I am not a gamer (Sudoku on my phone is the furthest I go), but was wondering if there are any games for developers that you are aware, and play. For example, games in which you program a bot that can make strategic decisions while you are away. Or games that are purely API-based? Does anything like it even exists?
There is a game called screeps. It's an MMO sandbox game directly targeting developers. You have creeps that you can control programmatically via js or web assembly. They describe it as the following:
"Screeps is a massive multiplayer online real-time strategy game. Each player can create their own colony in a single persistent world shared by all the players. Such a colony can mine resources, build units, conquer territory. As you conquer more territory, your influence in the game world grows, as well as your abilities to expand your footprint. However, it requires a lot of effort on your part, since multiple players may aim at the same territory."
Thanks! It looks exactly was what I was looking for!