Programmer creates own Xcom game in Excel

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A user of Reddit has a Xcom game made in Excel. The work is, according to him, is not yet finished, but the game is already playable. Although the game in graphical point of view, very little of Xcom, is the underlying game mechanics the same.

In his Redditpost allows user crruzi that at this time the balance in the game is not yet tuned, and there are enough bugs in it, but that the game works. Also special abilities like run ‘n’ gun, known from the Xcom games, sit in it. In addition, the environment can be destroyed and there is a level editor. The elements between the levels, such as the base-build, investigations, hearings, and other strategic matters, there are still not in.

Crruzi says he has the vba programming language for his work was to teach and in the course of which decided to be a Xcom game. “Two months ago I couldn’t get a line, write code,” he says in the comments. He says especially YouTube and Google used to have solutions for are programmeerproblemen to find. Further, he reported that it is a limitation for a game that you don’t have Excel with 30fps screen refresh. Instead, it works the code with intervals, which makes the scenes in the game can jump.

According to crruzi is there even a story in the game. “It takes place between the events of Xcom: Enemy Within and Xcom 2. Guerrillas are trying to make their city free from Advent-occupiers.” For people who have the game want to try it, has crruzi are EXLcom.xlsb-file available.