Playable 3D game made using Excel formulas

Three months ago we posted about a Japanese retiree using Excel to create art, and it seems abusing the productivity app to do things it was never meant to do is actually a thing, as today we have another unbelievable example of the same.

Gamasutra community member C Bel has created a real-life 3D game created using nothing by Excel formulas.

C Bell specifically did it the hard way, by not using Visual Basic for Applications, and his creation supports:

• infinite procedural generated maze map
• real time ray tracer rendering
• occlusion calculation
• basic illumination rendering
• illumination and compute shader
• natural displacement engine
• No macro at all used by the 3D engine

See it demoed in his video below:

Being just a spreadsheet, you can download the file (including a high-resolution version sure to kill your PC) from Gamasutra here.

Via Gizmodo.com.au