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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Machine Gun Bacon Is the Best Part of Waking Up [Bacon]

Submitted by admin on March 31, 2010 – 3:23 pmNo Comment

fcb1829d93gbacon.jpg Machine Gun Bacon Is the Best Part of Waking Up [Bacon]Well that pretty much says it all, doesn’t it? Turns out all you need to crisp up your bacon is some tin foil, string, and a locked and loaded 7.62mm machine gun.

If you like your bacon on the well-done side, you’ll want to go through 250 rounds or so, but according to the intrepid Redditer who actually did this, you can probably get away with just 150. Full step by step instructions, with sexy machine gun bacon pics, await you here. [Reddit via Neatorama]

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