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| Developer | The FIFE Team |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Natural language(s) | English |
| Genre | game engine |
| License | GNU General Public License 2.0 or newer |
| Website | http://www.fifengine.de/ |
In computer gaming, FIFE (Flexible Isometric Fallout(-like) Engine) is a game engine intended to be a development platform for the creation of isometric games. The emphasis lies on easing the work for the game creators by offering them a way to write their custom game code completely in the Python scripting language. As the name states, it is inspired by the game engines used in the Fallout series, and even supports some of the Fallout 1 and 2 game assets. FIFE is written in C++ & Python, using the cross-platform SDL media library. FIFE currently compiles and runs under Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), FIFE is free software.
History
The FIFE project was founded by members of a similar project called IanOut. IanOut was not released under a GPL compatible license, the preferred license for the new project, which prevented a direct source code fork; additionally, the FIFE team believed that there were inherent design flaws in ianOut. Having considered the time consuming nature of fixing such the design flaw and the legal uncertainty of forking ianOut, the FIFE team agreed to start their work from scratch.
