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				<p><b>FIFE</b> is a free, open-source cross-platform game engine.
				It features hardware-accelerated 2D graphics, integrated GUI, audio
				support, lighting, map editor supporting top-down and isometric maps,
				pathfinding, virtual filesystem and more!</p>
				<p>The core is written in C++ which means that it is highly portable.
				FIFE currently supports Windows, Linux and Mac.</p>
				<p>Games utilizing FIFE are programmed through Python scripting layer
				on top of the base C++ API. Games can be also programmed using the
				C++ layer directly.</p>
				<p>FIFE is open-sourced under the terms of the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html">LGPL license</a> so you can freely use
				it in non-commercial and commercial projects.</p>
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					<li><a href="http://docs.fifengine.net/user-manual/en/#_features">Features</a></li>
					<li><a href="https://github.com/fifengine/fifengine/wiki">Developer Wiki</a></li>
					<li><a href="https://github.com/fifengine/cpp-tutorials">C++ Tutorials</a></li>
					<li><a href="https://github.com/fifengine/python-tutorials">Python Tutorials</a></li>
					<li><a href="https://github.com/fifengine/fifengine/wiki/Downloads">Downloads</a></li>
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