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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Live Apple Event ‘Come see our latest creation’ January 27th 10am PT

Submitted by admin on January 22, 2010 – 10:03 amNo Comment

 Live Apple Event Come see our latest creation January 27th 10am PT

On January 27th, join us for the live coverage of Apple’s “new creation”
in San Francisco. Go to http://live.ubergizmo.com: we will be at the event to provide up to the minute (or
less!) photos and comments: you will feel like being in the room! The show
starts at 10am Pacific Time but we will start posting earlier in the morning
and we will continue after the show. See you then! What is a live Blogging session?
Look at past live events like the launch of the Palm Pre, or Sony’s Press Conference at CES.

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