Pekka Kana 2

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Pekka Kana 2 (Peter the Rooster 2) is a Finnish game made by Janne Kivilahti from Piste Gamez. It’s a classic platformer without anything too fancy. What makes this game unique is its source code. Over a decade ago, the original source code was released. It was written in a quite dated C/C++ style using DirectDraw, which is nothing new. What’s actually peculiar is that every variable name and comment itself was written… in Finnish.

One day, some guy made a port to SDL, and another one ported that port to SDL2. So now, you can play it on a modern system, cross-platform. My goal is a bit weirder. I want to translate it to English code in all of its glory. For now, it’s mostly done. I’d say it’s 90% complete. After that, I was planning to release the translated source code and take a peek at refactoring.