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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Guitar-Shaped iPhone Speaker Encourages Using Your Phone as an Instrument [IPhone]

Submitted by admin on January 25, 2010 – 6:08 pmNo Comment

91fa32e037100 1.jpg Guitar Shaped iPhone Speaker Encourages Using Your Phone as an Instrument [IPhone]This awesome guitar-shaped Bird Electron Ezison 100 iPhone speaker is designed to be used with the many guitar apps in the App Store. How long until we start seeing legit bands use stuff like this on stage?

The Ezison 100 is handmade, and there only 50 of them being made. They’ve got pegs for a guitar strap, are crafted from plywood and acrylic and look downright adorable. They’re $290 each, and for that price you get a speaker that the manufacturer admits “may sound distorted.” But who cares, with a shape as charming as this? [Bird Electron via CrunchGear via SlashGear]

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