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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Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Hits the App Store [IPhone Apps]

Submitted by admin on January 18, 2010 – 12:10 amNo Comment

bd0708049350 am.jpg Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Hits the App Store [IPhone Apps]The iPhone’s got its first GTA title, and it looks pretty great. As teased before, this is a top-down GTA, and it’s a near-direct port of the Nintendo DS version, albeit with better graphics, and more awkward controls.

Touch Arcade’s had some time to run/jack/drive/murder their way around the game a little bit, and here’s what they noticed:

• The graphics are much better than they looked in the early screenshots, falling closer to the PSP version of the game than the DS version.

• The plot and writing are classic GTA, which is to say decent, and gratuitously profane. In a good way!

• The controls aren’t as awkward as they look. (Note: they look very awkward.)

• It’s a full-fledged GTA title, with integrated minigames, hours of gameplay and an appropriately high price: $10.

GTA: Chinatown Wars is live in the App Store. [Touch Arcade]

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