A game that lets players to experience the process of software development is an excellent method to teach programming and coding concepts such as loops and conditional statements. Games that can do this include Zachtronics Shenzhen I/O which puts players in the shoes of dissatisfied engineers working at an ordinary chip manufacturer and must design computer chips by hand. They are provided with increasingly challenging circuits to design, beginning with the making lights flash in a particular next pattern.
The game’s interface is very similar to that found in browsers, and it also teaches scripting. Screeps is another excellent example, which blends JavaScript code with massively multiplayer online gaming in order to create self sustaining colonies. Both games are excellent at teaching basic concepts, and gradually introducing other players.