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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Video: German Fembot AILA

Submitted by admin on September 10, 2010 – 6:33 amNo Comment

e614ae9406aila.jpg Video: German Fembot AILA

When we showed you AILA [GER] for the first time back in April , the only video material available of the robotic female from Germany wasn’t exactly of great quality. But now her maker, the Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI/German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence), has shot and uploaded a new, better, and slightly longer (2.42 min.) video. To recap, AILA stands 170cm tall and boasts these features: 18 joints in the body, a stereo camera, a 3D camera, and three laser sensors. There are RFID antennas in her hands that help her identify, grab and move objects. She can “autonomously” move around on a 12 DOF mobile base, but as you can see in the new video embedded below, AILA is still pretty slow. Via Plastic Pals

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