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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Prepare wallets! DSi XL hits on March 28 for $190

Submitted by admin on February 24, 2010 – 3:23 pmNo Comment

1f74229601otness.jpg Prepare wallets! DSi XL hits on March 28 for $190

Not everyone agrees that the DSi XL was a necessary step; after all, the original DS and DS Lite were the best selling game things on the market with their little screens and limited brightness. But when you hear about parents and grandparents enjoying a game of Picross or Professor Layton, you start to remember that yeah, there are other people in the world. And maybe they could use a device more suited to their needs. That’s kind of the other side of the the coin in the games-as-art debate. They’re also mass market entertainment, and we gamers need to let go of the elitism that was born in disk-switching and mega-hard NES games. There really is a market for Grandpa games, and devices should reflect that. At any rate, the XL will be hitting our shores on March 28th, according to a Nintendo spokeslady. $189.99 gets you a big old 4.2″ screen (two of them, I should say) and a real pen-sized stylus. I might just have to hit this up, since I get claw hand from holding onto that tiny little stylus all day. …

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