Editing Programming game (section)

{{Short description|Video game genre}}
{{Main category|Programming games}}

A '''programming game''' is a [[video game]] that incorporates elements of [[computer programming]], enabling the player to direct otherwise autonomous units within the game to follow commands in a [[domain-specific programming language]], often represented as a [[visual language]] to simplify the programming metaphor. Programming games broadly fall into two areas: single-player games where the programming elements either make up part of or the whole of a [[puzzle game]], and multiplayer games where the player's automated program is pitted against other players' programs.