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Fallout style RPG made in Excel
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Re: Fallout style RPG made in Excel
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh-42-7L7B0
Seems they've made a few: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyN2mpPl_WGxaCd3QIcJ7...
Looks like their “Baldur’s Gate” and “Fallout” games are practically identical, with similar overworld map and battle systems?
https://storyteller-blog.com/2024/03/22/i-made-a-baldurs-gat...
Re: Fallout style RPG made in Excel
#23> simplified version of DnD mechanics Isn't Fallout based on GURPS?
It was meant to be, but:
1) they found it too complex for a game user interface, so they started to create a "GURPS-lite"
2) it was licensed from Steve Jackson Games, who didn't like the level of violence in the game. Thus began a fight over whether licensing even included veto rights on the entire game
So in the end, they tweaked their "GURPS-lite" further, named it "SPECIAL", and abandoned the licensing deal
https://web.archive.org/web/20151004175725/http://www.nma-fa...
Re: Fallout style RPG made in Excel
#24If anyone is in the mood for throwback gaming, I highly recommend Pathways into Darkness (1993). [0]
This was Bungie before Halo... before Marathon!
Specifically, the UI, in which you see game designers grappling with resource and development limitations and creating a weird hybrid of a filesystem-storing-game-objects + HUD-via-multiple-tiled-windows.
In the same way that the original Mac Myst was a collection of Hypercard stacks. [1]
Proto-GUIs are kinda my jam. Gotta know where we came from, and the paths (into darkness) not explored!
And it's nice to have a reminder that everything doesn't have to start with building or buying a game engine. Weird is needed too.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathways_into_Darkness#Gamep...
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"Spreadsheets in space on a spreadsheet" is my new favourite expletive for expressing shock!
Re: Fallout style RPG made in Excel
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems they've made a few: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyN2mpPl_WGxaCd3QIcJ7...
Looks like their “Baldur’s Gate” and “Fallout” games are practically identical, with similar overworld map and battle systems? https://storyteller-blog.com/2024/03/22/i-made-a-baldurs-gat...
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#27I had no idea Excel was even capable of something like this. Incredible!
You can create a 3d engine with Excel!
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For a just spreadsheets (with a Bloomberg Terminal inspired interface) that scratches some of the EVE industry itches, give Prosperous Universe a glance https://prosperousuniverse.com .
Remember that you're a CEO checks in once a day, says do these things and then goes and plays golf or mows the lawn - not a space ship pilot that needs to worry about gankers at the jump points.
Re: Fallout style RPG made in Excel
#29If anyone is in the mood for throwback gaming, I highly recommend Pathways into Darkness (1993). [0] This was Bungie before Halo... before Marathon ! Specifically, the UI, in which you see game designers grappling with resource and development limitations and creating a weird hybrid of a filesystem-storing-game-objects + HUD-via-multiple-tiled-windows. In the same way that the original Mac Myst was a collection of Hy…
Is there an emscripten version of Pathways into Darkness?
Re: Fallout style RPG made in Excel
#30If anyone is in the mood for throwback gaming, I highly recommend Pathways into Darkness (1993). [0] This was Bungie before Halo... before Marathon ! Specifically, the UI, in which you see game designers grappling with resource and development limitations and creating a weird hybrid of a filesystem-storing-game-objects + HUD-via-multiple-tiled-windows. In the same way that the original Mac Myst was a collection of Hy…
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