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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Android 2.1 at Fault for Nexus One Screen Issues? Droid Owners Beware!

Submitted by admin on April 14, 2010 – 5:14 amNo Comment

734db7ae79Droid1.jpg Android 2.1 at Fault for Nexus One Screen Issues? Droid Owners Beware!

No doubt by now you’ve heard that the screen on Google’s Nexus One is apparently worse than the screen on Motorola’s Droid . The story goes that images on the Nexus One aint be poppin’ like they do on the Droid, and a study by DisplayMate apparently confirmed this. But now that Droids have been updated to Android 2.1, users have begun to complain that images displayed on their Droids look about as good as they did in the Commander Keen days. So, what’s the story? Android Central have a post that summarises the findings, and it turns out that Droid users aren’t losing their mind, but, rather, the gallery app in Adroid 2.1 has switched from 24-bit 2D rendering to using a measly 16-bits for the 3D rendering. It is noted in the article that the browser still renders in 24-bit (on both the Droid and the Nexus One), so at least you know that when your browsing I Can Has Cheezburger, the lolcats will look as good as possibe…

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