I remember a version of Doom where each mob represented a process; believe shooting them with different weapons sent different signals.
https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/
There's something about a Sourceforge link that makes me feel things.
I love it. My filesystem is a dungeon anyways, lets fill it with enemies to fight.
Extremely clever concept
It is funny how our industry struggles with effort affordable user interface toolkit.
Aside of that: cool game