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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A Reminder of How Sad the Internet Can Look Without Flash [Image Cache]

Submitted by admin on March 13, 2010 – 4:39 amNo Comment

78eacfdfc7shfree.jpg A Reminder of How Sad the Internet Can Look Without Flash [Image Cache]When we discussed the iPad and whether it was worth giving in to the peer pressure and pre-ordering it, a commenter decided to remind us of his reason for resisting: No Flash. And yes, it can make things look sad.

Of course these screenshots are from an iPhone, but the iPad presently has the same unfortunate lack of Flash support as the iPhone, so the images are a pretty reasonable representation of what we would see.

Images originally posted by whatNow

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