A downloadable game

You're a Xenoanthropologist: the first, actually, to be sent out to distant planets to study possibly sophont (beings with reasoning capabilities equal to or greater than humans) extraterrestrial life. You finally awake from cryosleep on your starship after 14,790 years of travel at 1000 km/s, arriving at a star system 50 light years from Earth. Explore the four planets and unearth a rather bizarre story.... 

Includes Elementalist: A scissors paper stone clone prototype where you endlessly battle monsters by casting water, earth, fire and air spells. 

Xenoanthropologist is a collection of 2 very short Microsoft Excel games that was a partial credit submission for the National University of Singapore course GEI1000 Computational Reasoning. They were intermittently worked on over two weeks from April to May 2024. 

Download Information:

To play the games, download the .zip file, and open the .xlsm files. You must enable Excel macros. For Xenoanthropologist, you will have to click the button "Restart Game" upon opening the file, to begin the opening message sequence. 

Two additional files with the .vb extension are included, they are for ease of viewing the code of the games. You may open these files in a code editor to view the game code. Xenoanthropologist is ~410 lines, and Elementalist ~160 lines.

Published 3 days ago
StatusReleased
AuthorNicholas Foo
Tagsexcel, microsoft-excel, Narrative, Sci-fi, Short
Average sessionA few minutes
InputsKeyboard

Download

Download
Xenoanthropologist by Nicholas Foo.zip 164 kB

Install instructions

To play the games, download the .zip file, and open the .xlsm files. You must enable Excel macros. For Xenoanthropologist, you will have to click the button "Restart Game" upon opening the file, to begin the opening message sequence. 

Two additional files with the .vb extension are included, they are for ease of viewing the game code. You may open these files in a code editor to view the game code. 

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