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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The Best of Big Download: December 14-20

Submitted by admin on December 20, 2009 – 11:00 pmNo Comment

cbd0544d18qmay99.jpg The Best of Big Download: December 14 20

Just because many feet of snow have fallen on some of us since we last spoke doesn’t mean we weren’t plenty busy with news, features, and downloads this past week. Below and after the jump you’ll find just some of our highlights from the past seven days — that is if you’re not too busy with snow clearing or going to see movies in the third dimension:

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News

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