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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LG Rolling Out New Smart TVs At IFA

Submitted by admin on August 31, 2010 – 10:13 pmNo Comment

0da38e568e829813.jpg LG Rolling Out New Smart TVs At IFA

There is a war being waged by TV makers. A war against set-top boxes. See, TV makers like LG and Sony don’t want you going off and buying a Roku , or iTV , or what have you. So over the last couple years, they keep adding features to their TVs — apps, internet, weather, that kind of thing. LG’s latest, which it will be showing at IFA this next week, doesn’t look terribly different from the stuff we’ve seen from others, but the new control scheme might be fun. They seem to have some kind of Wiimote-like remote (the “Magic Motion Remote Control”), which you point at the screen to select this or that menu item or app. It’s not clear whether there’s a cursor or what, since all they sent out was a vague press release and the obligatory photo of a cute girl near the device. Look closely at those apps. “Fist-Aid.” Yeah, not really my scene, but thanks anyway, LG. We’ll see if we can get a hands-on…

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