EXCEL-lent Games

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  Homepage links to games

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  Flappy Bird

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  2048

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  Tetris

Inspiration

These are classic games we like.

What it does

You can play Tetris, Flappy Bird, and 2048 in Excel.

How we built it

Flappy Bird is built with only formulae in Excel cells. Tetris and 2048 are built using scripts.

Challenges we ran into

Initially we wanted to create all 3 games using only formulae, but Tetris needed advanced timing which was not possible without using scripts.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The games work, and Flappy Bird doesn't use a single script! Excel has no way to automate or detect user clicks (without macros), so we had to work around this by building the playability into the F9 recalculation function.

What we learned

We all learned how to program in TypeScript, which was new to all of us. We also learned how to collaborate on code, specifically in Excel scripts.

What's next for EXCEL-lent Games

More games!

Built With

• excel
• typescript