{"id":34583,"date":"2021-12-30T11:54:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34583"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:54:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:54:10","slug":"spreadsheet-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/30\/spreadsheet-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreadsheet Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LiterallyAKing\/status\/1473775422043262992\">Alexander King<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LiterallyAKing\/status\/1473775422043262992\">\n<p>Everyone knows game designers love working with spreadsheets, but there aren&rsquo;t enough games that run <em>in<\/em> spreadsheets.<\/p>\n<p>But my students are helping set things right. Check out some of their amazing games, all playable in Excel or Google Sheets[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I challenged the students to make games that embraced the unique affordances (&amp; limitations) of the software. Not games that happen to be spreadsheets, but that truly couldn&rsquo;t run anywhere else.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander King: Everyone knows game designers love working with spreadsheets, but there aren&rsquo;t enough games that run in spreadsheets. But my students are helping set things right. Check out some of their amazing games, all playable in Excel or Google Sheets[&#8230;] [&#8230;] I challenged the students to make games that embraced the unique affordances (&amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-12-30T16:54:12Z","apple_news_api_id":"8ae8bc9f-87f8-45d3-990b-94af1587774f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-12-30T16:54:12Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Aiui8n4f4RdOZC5SvFYd3Tw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[418,610,609,684,96],"class_list":["post-34583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-game","tag-google-docs","tag-microsoft-excel","tag-spreadsheet","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34584,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34583\/revisions\/34584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}