The Importance of Having a Spreadsheet

Marshall Ryan Maraska: I developed a thing with my Excel spreadsheet that was like an algorithm that took the resources available in each region and what its biome is. He then tried to randomly play it out to where populations would get denser and all that. "That's the lying down on the coals of masochism," he says, referring to his world-building methods. 'You don't have to go into the extremes of having ratios and spreadsheets unless you want to'