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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Team Fortress 2 re-imagined as a side-scroller

Submitted by admin on March 4, 2010 – 10:32 pmNo Comment

912b8637a1ide580.jpg Team Fortress 2 re imagined as a side scroller

Dylan Loney isn’t just a dude with an awesome name, he’s also quite the Team Fortress 2 mod-tician … which is a real word that we totally didn’t make up. With a couple of custom maps under his belt, Loney decided to up the ante, so he rolled up his sleeves and turned Valve’s class-based shooter into a speedy side-scroller.

The redesign was part of a contest for Interlopers back in December. Drawing inspiration from Canabalt, Loney created the complimentary mixture of TF2’s characters and Canabalt’s fast side-scrolling gameplay you see above. Actually, an image really doesn’t sell it, so head past the break to check out some footage of it in action.

[Via Kotaku]

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