<story><title>TIS-100: the Programming Game You Never Asked For</title><url>http://blog.codinghorror.com/heres-the-programming-game-you-never-asked-for/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SeanDav</author><text>I must be an exception (or a lousy programmer) because I do not particularly enjoy games that require programming to play, I write programs for fun (and programming for me is fun) and I play games for fun but have not found a game that appeals to me, that combines the two.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>electroly</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve played a few hours of TIS-100 (Jeff is super late to the party).  There&amp;#x27;s a line between &amp;quot;this is a fun intellectual puzzle&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;this is actually just work&amp;quot; and TIS-100 crosses that line for me.  I really enjoyed SpaceChem and Infinifactory (the two Zachtronics games that preceded TIS-100) and they are on the good side of the line.  Very enjoyable puzzle games, and &lt;i&gt;vastly&lt;/i&gt; better than any of the games mentioned in the article.</text></comment>
<story><title>TIS-100: the Programming Game You Never Asked For</title><url>http://blog.codinghorror.com/heres-the-programming-game-you-never-asked-for/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SeanDav</author><text>I must be an exception (or a lousy programmer) because I do not particularly enjoy games that require programming to play, I write programs for fun (and programming for me is fun) and I play games for fun but have not found a game that appeals to me, that combines the two.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>I fall in the same camp as you. I have played TIS and SpaceChem, though not to completion. After banging my head against one problem all night long, I decided I&amp;#x27;d have more fun just playing HotS or some other game instead.&lt;p&gt;The dopamine rush from solving a hard problem is pretty intense, but not worth the hours of frustration after more hours of frustration at my job.</text></comment>