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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Avatar Blu-ray Sales Now Total 6.2m [Movies]

Submitted by admin on May 12, 2010 – 9:00 amNo Comment

ca5c17c4a1arcash.jpg Avatar Blu ray Sales Now Total 6.2m [Movies]6.2million people are officially nuts. That’s the conclusion I’ve come to after hearing Avatar’s now sold 6.2million Blu-ray copies in the first three weeks since launch—that’s a steady climb since the 2.7million sold in the first four days.

6.2million Blu-rays in total, and 13.5million DVD sales. Let’s sit on those figures for a while. These are sales from the last three weeks of release, from people who most likely know that the 3D Blu-ray and special edition Blu-ray will be coming out later this year/early next year.

Fair enough, maybe those people couldn’t wait to watch it. But why not see it at the cinema? Even if they had already seen it at the cinema, why bother plunking $40 down on a Blu-ray which—and let’s be honest—won’t be viewed more than once or twice this year.

Just to compare those numbers, Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight racked up 16million sales of both Blu-ray and DVDs together, 3.7million less than James Cameron’s Avatar. [Deadline via Blu-ray.com]

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