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Understanding the Great Video Game Recession. Or Not.

The Bottom Feeder

Lots of studio closures. That time will be 2040. They just like to play games. If you understandably haven't been paying attention, here's what has been happening in the video game business. There have been lots of layoffs lately. It's still just a tiny portion of a gigantic industry, but the disaster curve is ramping up fast.

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Creating a STOS Text Adventure: Adding Objects and Inventory

Retro Game Coders

This is one of the reasons the Visual Studio Code extension is so helpful, because you can simply put in a @name and after tokenization the name will be converted to a line number. 2010 rem GET OBJECT 2011 ofound=0 2012 for ob=1 to 100 2013 rem. Adding to the Room Descriptions. 10097 return. " : end.

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