A game that lets players experience software development could be an excellent way to introduce programming concepts and concepts in coding, such as loops and conditional statements. Zachtronics Shenzhen I/O is a game that accomplishes this. It puts players in the shoes of unhappy engineers working for a non-existent company and must build computer chips manually. The circuits they have to create become more complicated beginning with making the lights flash in a specific pattern.
The interface in the game appears very similar to web browser’s developer tools and also teaches scripting. Screeps is a different excellent example, which is a game that combines JavaScript code with massively multi-player online gameplay to build self-sustaining colonies. Both games are excellent at teaching basic concepts and slowly introducing new players.