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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Vodafone Sells 50,000 Phones on Day One

Submitted by admin on January 17, 2010 – 5:10 pmNo Comment

7e02f9993d80x193.jpg Vodafone Sells 50,000 Phones on Day OneVodafone seems to be better off with the iPhone compared to the Google Nexus One. Unlike the troubled Google Phone, Vodafone has even encountered a shortage on orders for pre-ordered iPhones. They had initially shipped 50,000 iPhones for customers who have pre-ordered and reports say that this was not enough!

Vodafone has promised through Twitter that the pending phones may be delivered soon, unless something catastrophic or fortuitous occurs.

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