Be a skeletal accountant in this spreadsheet game

In the world of video games there are some of us who are very, very happy to play a game that looks like a spreadsheet. Game designers, on the other hand, spend a lot of time designing systems inside of spreadsheets. Alexander King, a professor of game design at NYU’s Game Center, gave his students an assignment: Make a prototype game that exists within a spreadsheet.

One of these projects, by design student Jordan Grayson, is Dividends & Decay: Accounting for the Damned, and it’s somewhere between a joke about my favorite kind of game and an actual example of my favorite kind of game. Described thusly: “Play as an undead accountant managing the evil spreadsheets of a necromancer!”