The humble spreadsheet has always been the game designer’s best friend. Some aspects of this long-running relationship are widely known, but certain others continue to evade notice. Most gamers for example are probably aware that balancing is done by spreadsheet. How exactly does this work? The level of complexity increases sharply with the number of independent variables, but the basic idea is actually quite simple.

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