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Almost all of them. Back when I used to play Kingdom of Loathing (a super casual game whose main attraction is that it contains a lot of jokes), I used spreads
by amalcon 4y ago
Almost all of them. Back when I used to play Kingdom of Loathing (a super casual game whose main attraction is that it contains a lot of jokes), I used spreadsheets to optimize everything from which food to eat to which familiar to use when. Way back in the day, I wrote a (for me-at-the-time) math-heavy guide for the N64 Goldeneye game; I used spreadsheets for that.
I know of people who've used spreadsheets for routing speedruns of games you wouldn't think you could optimize that way (e.g. entries in the Mario Kart series).
- vintagedave 4y agoDo you still have a copy of the Goldeneye guide? I'd be curious to read it. Math was not in my mind when I played it back in the day.
- amalcon 4y agoI don't, but GameFaqs still does. Keep in mind that 1999-me was... not a great writer, or particularly good at math, by HN standards. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/n64/197462-goldeneye-007/faqs/3229 https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/n64/197462-goldeneye-007/faqs/...
- pedrosorio 4y ago"If you want to know what Perfect Dark is, just do a search for it (I used Yahoo and got tons of hits, and the game's not even out yet)" Feels like getting out of a time-machine :)
- forgotpwd16 4y ago>Almost all of them. For any game that can be optimized in some way someone has made a spreadsheet for it.
- ElvisTrout 4y agoHey fellow KOLer! It was a spreadsheet heavy game for sure. Good times.