One More Year by EvoGenGames

made by EvoGenGames for LD 44 (COMPO)

I had no time to get back into unity so I used my work skills to create a game in Excel and VBA. In this game you need to decide how you'll spend your precious time during a year. One perk of using excel is you get the graphs for free which enabled me to visualize the players progress.

Important: To play this game you'll need to download it, open it in Excel and allow macro's to be run.

Link	https://www.dropbox.com/s/tld6h651e7560ev/OneMoreYear.xlsm?dl=0
Link	https://www.dropbox.com/s/tld6h651e7560ev/OneMoreYear.xlsm?dl=0
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/one-more-year

Ratings

Overall	68^th	3.783⭐	25🧑‍⚖️
Fun	94^th	3.609⭐	25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	3^th	4.389⭐	29🧑‍⚖️
Theme	133^th	3.63⭐	25🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	357^th	2.976⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Humor	96^th	3.364⭐	24🧑‍⚖️
Mood	334^th	2.881⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Given		25🗳️	18🗨️

Feedback

Theoriok

29. Apr 2019 · 07:05 UTC

I died of physical pain. I love it!

Evolus

29. Apr 2019 · 09:01 UTC

Really liked the excel idea :)

Arthur Baars

29. Apr 2019 · 09:20 UTC

Really unique idea :) Good job!

kemp

29. Apr 2019 · 09:22 UTC

fantastic game, hint: copy the stats provided in the screenshot if you want to survive a year. + works in excel on macOS

Kevin Liu

30. Apr 2019 · 09:01 UTC

Gotta say, props on using Excel VBA to make a game! Brings me back memories of my old job, hahaha!

Vectrex28

30. Apr 2019 · 09:03 UTC

This gets points just for being a game on M I C R O S O F T E X C E L!!!
I love it!

thetatautau

30. Apr 2019 · 09:48 UTC

Original idea, but sadly it requires a $100 software to play. No thanks.

gimblll

30. Apr 2019 · 10:08 UTC

I can't unfortunately play it as I have no Excel, but I want to give you a million zillion points for making a game in Excel! :)

PurpledArtFrog

30. Apr 2019 · 11:32 UTC

Great idea

Daviscartes

30. Apr 2019 · 14:47 UTC

I like the idea pretty much! Both using excel and the theme(life sim)

JofersGames

01. May 2019 · 15:55 UTC

"To play this game you’ll need to download it, open it in Excel" 5/5 :D

Sockyman

01. May 2019 · 15:58 UTC

Very innovative, I love the idea! I died of physical pain repeatedly changing values slightly until I finally just survived with a score of 2.51. One issue is that it is extremely finicky, changing one value by 0.5 adjusts the whole outcome by a considerable amount. Overall good idea.

mrspeaker

01. May 2019 · 16:01 UTC

Sadly doesn't work in LibreCalc (I'm trying to figure out the vb errors it's throwing - but my excel skills are low ;) )... Great idea though!

Evgeniya Zapolnova

01. May 2019 · 16:38 UTC

I like it! It's the best Excel game I saw (It is first one, but it's not important) Balance for me is one of most difficult challenges (programming is on the first place), So, I enjoyed. And I died of physical pain :)

DrLizard

01. May 2019 · 16:46 UTC

Death caused by mental pain. Day 359.
Its interesting approach, reminded mme of old text games.

michaelsonbritt

01. May 2019 · 22:29 UTC

Dude, you are getting maximum scores from me, hands down. This is just so genius, though I'll admit to being an excel geek to begin with. It's what games jams should be all about, unexpected, outside-the-box experiences that make you think and see the world in a new light.

I did manage to reach 365 days finally. Looks like I'm not spending nearly enough hours per day working out in real life!!