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by notpygame 2062 days ago
Hello. pygame volunteer here.

Here's some awesome libraries and frameworks that work with or are built on top of pygame.

pygame_gui - gui elements for pygame.

pymunk - 2d physics library. Lots of examples, very well maintained.

Thorpy - a GUI library for pygame.

pyscroll - Scrolling maps. Fast scrolling images easy.

pyTMX - Reads Tiled Map Editors TMX maps. Can use a Map editor easily.

spritesheetlib - loading sprite sheets.

animation - Tasks and tweening using pygame groups. No framework needed to smoothly move sprites or execute things over time.

pyknic - collection of useful tools (tweening, animation, context, timing, fonts, spritesystem, skeleton, ...) for games.

pytmxloader - Map loader for tmx files

pygame-text - Greatly simplifies drawing text with the pygame.font module.

Wasabi2d - cutting edge python game framework.

pgzero - game framework built on top of pygame. Intended for education.

moderngl - Modern OpenGL bindings for python. pygame-menu - A menu for pygame, simple, lightweight and easy to use.

1 comments

Can recommend PyScroll / PyTMX - made it very easy to make an RTS interface: https://github.com/EamonnMR/OpenLockstep