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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Xbox 360 to add Hulu?

Submitted by admin on June 2, 2010 – 11:10 pmNo Comment

c612578bbaox 360.jpg Xbox 360 to add Hulu?

From DVR to On-Demand, more and more TV viewers are choosing when they get to watch their favorite programs. The greater question has been how you’ll be able to get all the other content to your screen — stuff like Netflix and Hulu. If you have an Xbox, the latter problem may be a thing of the past. Gear Live reportedly got their hands on some information about Microsoft’s upcoming announcements at E3. Citing a reliable source that “has never been wrong before”, GL states that Hulu is in fact coming to the Xbox platform . No word about pricing – if any, but undoubtedly – or even how they will charge . I hope that the entire catalog gets released, unlike Netflix’s limited release . We’ll know more in two weeks when E3 begins, and more precisely during Microsoft’s Media Briefing on June 14 th at 10am pacific time.

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