Every second day of October Ada Lovelace Day is celebrated - to commemorate the famous English mathematician of the XIX century, and the first programmer in the world.
To mark this occasion, we rounded up a party of games that are not only fun to play, but can teach you to think like a true engineer and feel like a tech wizard!
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'Quadrilateral Cowboy', it's a puzzle heist game where you use telnet commands to remotely control devices (ex. moving a drone around with turtle graphics-like commands). Not strictly programming, at most you make short scripts, but I imagine it will still interest you.
Does not appear to currently be on sale though, but it has been in a few bundles (Like the 'Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality' on itch.io) before so you may already own it.
You may also want to take a look at some of Introversion Softwares games, especially their prototypes like Megaprocessor & Spacebots
Thanks! I actually played Quadrilateral Cowboy but never got around to finishing it — I should do that. I also enjoyed Uplink, Darwinia etc. but hadn’t heard of Megaprocessor & Spacebots.
Turing Complete is well worth checking out despite some flaws by the way.
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Any recommendations for good programming-like games other than Zachtronics games and Human Resource Machine/7 Billion Humans? (Played them.) Doesn’t need to be actual code, e.g. something like Factorio would also be good.