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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XBL Indie ‘Weapon of Choice’ chosen by Blitz for PC release

Submitted by admin on March 25, 2010 – 5:45 pmNo Comment

623398fa77cheap.jpg XBL Indie Weapon of Choice chosen by Blitz for PC release
The debut Xbox Live Indie Game from former Insomniac designer Nathan Fouts, Weapon of Choice, is headed to the PC by way of Blitz Games Studios and its Blitz 1UP label. It’s not the first Indie picked up by the publisher; Binary Tweed’s Clover: A Curious Tale was released for Windows via a number of different digital distribution services earlier this year.

Blitz doesn’t have a launch date yet for the port of WOC, but creator Fouts has made a strong case for PC players to be excited. “With the help of Blitz 1UP, we hope to relieve your monitors from constantly displaying games in browns and grays,” he stated in today’s announcement, adding, “It’s time to vomit up some vibrant color with trip-inducing visuals of alien viscera!” Kevin Butler, watch your back.

You can try (and, if you like, buy) the second XBL Indie release from Mommy’s Best Games, Shoot 1UP, right now from the Xbox Live Marketplace. [Handy-dandy Marketplace link!]

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