On 09/01/12 11:52 AM, Ryan Strunk wrote:
Hello everyone,
I've been learning Python for about a year now, and I wanted to get more
seriously into developing audio games. I was told that Pygame is a good
package to look at, so I installed it on my machine and joined this list. On
looking at python.org, however, it appears as though there have been no
major updates since 2009. I've heard tell of a new version of Pygame that
runs with later versions of Python, but I can't seem to find much
information on it. So I'm curious if:
1. Pygame is still actively being maintained/expanded, and
2. if not, what libraries are people using to develop games.
Thank you much for any help you can provide.
Best,
Ryan
Hi Ryan,
Welcome to the Pygame mailing list. The Pygame project is still alive.
Currently the project is being moved to Bitbucket:
bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame , so development has slowed down a bit. The
reason for a long delay between releases is that people are encouraged
to try the current snapshot. Reasonably up-to-date Windows installers
can be found at http://thorbrian.com/pygame/builds.php . The OS X builds
are older. I have provided Python 2.7 and 3.2 installers at
http://www3.telus.net/len_l/pygame . For Linux it is best to build it
from source, and take advantage of all the most recent features and bug
fixes.
Lenard Lindstrom
