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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Apple says goodbye to design firm that helped develop some Apple products

Submitted by admin on August 28, 2010 – 6:29 amNo Comment

9c602f29e7944539.jpg Apple says goodbye to design firm that helped develop some Apple productsThe New York Times reports that Apple and SurfaceInk have parted ways after the small Silicon Valley developer showed off a tablet design to some potential clients. Apple obviously didn’t like one of its partners demonstrating a product that could become a competitive threat, so out the door they went.

The Times quotes founder and Chief Executive Eric Bauswell as saying that SurfaceInk and Apple had “gone separate directions.”

SurfaceInk was founded in 1999, and has worked for Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Palm.

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