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Pygame

Pygame is a set of modules designed for writing video games, or other multimedia programs in the Python 🗒️ programming language. It is built on top of the Simple DirectMedia Layer 🌐 library (SDL), and is meant to abstract the most common functions to make development faster / easier.

Pygame is highly portable and runs on almost every platform / operating system.

It is free and open-source, and distributed under a LGPL licence, meaning that anyone can create open source, freeware, shareware, or commercial games with it.

Install

Installation with pip:

pip install pygame

Installation instructions from official docs:

python3 -m pip install -U pygame --user

(the --user flag installs pygame into the home directory, instead of globally)

Usage

Simple example game structure:

import pygame

WIDTH, HEIGHT = 700, 500
WIN = pygame.display.set_mode((WIDTH, HEIGHT))
pygame.display.set_caption("Simple Game")
FPS = 60

def draw_screen():
    WIN.fill("blue")
    pygame.display.update()

def main():
    run = True
    clock = pygame.time.Clock()
    while run:
        clock.tick(FPS)
        for event in pygame.event.get():
            if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
                run = False

        draw_screen()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
  1. Import the pygame module with import pygame
  2. Set GUI window dimensions with pygame.display.set_mode()
  3. Set window title with pygame.display.set_caption()
  4. Update display with pygame.display.update()
  5. Create a “game loop” in a main() function