by: Ilya Vedrashko
I wrote about games build in and for MS Excel earlier, and now Gamasutra runs a very detailed feature showing some of the hidden powers of the office application:
I wrote about games build in and for MS Excel earlier, and now Gamasutra runs a very detailed feature showing some of the hidden powers of the office application:
“It’s time to learn a new 3D game engine name: Microsoft Excel.
It
is understood that Excel is an all-round office tool, but probably it
is unknown that it has a bunch of features that makes Excel a
high-class 3D graphics engine.
In this article I will
demonstrate Excel’s arithmetical facilities, the embedded rendering
subsystems (there are two of them!) and the revolutionary approach
which might just cause a paradigm shift. I hope you will discover that
Excel effectively and efficiently incorporates practicality, tons of
features, the multi-platform portability and the high performance with
the unique and futuristic 3D engine features.”
Check out Excel Music Synthesizer build on MS Excel 2007.
Original Post: http://adverlab.blogspot.com/2008/03/make-games-with-ms-excel.html
