Pygame
Sign in to savePygame is a cross-platform set of Python modules designed for writing video games. It includes computer graphics and sound libraries designed to be used with the Python programming language.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Pygame
- Software.logo
- Pygame logo.svg
- Software.logo size
- 250px
- Software.author
- Lenard Lindstrom, René Dudfield, Pete Shinners, Nicholas Dudfield, Thomas Kluyver, and others
- Software.developer
- Pygame Community
- Software.latest release version
- 2.6.1
- Software.programming language
- C, Python, Cython, and Assembly
- Software.operating system
- Cross-platform
- Software.genre
- API
- Software.license
- GNU Lesser General Public License
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Official website
- www.pygame.org
- Image
- Pygame - Hello World.png
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- programmed in
- Python
- Commons category
- Pygame
- copyright license
- GNU Lesser General Public License
- source code repository URL
- github.com/pygame/pygame
- software version identifier
- 2.6.1
- publication date
- 2000-10-22
- social media followers
- 363
- operating system
- macOS
- depends on software
- Simple DirectMedia Layer
- issue tracker URL
- github.com/pygame/pygame/issues
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/pygame
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Development of version 2
- Features
- Community
- Sample code
- Notable games using Pygame
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Pygame is a cross-platform set of Python modules designed for writing video games. It includes computer graphics and sound libraries designed to be used with the Python programming language.
==History== Pygame was originally written by Pete Shinners to replace PySDL after its development stalled. It has been a community project since 2000 and is released under the free software GNU Lesser General Public License (which "provides for Pygame to be distributed with open source and commercial software").
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pygame” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.