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Spreadsheets are magical tools that can not only help you organize your finances, but they can also help you prototype video game logic. No really-- they can. That is what I spent a good chunk of my time this past iteration doing: modelling the new part of the base game and balancing it. All done without a line of code or even opening a code editor.

I knew that spreadsheets were the glue that kept software projects together, but never realized how they would be so much more critical in video game development projects.

Every project needs an end, and that includes video games. But how do you decide what "done" means for your prototype, your vertical slice, or even your whole game? I might not know much about game development—but I have a lot of experience defining software scope. For my most recent iteration, I spent time out of the code editor and in a Markdown editor. I even used spreadsheets! *gasp* 😜

As familiar as I am with scalable software design for non-game development projects, in this past iteration, I started to assess whether or not scalability is something I need to consider for video game design.

With Prairie Dev Con (PrDC) 2026 complete, there was a clear theme in everything I managed to see and share—the future of software development is agentic. This doesn't necessarily mean it's all "doom and gloom," but rather an evolution has taken hold in our industry.