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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Palm Pre Plus And Pixi Plus Now Available On O2 UK

Submitted by admin on May 28, 2010 – 4:24 pmNo Comment

 Palm Pre Plus And Pixi Plus Now Available On O2 UK

We already knew that O2 UK would be offering the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus sometime soon, and now the carrier has finally put the phones up on offer. While most folks are busy drooling over the recent HTC devices that have been making waves over in the UK, if you don’t want to follow the crowd and use Google’s Android OS, then webOS would be a nice alternative, wouldn’t it? In case you’re into dollars and cents, the Pixi Plus will be going for free with a

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