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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Check Out What Could Become The UK’s Tallest Bridge [Bridge]

Submitted by admin on July 19, 2010 – 7:31 pmNo Comment

Stephen Spence’s innovative design will soon be turned into the UK’s tallest bridge, rivaling some of today’s skyscrapers. View it from multiple angles in this video clip.

This new suspension bridge, whose tall, arched white towers look a bit like a boat’s billowing sails, will span the River Wear in Sunderland. When the structure is built, it will become the UK’s tallest bridge, at 190 meters (or just over 623 feet), and will span about 1,063 feet. Although, it doesn’t trump The Shard, which, when completed in 2012, will be 1017 feet tall (but that’s technically a skyscraper, with 72 stories).

b7f477a0d8idge 1.jpg Check Out What Could Become The UKs Tallest Bridge [Bridge] The endeavor is budgeted at over $203 million, with two years of construction getting under way in 2012.
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