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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Zynga buys social games developer Challenge Games

Submitted by admin on June 4, 2010 – 2:57 amNo Comment

6c86184dd2580px.jpg Zynga buys social games developer Challenge Games
Zynga makes FarmVille, which, in turn, makes it a lot of money. Today the company announced that it has used some of said moolah to purchase Challenge Games, a social games developer in Austin, TX. The exact amount of simoleons it cost Zynga to do so wasn’t disclosed.

Challenge Games, which created and operates two Facebook games, Warstorm and the disturbingly titled Ponzi, will henceforth be known as Zynga Austin, joining the company’s studios in Baltimore, Bangalore, Beijing, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Zynga will continue to run both Challenge Games … games, and probably wants you to stop reading this and get back to playing FarmVille right about now.

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