy the same "needs" as these coding strategy games? Programming here is not an end in itself, but a means to encode your tactics and strategy, that you can then observe facing the "real world".