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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Kindle for BlackBerry becomes available, now with more squinting

Submitted by admin on February 22, 2010 – 9:16 amNo Comment

39e83b6534kBerry.png Kindle for BlackBerry becomes available, now with more squinting

Maybe you own a Kindle and find that its relatively small size might be on the big side when traveling or on the go, but you own a BlackBerry and not an iPhone. And maybe you never cared to own an iPhone until the Kindle app became available on it. Well, Amazon finally has some good news for you. Available in beta, the Kindle for BlackBerry app now brings over 400,000 books right to your handset. With the new app, you can access your Kindle library, notes and other tidbits. You can either get the app from Amazon’s website , or point your BlackBerry browser to Amazon’s mobile site for download . While you can always adjust the text size to your liking, I can’t imagine reading an entire book on a screen as small as the Bold 9700 or Curve 8520. Storm and Storm 2 owners might have a better time with a much bigger screen. If

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