dressupgeekout/pk2

Pekka Kana 2, a platformer game

Copyright (c) 2003 Janne Kivilahti

Ported to SDL by Samuli Tuomola (2010) https://github.com/stt/pk2

Translated and ported to SDL2 by Danilo Lemos (2016-2020)

"Pekka Kana 2 (Pekka the Rooster 2) is a jump 'n run game made in the spirit of old classic platformers such as Super Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, Jazz Jackrabbit, Super Frog and so on." http://kiwi.mbnet.fi/pistegamez/pk2/

This repository contains the source code and resource files for the game Pekka Kana 2 created by Janne Kivilahti in 2003. The source code was released by the original author on a forum thread.

Since then a lot of things changed, including an initial SDL port by Samuli Tuomola in 2010 and then the SDL2 port, bug fixes, and code redesign by Danilo Lemos (2016-2020).

This game was tested on Windows, GNU/Linux and Android.

Binary distibution

See the game's page at Itch.io.

Compiling

Windows

To compile on Windows, you will need the mingw c++ compiler with SDL2, Zip and Lua libs. There is a Makefile on /mingw/i686/ that defines the needed stuff and include /mingw/mingw.mk. Edit the /mingw/i686/Makefile as you need and run Make on this directory.

Debian

To compile Pekka Kana 2 into Debian GNU/Linux based distributions, you need the SDL2, SDL2_image, SDL2_mixer, Zip and Lua libraries installed on the system. To get everything you need, just run the following command on the terminal:

$ apt install build-essential libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libzip-dev liblua5.4-dev

Then run the "make" command inside the "Pekka Kana 2" directory.

$ make

The PK2 binary will be in "bin/" directory.

$ ./bin/pekka-kana-2

To make the removal, within the compiled directory, execute this command:

$ make clean

Android

Run git submodule init then git submodule update to get the SDL libs. Then ./gradlew build on android/ with the SDK and the NDK installed may work.

macOS - not tested

Use Homebrew to install SDL2 packages:

brew install sdl2 sdl2_gfx sdl2_image sdl2_mixer

Now just clone the code and run make on pk2 directory, the PK2 binary will be in bin/ directory.

User made episodes:

http://mapstore.the.cz/ To add a new episode, just download the zip and put it inside "mapstore/" on local data.

The game can be started with the "dev" argument to enable the cheats and "test" following by the episode and level to open directly on the level.

This example starts the level13.map on dev mode:

./pekka-kana-2 dev test "rooster island 2/level13.map"

FIXMEs

• Android import zip, delete zip, zip file on save (can't load save with no zip)
• New graphics and controllers menu
• SDL_QUIT on Android
• Autosave settings option, ask when overwriting save, select save on new game
• Low volume sounds not played on low volume - music playing on volume 0
• Jump frames when fps is low
• Better sound quality

PLANS

• Loading languages from zip files and all.txt
• Speed-run mode (frame counter, ghost)
• Better documentation
• Implement new layer on .map (regions)
• Find image (load .bmp or .png)
• New weather
• High resolution mode

V1.5

• 64bit release
• Better error handling (remove PK2_Error)
• Multi line info sign
• New HQx (OpenGL)?
• OpenGL ES
• Edit controller position
• Faster item tab
• Lua screen
• Chick system