Can you imagine building an RPG game with Microsoft Excel?
Cary Walkin did and it’s available for download!
This is nothing short of impressive:
Arena.Xlsm
Features include:
- Random enemies: Over 2000 possible enemies with different AI abilities.
- Random items: 39 item modifiers result in over 1000 possible item combinations and attributes.
- An interesting story with 4 different endings depending on how the player has played the game.
- 8 boss encounters, each with their own tactics.
- 9 pre-programmed arenas followed by procedurally generated maps. Each play-through has its own challenges.
- 31 Spells. There are many different strategies for success.
- 20 Unique items. Unique items have special properties and can only drop from specific enemies.
- 39 Achievements.
- This is all in a Microsoft Excel workbook.
Did I mention this is all done in Microsoft Excel?
Walkin has even included a full wiki.
Do you have Microsoft Excel? Download it here!
Joshua says
I’m wondering if this would work on LibreOffice (Ubuntu). I’ll have to try it. Even if it doesn’t work, it looks awesome!
Eric Dye says
I tried it with Numbers and it didn’t work, and I saw a comment somewhere else that said it didn’t work on LibreOffice. 🙁