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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Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 15 – Feb. 21: Stationary Year edition

Submitted by admin on February 28, 2010 – 10:21 pmNo Comment

f9037921ed0 copy.jpg Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 15   Feb. 21: Stationary Year edition
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We think we can all agree that Leap Years are like, the best thing ever. It’s an extra day! An extra 24 hours you can spend doing whatever you want, unless it falls on a work day, in which case, you’ll probably spend it working. It augments the month of February, changing it from a truncated, dissatisfying calendar partition into a slightly less truncated, dissatisfying calendar partition.

We had planned out a ton of Leap Year-related activities for tomorrow, but were recently crushed to learn that tomorrow is plain ol’ March 1. We thought we’d memorized the time-old mnemonic device: “February 29 will join your collection, in all years including a mid-term election.” Apparently, it ends with “presidential election,” with optional addendum, “unless the year is divisible by 100, in which case, it’s not a leap year, unless it’s actually divisible by 400, in which case, it is a leap year.” Man, what a stupid mnemonic device.

- PSP: 32,796 8806981bbeArrow.jpg Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 15   Feb. 21: Stationary Year edition 6,497 (16.53%)
- PS3: 32,130 7dcdbe7b28Arrow.jpg Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 15   Feb. 21: Stationary Year edition 7,319 (29.50%)
- Wii: 31,652 8806981bbeArrow.jpg Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 15   Feb. 21: Stationary Year edition 5,849 (15.60%)
- DSi LL: 24,388 8806981bbeArrow.jpg Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 15   Feb. 21: Stationary Year edition 3,198 (11.59%)
- DSi: 15,380 8806981bbeArrow.jpg Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 15   Feb. 21: Stationary Year edition 2,702 (14.94%)
- DS Lite: 5,053 8806981bbeArrow.jpg Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 15   Feb. 21: Stationary Year edition 606 (10.71%)
- Xbox 360: 2,453 8806981bbeArrow.jpg Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 15   Feb. 21: Stationary Year edition 975 (28.44%)
- PS2: 1,883 7dcdbe7b28Arrow.jpg Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 15   Feb. 21: Stationary Year edition 14 (0.75%)
- PSP Go: 1,371 8806981bbeArrow.jpg Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 15   Feb. 21: Stationary Year edition 23 (1.65%)

[Source: Media Create]

Read: The mnemonic archives

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