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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Droid 2 Cases arrive at Best Buy, sans Droid 2

Submitted by admin on July 31, 2010 – 7:30 amNo Comment

c485887b0509x280.jpg Droid 2 Cases arrive at Best Buy, sans Droid 2This is a picture from a Best Buy, and it is a case for the Motorola Droid 2.

This of course leads to the question: what about the Droid 2? Well, the release date is August 12, and it supposedly has Froyo right out of the box.

We’ll be seeing the Droid 2 pretty soon, and that R2-D2 edition too.

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