Command & Conquer coded in HTML5
January 24, 2012 – 9:57 pm | No Comment

Remember the classic RTS known as Command & Conquer? Well, an enterprising coder, Aditya Ravi Shankar, actually recreated the strategy game using nothing but HTML5, where it runs on 69k of Javascript. Why did he set out on such an adventure? For starters, Shankar’s attempt was a self-mandated undertaking in order to improve his coding skills, where he gave himself a one month window to rebuild the game in the browser, and had to comb through the original game’s files in order to obtain all the right sprites, sounds and specs. According to Shankar, “In hindsight, I might have wanted to take smaller steps and make a tower defense game instead of jumping directly into an RTS. Trying to do the whole thing in under a month all by myself wasn’t the smartest idea.” As part of Shankar’s recreation of Command & Conquer, it included buildings, terrain, combat, tiberium harvesting and regrowth, in addition to the ability to sell and repair buildings. You want fog of war? It has that, too, in addition to a pannable map, different cursors, …

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Airtrax omnidirectional wheels

Submitted by admin on December 26, 2009 – 7:30 amNo Comment

a5a65c414birtrax.jpg Airtrax omnidirectional wheels

Remember the adage of not reinventing the wheel? Well Airtrax decided to go against common sense by coming up with omnidirectional wheels that strangely enough, actually work! These will target industrial vehicles by rolling forward, back, sideways and diagonally. Hmmm, it would be interesting to see these make an appearance on passenger cars as it would surely go great lengths in helping those who suffer from difficulty in parallel parking, especially in tighter spots.

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