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Factorio. Factorio doesn’t exactly have code. However, it’s very much a game about systems, and how to efficiently build and manage them. In fact, Shopify exp
by heliophobicdude 4y ago
Factorio.
Factorio doesn’t exactly have code. However, it’s very much a game about systems, and how to efficiently build and manage them.
In fact, Shopify expensed the game for their employees [1]
1: https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1294330081452666882 https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1294330081452666882
- bemmu 4y agoWhenever I play this, for days afterwards I’m in a state of mind looking for anything in my life to automate.
- falcolas 4y agoI think of Factorio as a circuit board designing game more than programming. Still fun as heck though.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoDunno, I think it captures several of the skills needed in programming, not the actual writing code, but both refactoring and optimization are translated fairly accurately.
- alophawen 4y agoMeh, lol. From my spaghetti factory you would never have guessed i was a software dev by day.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoThat's exploratory programming for you.
- mFixman 4y agoI had a revelation when I realised the problems I had when building a base in Factorio were basically the same I had when programming, just visualised in a more intuitive way. Translating the solutions of my Factorio problems into my real world problems worked like a charm.