What’s the most difficult thing you did in the last year? Now stop. Before you answer, can it compare to creating a full-fledged indie game—slated to be approved on Steam—created entirely with QBASIC?

This is a console-based GUI chatbot developed using the QBASIC language when I was in 10th grade (around the year 2080 B.S. / 2023 A.D.). It’s a simple AI chatbot that learns based on the data you ...