Become a backbone accountant in this spreadsheet game

In the world of video games, some of us are very, very happy to play a game that looks like a spreadsheet. On the other hand, game designers spend a lot of time designing systems in spreadsheets.To his students, Alexander King, a game design professor at the New York University Game Center A task: Make a prototype game that exists in a spreadsheet.

One of the projects was designed by design student Jordan Grayson, called Dividends & Decay: Accounting for the Damned, and it was somewhere between jokes about my favorite game genre and actual examples of my favorite game genre. Described like this: “Play as an undead accountant and manage the evil spreadsheet of a necromancer!”