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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Is this the Droid 2’s keyboard?

Submitted by admin on May 30, 2010 – 10:27 pmNo Comment

3e0141f20bdroid2.jpg Is this the Droid 2’s keyboard?

Some cool cat over in Engadget ’s comments claims to have gotten a bit of hands on time with the totally not-yet-announced Droid 2, and was kind enough to bring back a pic to back up their story. The pic only shows the keyboard — but if it’s real, what a difference. They’ve dropped the mostly-useless D-Pad to increase the size of each key, while also bumping up the depth of the keys — which, given that the Droid 1’s keyboard was almost perfectly flat, is a massive upgrade.

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