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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Weekly Webcomic Wrapup will miss you, Conan

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

7fd07cd437289303.jpg Weekly Webcomic Wrapup will miss you, Conan

Though we know the gargantuan, scarlet-coiffured late night host … err, former late night host will soon find new (and hopefully more stable) employment, we’re going to miss him profoundly. Not only did he provide us with regular belly-laughs, he also began frequently poking fun at video games during sketches on The Tonight Show. In that sense, we’ve not only lost a great entertainer — we’ve lost a brother in arms.

Cheer yourself up after that depressing assertion by checking out our seven favorite gaming-centric comics from the past week, which we’ve posted below. Vote for your favorite after the jump, and let us know what strips we may have missed out on in the comments!

Contagious (Brawl in the Family)
Bayonetta (Another Videogame Webcomic)
Sounds Dark (SideScrollers)
Tortoises and Hares (2P Start)
No One Likes Superman (Virtual Shackles)
Divine Comedy (Pondering the Obvious)
Hardly What I’d Call Conviction (Monday Night Crew)

Weekly Webcomic Wrapup: January 23, 2010

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