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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Quadrocopter lurks mid-air, shoots video or peeps

Submitted by admin on January 19, 2010 – 5:55 pmNo Comment

85daee86f632287.jpg Quadrocopter lurks mid air, shoots video or peeps

Maybe this NicoletoMK Mikrokopter Quadrocopter is not trendy enough to be controlled by an iPhone like that Parrott AR.Drone we saw at CES, but it’s powerful enough for its four rotors to lift a 1.1-lb camcorder. You can either control it with its sophisticated remote or program it to lurk in the air autonomously, dutifully sending video back to you from its lofty perch according to your own preprogrammed flight plan.

This is no toy, created for professional videographers to smoothly shoot aerial footage, and serious peeping toms to look into places where they’re not necessarily wanted. If you speak German, you might understand what they’re talking about in this video of this way-cool copter in flight:

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