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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Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 11 – Jan. 18: Everyone loses edition

Submitted by admin on January 25, 2010 – 5:16 amNo Comment

06f27f3f9fnarrow.jpg Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 11   Jan. 18: Everyone loses edition

Well, we guess that answers that, huh?

No, but seriously folks — though Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep is still selling fairly strong, the PSP lost half of its sales power since last week. In fact, every piece of gaming hardware went into a free fall between January 11 and January 18, leading us to once again wonder what the hell is going on over there. Did a really good book come out, or something?

Based on our calculations, at this rate of decline, all of the numbers you see below should hit zero within about two months. We certainly hope this is just some sort of natural phenomenon, and not a secret doomsday countdown from our invisible extraterrestrial visitors.

- PSP: 71,186 8806981bbeArrow.jpg Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 11   Jan. 18: Everyone loses edition 74,496 (51.14%)
- Wii: 57,349 8806981bbeArrow.jpg Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 11   Jan. 18: Everyone loses edition 19,423 (25.30%)
- PS3: 35,156 8806981bbeArrow.jpg Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 11   Jan. 18: Everyone loses edition 26,435 (42.92%)
- DSi LL: 30,418 8806981bbeArrow.jpg Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 11   Jan. 18: Everyone loses edition 14,803 (32.73%)
- DSi: 27,292 8806981bbeArrow.jpg Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 11   Jan. 18: Everyone loses edition 22,886 (45.61%)
- DS Lite: 6,574 8806981bbeArrow.jpg Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 11   Jan. 18: Everyone loses edition 3,493 (34.70%)
- Xbox 360: 4,622 8806981bbeArrow.jpg Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 11   Jan. 18: Everyone loses edition 839 (15.36%)
- PS2: 2,580 8806981bbeArrow.jpg Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 11   Jan. 18: Everyone loses edition 512 (16.56%)
- PSP Go: 2,027 8806981bbeArrow.jpg Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 11   Jan. 18: Everyone loses edition 814 (28.65%)

[Source: Media Create]

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