What PyGame is??
PyGame is Python extension of great C library for games - SDL. Its provide almost every thing you will need to program games from simple tetris-like to Civilization 4 or 3D shooters. It can manage 2D graphic, music, input, fonts, collision detection, 3D graphic by OpenGL enabling, Joystick, movies and much much more.
PyGame was meant to be simple and powerful as SDL is. But it is a bit better than SDL because it also takes advantage of Python programing language.
What Python is ??
Python is easy, powerful scriptable language which change the way programmers can develop their programs.
New to game programming ??
Don't worry there always must be the first time. I've started too. Python is a good language to start game programing with. And with PyGame you will learn that game programing is demanding and fascinating. And possible to overcome first troubles and amounto of knowledge to study.
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Tutorial
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Book
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Forum
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Technical note.
I will not teach you Python I will focus on PyGame only. Visit links section and go to Python main site to learn more about it. However you do not have to be Python expert to understand material covered in this site.
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