If you love puzzle games that teach a little programming and automation - If Red Then Stop looks like your next visit. A demo with Native Linux support has just been released.
Coming from the indie team Kerzoven from Switzerland, they previously made Of Life and Land in 2025, a city builder paired with a rich nature simulation. Now they're trying something a little different, inspired by the founder's frustration with a new traffic light system on his commute that was causing major problems.
Here you will become an engineer of sorts while you learn the fundamentals of state machines in automation, as you attempt to optimize traffic and not smash vehicles into each other. Then break it all as you try to optimize it further and watch a bit of chaos unfold.
See the trailer below:
Direct Link
- Solve realistic traffic challenges to understand how state machines work in the real world.
- Use a high-level state automation concept instead of functional programming.
- Learn a programming language that's used in the automation industry.
- Watch people go nuts from your flawed code. Fix it and earn their eternal gratitude.
See more from me
You can also find comments for this article on social media: 
Watch people go nuts from your flawed code. Fix it and earn their eternal gratitudeI'm REALLY GOOD at the first part. The second part, though… meh. hehehe
Patreon
PayPal