{"id":1630,"date":"2010-07-07T18:25:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T17:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2010-07-07T18:25:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T17:25:36","slug":"excel-2010-games-missile-command-and-tower-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/07\/excel-2010-games-missile-command-and-tower-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel 2010 Games: Missile Command and Tower Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw this post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/excel\/archive\/2010\/06\/23\/excel-2010-games-missile-command-and-tower-defense.aspx\">Microsoft Excel 2010 Blog<\/a>\u00a0and at first I thought WOW have they brought back easter eggs in\u00a0Microsoft\u00a0Office! :p Well it wasn&#8217;t an Easter Egg but still cool.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s official, Office 2010 is out! To celebrate, we&#8217;ve created two games that are playable in Excel for you to download.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Missile Command<\/li>\n<li>Tower Defense<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To play, you&#8217;ll need &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Download games <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/cfs-file.ashx\/__key\/CommunityServer-Components-PostAttachments\/00-10-02-90-77\/ExcelGames.zip\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>To install Excel 2010, hot off the press last week. You can get a free trial <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/\">here<\/a>. The games use features that are new to Excel 2010, so they won&#8217;t work in older versions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When you open the files to play, don&#8217;t forget to enable the macros.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a video of the two games in action:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/532_BZjDSpY&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/532_BZjDSpY&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>In the next two blog posts, we&#8217;ll explain how we made these games.<\/p>\n<p>And one more thing &#8211; for a look at the people behind Excel on the job, check out this video of Excel program managers, Karen and Manpratap, singing a song about Excel and Excel Services.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5pnNkwZ-3G4&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5pnNkwZ-3G4&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw this post on the Microsoft Excel 2010 Blog\u00a0and at first I thought WOW have they brought back easter eggs in\u00a0Microsoft\u00a0Office! :p Well it wasn&#8217;t an Easter Egg but still cool. 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