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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Swype Input Interface Sneaks Into Windows 7 Demo [Swype]

Submitted by admin on July 18, 2010 – 1:32 pmNo Comment

The Swype text entry interface that’s been tearing up Android phones, World Records and maybe iPhones was spotted doing more of the same on a large touchscreen at the Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference. Spoiler: It looks like Swype, but bigger:

915261e1eeswype.jpg Swype Input Interface Sneaks Into Windows 7 Demo [Swype]It is only a demo, and there’s not even a wisp of an inkling that there’s a partnership brewing between Microsoft and Swype Inc. (the chaps behind the technology), but in any event at about three minutes in the demo gets going in earnest and you can judge for yourself.

Please note: The source link video site requires Silverlight, but the image above, gleaned from Engadget, shows a snapshot of the interface in action on an 3M M2256PW ten-finger multitouch display. [Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference via Engadget]

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