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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Samsung exec already has next Tablet planned

Submitted by admin on September 2, 2010 – 4:49 pmNo Comment

b122394e2a80x112.jpg Samsung exec already has next Tablet plannedNow that the Galaxy Tab was on prominent display at IFA, it is going to be quite a cool thing.

Apparently, a Samsung head of product planning named WP Hong is already making the next model. This new one is apparently being called the Honeycomb, but that could refer to the operating system which it uses.

After all, Android 2.2 is known as Froyo, and Android 3.0 is Gingerbread. By the way, the Tab is going to get an update to Gingerbread.

I’m sure we’ll be seeing more on this later.

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