Fenix

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A retro style 2D platformer made in Fenix

Fenix is an easy to use interpreted language designed primarily for 2D games.

1 About Fenix
2 Features
3 A small language example
4 Games made using Fenix
5 Fenix programming resources

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About Fenix

Its main feature, is the pseudo-parallel programming similar to Coroutines, i.e. it gives the developer the chance of programming different processes (enemies, characters, etc.) separately, and the engine will synchronize them. This makes video game developing much easier. Most of its features are now based on Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL). This makes Fenix a very portable project. Other features include full 2D support (scaling, transparencies, blend ops...), 16 bpp color, sound (.ogg, .mod, .it, .s3m, .wav), joystick support, mode7 and extensions via libraries.

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Features

Fast sprite blitting with rotation, scaling, animation and transparency
Pixel perfect collisions
PNG graphic support plus a custom archive format (.fpg)
Parallax background scrolling
Compiled for Windows, Mac, Linux (including GP2X console) and many more systems
OGG, WAV and MOD/XM/S3M/IT sound support
Based on SDL

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A small language example

program fenixexample;
global
    int png_ship;
begin
    // Load a PNG graphic (alternatively could use an FPG archive)
    png_ship = load_png("example.png");

    // Create a process of type "spacecraft"
    spacecraft(100, 100);

    repeat
        frame;
    until(key(_esc))
end

// "graph" (graphic), "x" and "y" are predefined local variables
process spacecraft(x, y)
private
    int health;
begin
    graph = png_ship;
    health = 100;

    loop
        if (key(_left))
            x -= 4;
        end
        if (key(_right))
            x += 4;
        end
        if (collision(type enemy))
           health -= 20;
        end
        frame;
    end
end

process enemy()
begin
// You get the idea ;)
end

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