About:
Pygame is a set of Python extension modules designed for writing games. The core of pygame is wrapped on top of the SDL library.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
pygame.mask was added for collision masks. pygame.scrap was added for clipboard support. New and improved sprite groups were added. Blending support was added for filling and blitting surfaces. Surfaces may be saved as JPEG and PNG. Buffer access was added for Surface and Sound objects. Numpy support was added for pygame.surfarray and pygame.pixelarray. An MMX optimized smoothscale function was added. Many bugfixes and minor improvements were made in nearly all areas.

Author:
Pete Shinners [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.60/10.00 (14 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.pygame.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.8.0release.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://pygame.org/whatsnew.shtml
Debian package:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/python/python-pygame
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://www.pygame.org/info.shtml#cvs
Mailing list archive:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
[Operating System]		BeOS, MacOS X, Microsoft :: Windows, POSIX :: BSD, POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		Python
[Topic]		Games/Entertainment, Multimedia :: Graphics, Multimedia :: Sound/Audio, Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

Dependencies: [change]
Python (required)
Simple DirectMedia Layer (required)
SDL_image (recommended)
SDL_mixer (recommended)
SDL_ttf (recommended)
SMPEG (recommended)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.8	30-Mar-2008	GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.8	Major feature enhancements	30-Mar-2008 09:42
1.7.1	Minor bugfixes	16-Aug-2005 23:04
1.6	Minor bugfixes	23-Oct-2003 14:12
1.5.6	Minor feature enhancements	14-Jun-2003 10:23
1.5.5	Minor feature enhancements	24-Dec-2002 18:46
1.5.3	Minor bugfixes	04-Sep-2002 01:00
1.5.2	Minor bugfixes	14-Aug-2002 20:31
1.5	Major feature enhancements	30-May-2002 13:05
1.4	Minor feature enhancements	31-Jan-2002 22:54
1.3	Minor feature enhancements	19-Dec-2001 23:44

 Articles referencing this project

• Python Projects
  by Ryan Kulla , in Editorials
  Sat, Nov 17th 2001 00:00
  

 Comments

[»] pygame
by gt3 - Sep 4th 2001 22:01:06

If you want to start writing fun and portable, games *now*.. I can't think of anything better to use than Pygame. Oh and it's also great for application programming too ;)

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[»] Re: pygame
by David Clark - Sep 4th 2001 23:38:42

Ahh, so true. I've been writing code with pygame ever since its first release more than a year ago. It's stable, aggressively maintained and very well documented. I'd recommend that anyone who's interested in developing cross-platform games in python give it a try.

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