Take a look at http://www.pygame.org/project-PyIgnition-1527-.html
( you don't need openGL. )
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Jake
And a couple more I bookmarked. There are possibly more on pygame.org.
http://www.pygame.org/project-gradients-307-.html
http://www.pygame.org/project-Pygame+Advance+Graphics+Library-660-.html
For explosions, winking starts, muzzle flash, etc. you could search for
spritesheets, which are cheap
I made a 3 level small snake game . It have used an animated blast shown
during the snake collision. For that purpose I used a small sprite sheet and
subsurface concept. Download the game and figure it out. Code is available
at http://code.google.com/p/hungry-snakes/downloads/list
On Sun, May