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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Trine gets free DLC with Steam patch, Frozenbyte ‘not sure’ if it’s heading to PS3

Submitted by admin on April 21, 2010 – 3:54 pmNo Comment

2865d8a7cf580px.jpg Trine gets free DLC with Steam patch, Frozenbyte not sure if its heading to PS3

This weekend, while you were working on the wizard outfit that will finally complete your cosplay group’s Trine collective, Steam was busy updating the PC version of the game with free content. According to the Steam news page, Trine received a free DLC level named “Path to New Dawn” as a post-completion bonus this past Sunday. Additionally, a handful of minor updates were made to the game itself, ranging from new information on “experience and secrets in the inventory menu” to fixing a “respawn bug in [the] Iron Forge level (in co-op) near the first gate.”

Unfortunately, it appears that the release of this new content in the PS3 version isn’t a sure thing. “At the moment we’re not sure if the free DLC is going to get released on PSN,” developer Frozenbyte told Joystiq. “It’s not in our direct control but we’d love to get it released and are trying to make that happen — but at this point it’s hard to say how it will play out. Same goes for the price as well.” When we pushed for info about any additional DLC in the pipeline, we were told, “There’s no immediate plans on any platform. That said, if you have completed Trine on your PC, then I’d suggest completing this extra level as well, collecting all the 10 purple potions …” You should probably do that if you’re in a position to go potion-hunting.

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