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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Twitter from space

Submitted by admin on January 24, 2010 – 2:23 amNo Comment

a708972f86witter.jpg Twitter from space

Shortly after Bill Gates jumped aboard the Twitter bandwagon, along comes news that mankind has made the firt tweet from space. Yes sir, NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer who is on board the International Space Station, earlier sent a Twitter message from space this morning with the following – “Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station–the 1st live tweet from Space! icon smile Twitter from space More soon, send your ?s.” You know that new social media has really taken off when it goes out of the earth’s atmosphere.

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