"The problem we found in the game developer world," explains Strang, "is that if you're a game developer, it's not easy to create the same kind of social mechanics and backend functionality that you would find on the web, like on Facebook or another social network," he says.
A deeper sign of the city's resilience can be found in the national developers and retailers now coming to town as first-time investors.
Because vacant land is hard to find in the corridor, developers have been seeking out industrial buildings for renovation to offices.
Developer Jesse Farmer finds activity in the developer forum falling 27% over the past two months.
In the past, I've found in speaking to the developers behind these kinds of games (Massive Damage and Grey Area, specifically), that people generally still play these at home or in the office, at stationary places rather than in an exploratory fashion by wandering the world.
In the past year, the council's resolution service, which arbitrates between developers and buyers, found in favour of the buyer in 69% of cases.
While in days gone by purpose-built student accommodation would simply have been on-campus halls provided by the university, now it is now more often found in blocks bought by private developers and owned by shareholders.
As a result, atomic workflows can be searched and found in these repositories enabling workflow developers to embed atomic workflows with the required functionality in meta-workflows.
