Excelling at Excel and more!


Heyo! 

On the theme of being lost, I was feeling pretty lost the last day of the Jam and my partner Fred was MIA (missing in action). There I was, with a not so coding heavy project, and being very confused. To be honest, Google Sheets is confusing.  And inevitably, so is also our game interface/instructions. 

I still like this idea and at the end of the jam I was thinking of making a Powerpoint presentation variant to be able to have a video tutorial and making it easier to follow along. So yesterday I was on a Powerpoint tutorial spree on YouTube. I picked up some basics (which I'd love to show btw) , but being scared of getting into the VBA macro business, I decided Excel/Google sheets would be easier for a randomiser of this size of set (I mean can you imagine a spinning wheel with over 100 entries one a small powerpoint slide??)) . I found a randomising formula (so easy, the INDEX = store! A1:A102;RANDBETWEEN(1:102)) ,but I will put details in another update) and then I could replicate what already had been done in the released version with more control and better self-confidence. Yay! 

So now lost in discord v2 (not publicly available) is becoming as clean as I wanted the other one to be. I have distributed calculations to separate sheets so you  don't have that humongous set of lists going infinitely. Well, they are still needed but it won't be shown to you directly. 


Another big change is that I will make the instructions go up-bottom instead of left-right. I just think this will be easier for scrolling faster and being able to minimise the windows, setting you up for a more immersive experience with discord. 

I also am going to add some colour, more nicely formatted text, and maybe some powerpoint like images to spice it up! I say maybe, because by the time I started formatting, I had done some more research and thinking and come to the conclusion that the better overhaul of this game would be to develop the randomiser to be a Discord bot. That however, require me to learn js and discord a bit better so lets finish up an usable excel version first, yeah? 

See ya!


PS. embed is not a good solution for excel and powerpoint integration. such a hassle to save twice. 

PPS. I will need to revise this log. At a time when I'm not procrastinating studying about logic methods.

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