I believe in the power of YES... concerning, if you want to take away something from everything, you can! Recently, I treated myself with the indie game Papers, please!, which in its core is about being in a boarder checkpoint, checking papers of travelers and potentially finding forgeries.
So, what does this have to do with my professional career as a software developer? Easy, doing code reviews, comparing files and finding mistakes in them ๐๐!
What games do you feel let you practice some handy skill, not only speaking of professional situations and not only thinking of video games? ๐ญ
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Top comments (5)
I feel like city builder games really make you think more about planning for the future, there is so much to consider - in software and in cities ๐๏ธ
Very true. Every complex system needs some kind of plan or at least a direction or a goal to strive for! ๐
I think Real Time Strategy (RTS) games can make you a better developer. They increase your problem solving skills because you need to think of strategies to overcome different problems.
Good point! From my experience with Yousician I can just confirm that ๐
Factorio
The experience is much like programming: designing, building, debugging, and improving performance.