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, …

Read the full story »
Apple

Latest Apple products news, iPod, iPhone, iTunes, Mac …

Digital Cameras

Digital camcorders, cameras, news and reviews

Gaming

Video games news, reviews, rumors, PS3, Xbox360, Wii, PC, DSi and PSP

Home Entertainment

Latest entertainment technology news, HDTVs, media, audio and video …

PCs

Desktops, data storage, softwares and networking …

Home » Apple, Mobile, iPhone

Not really a big surprise: iPhone multitasking to use “Expose-like” interface

Submitted by admin on April 1, 2010 – 5:11 amNo Comment

346419e7a4expose.jpg Not really a big surprise: iPhone multitasking to use “Expose like” interface

We know iPhone OS 4 is in the pipes, and I imagine this little nugget of information is far from the only inklings we’ll have of new iPhone features over the next few months. Despite the extraordinary length of the Apple Insider article , there’s really only one piece of new information: the iPhone will be using an Expose-like interface to let you switch between apps, though due to scaling issues it is apparently only using the apps’ icons and not current screenshots. It’ll be triggered, they say, by quickly tapping the home button twice. Not terribly exciting, but it’s good to know. Personally, I still find Palm’s card approach the most accessible multi-tasking around. If this Expose thing works, I’m sure it’ll be convenient, but will it have the amount of power a true task manager should have, or is it just going to be quicker than hitting home once and finding the app yourself?

Read more mobilecrunch

Related Posts:

  1. iPhone rumor two-pack: multitasking gestures and MobileMe Photo Streams?
  2. Business Card Reader iPhone app
  3. iPhone 4 Review
  4. Chrome Beta Gets Acceleration, WebGL, Google Instant, Expose Tabs, And More
  5. This Week’s Best iPhone Apps [IPhone Apps]

Leave a comment!

Add your comment below, or trackback from your own site. You can also subscribe to these comments via RSS.

Be nice. Keep it clean. Stay on topic. No spam.

You can use these tags:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

This is a Gravatar-enabled weblog. To get your own globally-recognized-avatar, please register at Gravatar.