Cheese Chasers Excel Version 1.12 | Cheese Chasers

Dion Baxter

(PinkyMan)

United Kingdom
Canterbury
Kent

My first Excel game. I would have loved to added graphics but it still gives me that 'cheese fix' when I have a few spare moments.

If anyone notices any glaring errors, please let me know. Or perhaps any suggestions for improving it.

Suggestions I have had so far are:

Add pictures for the tiles - Alas, way beyond my ability with Excel

Make a smaller play area.
Keep a permanent high score.
Improve the colour scheme.
Add a 'current score' option.

All opinions welcome.

Posted Sat Jun 13, 2009 6:59 pm
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Lloyd Nikolas

(nikolaslloyd)

United Kingdom
Newcastle

Some help with this would be welcome. What do I need to do to get this to work? Do I need some specific software to open the file and use it? I tried downloading it, and nothing happened that I could make sense of.

Posted Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:47 pm
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Dion Baxter

(PinkyMan)

United Kingdom
Canterbury
Kent

Hi, thanks for downloading it. :-)

Firstly, it is an Excel file. So you will need Excel to use it. (It might work on OpenOffice but I haven't tried it)

Secondly, you must have 'macros enabled'. By default, Excel usually disables them from untrusted sources so you will need to enable them to play the game. It has been thoroughly check with Norton, AVG, Kapersky and I have had no complaints so... trust it. :-)

Any more problems, feel free to contact me via BGG.

Posted Sat Sep 19, 2009 3:27 pm
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Philip N

(mrgreencom)

United States

Colorado

Doesn't seem to work in Open Office due to the following error:

The following Basic script could not be found:
Library: 'Standard'
Module: 'PlaceTile'
Method: ''
Location: 'document'

Posted Sun Nov 29, 2009 7:58 am
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Dion Baxter

(PinkyMan)

United Kingdom
Canterbury
Kent

I don't have Open Office installed anymore (no HD space!) so I can't really help with this.

The game MUST have VBscript enabled to work in Excel, so if there is something similar in Open Office, that might do the trick. (Fingers crossed)

One day, I'll try to make a Flash version of the game. (If Bran kindly gives permission again

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Posted Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:31 am
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Philip N

(mrgreencom)

United States

Colorado

I looked it up and it has VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) and OOB (OpenOffice Basic), but I don't know what it would take to port it over.

Posted Sun Nov 29, 2009 8:56 pm
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Dion Baxter

(PinkyMan)

United Kingdom
Canterbury
Kent

Open Office 3.0 (and later) should have VBA support. (Note the word 'support' not 'compatability')
There are some programs out there that claim to convert (for a fee) VBA to OOB, but I have no experience with them myself. As much as I like to support open source software, I'm afraid I can't really help.

I'm more than happy for anyone to convert it to OpenOffice and then they can take credit for it though.

Posted Mon Nov 30, 2009 7:39 pm
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Philip N

(mrgreencom)

United States

Colorado

I'm not too worried about it, but I look forward to seeing your Flash version, thanks for sharing your hard work!

Posted Tue Dec 1, 2009 2:46 am
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Beer be with you.

(kjamma4)

United States
Northlake
Illinois

Last Ten Games I've Played: IGEL ARGERN, Glen More, PHASE 10 DICE, Phase 10, TANK CHARTS, Mexican Train, BLOKUS, TTR: Europe, RUMMY, Merchant of Venus

PinkyMan wrote:

Or perhaps any suggestions for improving it.

Just a minor tweak - break down the Tiles Left info into the four types of tiles. That way, you could know how many Cats are coming up !!!

[EDIT: One more. It would be nice if it could create a file that would show the order the tiles came out and how you placed them.]

Edited Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:40 pm
Posted Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:37 pm
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Dion Baxter

(PinkyMan)

United Kingdom
Canterbury
Kent

kjamma4 wrote:

Just a minor tweak - break down the Tiles Left info into the four types of tiles. That way, you could know how many Cats are coming up !!!

[EDIT: One more. It would be nice if it could create a file that would show the order the tiles came out and how you placed them.]

Cheers. It's been a while since I tinkered with the file.

I'll hope to catch a few spare minutes and probably set it on a separate page so people have a choice of playing with these hints.

I particularly like the idea of recording moves. I've always wondered about how to calculate the best possible score. This will give people a challenge to see if their score could be improved with the same tiles.

*edit typos*

Edited Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:44 pm
Posted Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:33 pm
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