{"id":49308,"date":"2019-09-09T18:03:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T01:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=49308"},"modified":"2019-09-09T18:04:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T01:04:11","slug":"just-one-more-turn-in-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2019\/09\/09\/just-one-more-turn-in-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"Just one more turn&#8230; In Excel."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"s0lly&#039;s [CELL]IVIZATION: Trailer - Game in Excel\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PzETBRcr_i8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your eyes do not deceive you. That is a rough, but highly impressive, version of Sid Meier&#8217;s Civilization made in Microsoft Excel. Programmer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/s0lly\">s0lly<\/a> made the diversion as his entry in the <a href=\"https:\/\/itch.io\/jam\/olc-codejam-2019\">OLC CodeJam 2019<\/a>.  You can&#8217;t move through the eras. There isn&#8217;t any diplomacy. It has no AI opponents. The &#8220;countries&#8221; are limited to red and blue. For all that it&#8217;s missing, it&#8217;s still better than fighting with VLOOKUP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Get [CELL]ivization for free <a href=\"https:\/\/s0lly.itch.io\/cellivization\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your eyes do not deceive you. That is a rough, but highly impressive, version of Sid Meier&#8217;s Civilization made in Microsoft Excel. Programmer s0lly made the diversion as his entry in the OLC CodeJam 2019. You can&#8217;t move through the eras. There isn&#8217;t any diplomacy. 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