Python Games

See also: GameProgramming

Resources

• pygame.org - home of the PyGame module and a portal with links to lots of Python games

• PyWeek is a bi-annual programming challenge that produces several great games

Libraries

• Pyglet - pyglet is an opengl only cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python.

• Python-Ogre - a complete python wrapper for the OGRE 3D engine, plus 15 other graphics and gaming related libraries for GUI, Physics, special effects, sound and more

• Panda3d Full featured open source 3d engine specifically for python but written in c++. Features: performance, scene graph, export/import pipeline, 3D Audio, collision detection, physics, unusual I/O devices, animations, networking ... and many more.

• Blender3D is an open source game engine, modeler, animator and 3D renderer under the GNU GPL license. Uses Python as scripting language. (Portuguese translation: é um motor de jogo, modelador, animador e renderizador 3D opensource sobre a licença GNU GPL. Usa Python como linguagem de script.)

• GGZ Gaming Zone is a cross-desktop gaming integration platform with a python package, including GGZBoard and others

• Peace Engine engine for 3d simulation and rendering system.

• ika is a game engine built on top of SDL with Verge as an ancestor

• Pyrr - a new python wrapper for the irrlicht game engine

• FIFE - a cross platform 2.5d game creation framework with support for different isometric perspectives.

Online Game Servers

• Evennia is a feature-liberal MUD codebase with Django and Twisted serving as the foundation.

• GrailMUD is a MUD codebase with an emphasis on separation of logic and content.

Specific Games

• Battle Field 2 and 2142 Is a strategy and first person shooter game that uses python for logic and server controls?

• BalazarBrothers is an action-puzzle 3D game with Python and Soya 3D

• EVE Online is a massively multiplayer online space game written in StacklessPython

• MyDarkSecret is an online Murder Mystery game written in Python and using Django

• OpenRTS is a multiplayer real-time strategy game written in Python using Pygame.

• pydance a high quality dance game created with pygame

• PySol is an exciting collection of more than 200 solitaire card games

• Sid Meier's Civilization IV is a strategy game which employs Boost Python and Python

• Slune is a racing 3D game with Python and Soya 3D

• SolarWolf an excellent action arcade game written with pygame

• Umbra is a semi-3D RPG written in Tkinter

• Interstate Outlaws is 3D RPG/FPS modeled after the classic Interstate '76 series using Crystalspace

• Evil Greg Vs. Eight Year Olds is an arcade game where you battle swarms of children.

• Disney's Toontown MMORPG game for kids using panda3d. Help the Toons save their city!

• Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean Online based on the movie using panda3d.

• SimOps Studios: Code3D recreate an event and see what it could be like virtually before experincing it in the real world. Using panda3d

• MSA's Thermal Enforcer Play as a law enforcement with thermal imaging technology. Using panda3d

• Little Mermaid Pinball, Aladdin Pinball, and Pirates Pinball uses panda3d

• Traitors Gate 2 is a puzzle/adventure game that uses Python scripts for game logic.