Pygame VS Pyxel

Pygame

Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games.

Pyxel

Retro game engine for Python inspired by fantasy consoles.

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Pygame and Pyxel)

Pyxel

Game Engine

58 58%

Game Engine

42% 42

Game Development

61 61%

Game Development

39% 39

3D Game Engine

100 100%

3D Game Engine

0% 0

Graph Databases

0 0%

Graph Databases

100% 100

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Reviews

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Pygame Reviews

Top 6 Python Framework for Game Development | by Ankur Kumar | unikaksha | Medium

Pygame is the most popular game development framework. It’s a Python wrapper building video games based on the SDL library. The SDL library allows cross-platform access to the system’s multimedia hardware, such as audio, video, the mouse, keyboard, and joystick. Because SDL and Pygame are cross-platform, they help develop games and rich multimedia Python programs on any...

Source: medium.com

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Pygame mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Pygame yet. Tracking of Pygame recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Pyxel mentions (26)

Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game
Nice work, gives me very Micro Machines vibes for the NES. The only thing I don't like about PICO-8 is that its completely closed source. An open source alternative that seems very promising is Pyxel. It has similar retro / pixel art limitations, a built-in sprite editor, music tracker, etc. https://github.com/kitao/pyxel. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
is python good for making games?
There's also game engines which are fun to use in python, like pyxel. Source: about 1 year ago
Web App Generation Feature Added to Pyxel, a Retro Game Engine for Python
A function to automatically generate an application launch URL has been added to Pyxel, a retro game engine for Python (https://github.com/kitao/pyxel please add your star to this repository!). Source: about 1 year ago
Is PyGame worth using?
It's fine. You might also enjoy working with Pyxel, which is a little more pixellated and fun and not exactly "classically production ready" either. (I mean, games like Papers, Please could be programmed in Pygame, but that's about it). Source: over 1 year ago
Python Alternative to Pygame similar to LÖVE ?
PySDL2(lower level than Love) and Pyxel(more like PICO-8 but scripted with Python). Source: over 1 year ago