🐍 Can You Really Write Games in Python?

Python may not be the first language that comes to mind for game development, but it’s definitely possible!

Python is quite popular in data science, and well… everywhere else. But there’s one place where Python isn’t the first thing you’d think of. And by that I mean programming video games. You’d use rather C++, C# or Java to write games among other programming languages.

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In this article I want to share my findings from the research of this topic. As it occurs, you can. Actually there are resources to help you with that. For example PyGame.

It’s a wrapper for SDL library to provide cross-platform access to hardware, making developing games easier. Here’s an interesting tutorial how you can actually start off by downloading an example and working your way up.

Source: https://github.com/kitao/pyxel

There’s also pixel game engine called Pyxel.

Also I’ve found a 3D game engine called Panda3D.