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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Hands-on with the Apple iPad

Submitted by admin on January 27, 2010 – 3:16 pmNo Comment

08f8889e9532831.jpg Hands on with the Apple iPad

Handling the iPad for the first time is quite an experience. Maybe I’m too caught up in they hype field of Steve Jobs’s keynote, but as soon as I was holding the sleek tablet in my hands, I’ve never felt a greater wave of “I want this.” The weight feels just right, slightly more than a Kindle, and the big screen is simply inviting. “Touch me,” it says, just by existing.

As Jobs mentioned, since I know how to use an iPhone, playing with the iPad was simple. Pressing the home screen takes you to your home screen, and sliding your finger to the right calls up the Spotlight search engine. Apps launch by touching them, expanding from their icons. Things like Maps, Calendar and iTunes work just like you’d expect them to… except faster. Apps launch quickly, the screen responds instantly when you touch something, and there are no annoying delays when you key something in. That 1GHz A4 processor really works.

Continue reading for more first-hand impressions — including the most confusing thing about Apple’s new toy.

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