A game that allows players to experience software development is a great method to teach coding and programming concepts like loops and conditional statements. Games that allow this include Zachtronics’ Shenzhen I/O, which puts players in the shoes of dissatisfied engineers working at an uninteresting chip company and have to design computer chips by hand. They are provided with increasingly challenging circuits to create, starting with making lights blink according to a certain pattern.
The interface of the game looks very similar to the developer tools found in browsers and also teaches scripting. Another excellent example is Screeps, which blends JavaScript programming with massively multiplayer online gameplay to build self-sustaining colonies. Both games excel in teaching fundamental concepts and slowly introducing others.