It’s rare to see such a project, and it’s especially great that it works well – despite its simplicity. How to push Fallout game in Excel.
John Gábor
26.04.2024 – Fallout – but in Excel is a post-apocalyptic RPG that you can actually play in the spreadsheet. The relatively robust mix of mission and combat is more than unusual in this medium, but when else would you come up with a similar crazy idea, when the franchise is experiencing a new renaissance due to the hit series on Amazon Prime. But a Fallout-inspired post-apocalyptic getaway in Excel is a cool, never-before-seen idea.
How does Fallout work – but in Excel?
The idea is that in the spreadsheet application you render a block-like map on which you can move around with your team, visit cities or vaults, and pick up missions. Map exploration and mission completion are punctuated by battles, which are turn-based (as in the original Fallout RPG back in 1997) and D&D-style (starting rolls, then rolling hit, etc.).
Yes, it’s a pretty basic game, but the YouTube video above makes it pretty clear that it’s a unique, special experience. On the part of the developer The Storyteller (or Dynamic Pear on YouTube), it is quite an impressive achievement to have put it together in a spreadsheet. The limits of Excel are pushed significantly these days, TweakTown recalls, following Tom’s Hardware, which writes that a complete 3D game engine was rendered in the application. Despite the simplicity of the end result, this is really nothing.
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