Pygame is a set of python modules written to help create games in Python. The package is wrapped around SDL and several of the SDL daughter libraries. There are currently several released open source games and applications built with Pygame. Version 1.1 adds a large list of features and cleanup bugfixes.

Highlights of Pygame features are listed: (items with an asterisk "*" are new for Pygame 1.1)

• * Full OpenGL support through pyopengl
• * Transform module for image scaling, rotation, and flips
• Image loading from many formats, with alpha and colorkeys
• Streaming music data; mp3, mod, ogg (and more)
• CDROM support with audio playback
• Joystick input handling
• Antialiased Truetype font rendering
• Multiple sound channel mixer
• Cross platform (with multiple video backends on each platform)

  The package also comes with complete documentation, tutorials, and many playable examples. There is an active mailing list and IRC channel, which makes getting started much more accessible.

  Pygame takes SDL's C interface and turns it into a more pythonic package, with objects, exceptions, and other utility modules.

  Aside from compiling and installing from source, there is also a full installer for Windows, RPM support for Linux, and a separate DEB and unofficial apt repository for Debian. For FreeBSD there is an active port available. A compressed archive with the compiled binaries is available for MacOS, and coming soon for BeOS.

  License: free