Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 24 April 2014
This part of the tutorial implements a state system to make it easier to determine what actions to perform each time the game updates.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 24 April 2014
In this part of the tutorial you'll learn how to make the game detect collisions between the bird and the obstacles.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 24 April 2014
This part of the tutorial shows you how to add obstacles to the game and how to make them move across the screen.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 24 April 2014
This part of the tutorial explains how to generate a game worksheet using code to define the playing area.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 24 April 2014
This part of the tutorial introduces the concept of class modules and shows you how to use them to organise your code.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 11 April 2014
This part of the tutorial describes how to draw simple images using a worksheet as the canvas. You'll also see how to include the images in the game.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 11 April 2014
This part of the tutorial describes how to respond to keys pressed by the player. You'll learn about the Application.OnKey method and the GetAsyncKeyState Windows API function.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 11 April 2014
This part of the tutorial adds a basic menu system with ActiveX command buttons to start and stop the game.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 11 April 2014
This part of the tutorial describes how to set up a timing loop which allows the game to update continuously.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 11 April 2014
This part of the tutorial describes how to make use of Windows API functions to extend the power of Excel VBA.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 11 April 2014
This part of the tutorial describes how to setup a basic workbook ready for you to start coding the Flappy Owl game.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 11 April 2014
This part of the Flappy Bird in Excel VBA Tutorial introduces you to the Flappy Owl game and provides download links and instructions to get it running in Excel on your machine.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 11 April 2014
This is the main index page for the Flappy Bird in Excel VBA tutorial. Here you can find links to all of the articles which comprise the tutorial.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 19 February 2014
This blog provides the SQL, C# and VB script needed for the Integration Services script components tutorial.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 13 January 2014
You can use VBA to extract data from web pages, either as whole tables or by parsing the underlying HTML elements. This blog shows you how to code both methods (the technique is often called "web-scraping").
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 25 November 2013
You can get at all sorts of system information within Visual Basic for Applications by using environment variables - this blog shows you how to get at your user's name, computer name and much more besides.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 07 November 2013
A short blog explaining how to use Visual Basic for Applications to loop over enumerations.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 November 2013
Range names can have either worksheet or workbook scope - this blog shows how to make sure that you're referring to the right range names!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 November 2013
A short blog showing how to stop Excel hiding duplicate values for pivot table groups.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 November 2013
The SUMPRODUCT function is one of the hardest ones to understand in Excel, but it's also pretty useful. This blog gives clear examples of how to use SUMPRODUCT for conditional sums, weighted averages and the like.