A taxpayer-funded video game aimed at educating young New Zealanders interested in a career in music management has “fallen completely flat”, according to some in the industry. (via Taxpayer-funded video game ‘falls flat’ - Story - Entertainment - 3 News) Probably the most embarrassing game I have ever seen, reminds me of a very poor cousin to the old living books grandma and me games from the 90’s. Cannot believe NZ on Air wasted $280,000 of our $ on this!!
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A taxpayer-funded video game aimed at educating young New Zealanders interested in a career in music management has “fallen completely flat”, according to some in the industry. (via Taxpayer-funded video game ‘falls flat’ - Story - Entertainment - 3 News)

Probably the most embarrassing game I have ever seen, reminds me of a very poor cousin to the old living books grandma and me games from the 90’s.

Cannot believe NZ on Air wasted $280,000 of our $ on this!!

Source: 3news.co.nz

The game, called Arena.Xlsm, can be downloaded here. It works with Excel 2007 and 2010 but hasn’t been tested with Excel 2013 (it should work though). Unfortunately, like all things wonderful about Excel, Arena.Xlsm won’t work on the Mac version of Excel. Gameplay includes: 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. 4 pre-programmed arenas followed by procedurally generated arenas. Each play-through has its own challenges. 31 Spells. There are many different strategies for success. 15 Unique items. Unique items have special properties and can only drop from specific enemies. 36 Achievements. This is all in a Microsoft Excel workbook. (via Awesome Accountant Made an Entire RPG Game Inside Microsoft Excel)
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The game, called Arena.Xlsm, can be downloaded here. It works with Excel 2007 and 2010 but hasn’t been tested with Excel 2013 (it should work though). Unfortunately, like all things wonderful about Excel, Arena.Xlsm won’t work on the Mac version of Excel. Gameplay includes:

  • 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.
  • 4 pre-programmed arenas followed by procedurally generated arenas. Each play-through has its own challenges.
  • 31 Spells. There are many different strategies for success.
  • 15 Unique items. Unique items have special properties and can only drop from specific enemies.
  • 36 Achievements.
  • This is all in a Microsoft Excel workbook.

(via Awesome Accountant Made an Entire RPG Game Inside Microsoft Excel)

Source: Gizmodo

prosthetic knowledge: Acid Defender

prostheticknowledge:

Music game experiment using a HTML5 and Web Audio API by Patrick Borgeat.

This is a web experiment, merging music-making with gameplay. All sounds (except for the snare and kick drum) are synthesized in the web browser and all sounds are sequenced in the web browser.

You can either play…

(via gamefreaksnz)

Source: cappel-nord.de