Professor's mission leads to the necromantic accounting game
Video games can be of all shapes and sizes. There is a lot of pleasure that comes from all the creativity that emerges in all kinds of people, and the relief of stress (or inducing) that can result. It can go from anything, playing a soothing game of Animal Crossing to run and survive in a Tomb Raider game. And sometimes, a game can take the shape of a spreadsheet. Yes, seriously, a spreadsheet. Only this spreadsheet is for an army of living dead. There is a bit of a background story, luckily. All this has actually been imagined by a game design teacher at the NYU Game Center, Alexander King. King, to launch a challenge to her students, asked them for a duty to create a game using Google spreadsheets as a base. And the students did not disappoint. This particular game is called Dividends & Decay: Accounting for the Damned. This is an excellent game, and according to the description, it is about creating spreadsheets and working as an accountant for the military army of a nec...