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, …

Read the full story »
Apple

Latest Apple products news, iPod, iPhone, iTunes, Mac …

Digital Cameras

Digital camcorders, cameras, news and reviews

Gaming

Video games news, reviews, rumors, PS3, Xbox360, Wii, PC, DSi and PSP

Home Entertainment

Latest entertainment technology news, HDTVs, media, audio and video …

PCs

Desktops, data storage, softwares and networking …

Home » Gaming

Japanese hardware sales, Aug. 9 – Aug. 15: Going Places edition

Submitted by admin on August 22, 2010 – 10:58 pmNo Comment

04bf89baf4derimg.jpg Japanese hardware sales, Aug. 9   Aug. 15: Going Places editionFacebook rolled out new functionality this week to allow your “friends” an even deeper look into where you are at all times, with Facebook Places. The service allows you to let people know where you are on the fly, much like FourSquare — unfortunately, due to an automatic setting allowing friends to “tag” where you are, people found themselves appearing in places that they actually weren’t.

For instance, this post’s author found himself falsely spotted in Japan, looking at their hardware sales — and that’s a straight lie! We have to imagine it was those delightful fellows at Media Create, pulling a fast one on us. They were, in fact, actually looking at the last week’s hardware sales in Japan. See the proof for yourself, just after the break.

- PSP: 35,734 5,337 (17.56%)
- PS3: 33,057 4,427 (15.46%)
- DSi LL: 27,923 6,905 (32.85%)
- Wii: 25,072 6,834 (37.47%)
- DSi: 24,850 6,523 (35.66%)
- Xbox 360: 5,065 574 (-10.18%)
- DS Lite: 4,809 437 (10.00%)
- PS2: 1,675 151 (9.91%)
- PSP Go: 608 100 (-14.12%)

Read: The social network archives

Related Posts:

  1. Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 1 – Feb. 7: Valentiney edition
  2. Japanese hardware sales, November 28 – December 4: Feel-good edition
  3. Japanese hardware sales, August 1 – August 8: The end of video games edition
  4. Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 11 – Jan. 18: Everyone loses edition
  5. Japanese hardware sales, August 29 – September 4: Joystiq joystick edition

Comments are closed.