You might have looked at Flow Based Programming? It has certain characteristics that align with a game like Factorio or Oxygen Not Included etc. such as visual

You might have looked at Flow Based Programming? It has certain characteristics that align with a game like Factorio or Oxygen Not Included etc. such as visual programming, backpressure, common interfaces, local retention etc. I can imagine this being applied to distributed/cloud computing as a way to reason about high level interactions and perhaps functional/integrated testing.