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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Facebook Lets You Update Twitter From Your Profile

Submitted by admin on December 15, 2009 – 11:03 amNo Comment

29abacdad1witter.jpg Facebook Lets You Update Twitter From Your Profile

With everybody jumping on the Twitter bandwagon nowadays, it shouldn’t be too surprising to see that even Facebook is looking to Twitter to appeal to netizens. Facebook has announced that users will be able to post to Twitter directly from their Facebook profiles, which is certainly handy. Of course, with web services like Tweetdeck or Friendfeed, such a feature isn’t exactly revolutionary, though it’s certainly handy to see such a feature added into Facebook itself, right? Would you tweet from your Facebook profile, or continue doing whatever you’re doing?

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