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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Kitchen with living walls is guaranteed to creep you out

Submitted by admin on April 25, 2010 – 4:22 pmNo Comment

I love kitchens where everything is designed to tuck away neatly when not in use, But sometimes function will follow form, and what you end up with doesn’t work too well on a practical level.

The Living Kitchen from French designer Michaël Harboun seems to fall into that trap, relying on robots to create its dazzling shape shifting walls. Sinks, faucets, and cutting boards appear seemingly out of nowhere, only to disappear again once their function is no longer needed. The result looks like it would make a great set for a horror movie called When Kitchens Attack.

I guess the upside is that it should be easy to clean once everything is tucked away, but is there any other practical benefit to this design, or is it just creepier than hell?

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