(Image credit: Left: BioWare. Right: Christoffer Bodegård)

With the closure of RPG standby BioWare, we've been consulting the PC Gamer rolodex and reaching out to developers for their thoughts and reflections on the legendary studio. Lead SEO editor Lauren Morton spoke to 16 devs who joined this industry because of BioWare games .

I was happy to hear back from Christoffer Bodegård, developer of our current RPG of the year frontrunner, Esoteric Ebb , on what BioWare meant to him.

"Any layoff news hits the gamedev scene like a sucker punch on the ear. But there's something extra awful when an institutional staple of the artform gets torn down like this.

"When I was six years old, my dad brought home a copy of MDK2. We took turns playing that game over a year, and it made for some of my fondest early gaming memories. Then, in high school, Dragon Age: Origins sparked a lifelong obsession with CRPGs. A genre which, if you look at any BEST OF ALL TIME lists, shows you many 'BIOWARE' logos.…