Today's activities
Well following on from my previous post in this topic - today started in a very similar vein.

Rather than going home however, I decided to spend the entire morning constructing a very simple little macro based game in excel so myself and a colleague could play.... wait for it... BATTLESHIPS! Very carefully constructed grids in full technicolour, with instructions on what ships to build and how big they should be as well as macros to reset the grids and exit the game.

As it transpires, I am absolutely shiiiiiite at battleships as I have lost all three games we have played (well two out of three as my boss caught us playing the third and was not amused).

I think I will spend this afternoon making an electronic version of the old classic - connect 4. Thats if I don't get focussed on making blu-tac animals again like yesterday. (I have pics of said animals if you really want to see - but I must warn you... they are awesome.)
(Spangulum nailing your mother since 1824, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 12:34, 7 replies)

Yus pl0x
I'd like to see.

Such is my own boredom.
(ShitBitch, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 12:35, closed)

I'm wondering
if there'll be blu-tac cocks'n'balls too.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 14:07, closed)

there will be now!
maybe even blu-spooge too for added realism.

If you are a smurf anyway.
(Spangulum nailing your mother since 1824, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 14:27, closed)

Connect 4 is real easy in Excel
Take a grid of black squares, a column of yellow squares and a column of red squares.

To play, swap one black square and one red square. Email the result to the other player- that way you keep a chain of who's made which move (eliminating cheating). This is also good for playing Chess.

Alternatively, spend an hour writing VBA scripts to do it all for you... if you're really good you could get a workbook for yourself and a workbook for the opponent and have them sat on a network drive- then use VBA to link the different cells.
Hey, I think I have a project for the afternoon!
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 13:56, closed)

now...
You can't really post that without sharing the code.
(MattWPBS, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 14:12, closed)

ditto
That makes my humble attempt sound WEAK!
(Spangulum nailing your mother since 1824, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 14:26, closed)

Get on with the cocks'n'balls!
In the words of Meatloaf, 'Coding can wait.'
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 15:32, closed)