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’s Jon Rubinstein: WebOS 2.0 coming “later this year”

Submitted by admin on July 23, 2010 – 10:03 pmNo Comment

5522a9f76f20x300.jpg Palm’s Jon Rubinstein: WebOS 2.0 coming “later this year”

When HP snatched up Palm, the webOS community feared the worst. Was webOS doomed to be shelved, with HP tearing Palm apart solely for their patents? Within days, however, HP confirmed that they had no plans to abandon webOS or Palm’s smartphone business — in fact, HP wanted to put webOS onto a bunch of other devices, like printers and tablets. Further proving that webOS isn’t dead, Jon Rubinstein just casually dropped a mention of “webOS 2.0″ on a panel at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference, saying that it’d be coming “later this year”. Alas, outside of the name (and that it’ll presumably contain at least some of the foundation for webOS-powered tablets), we don’t know a whole lot about it. What’s going to warrant the big jump up to version 2.0? Let us know your guesses down in the comments below.

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