2014-01-01 Frameworks for games in Python
Implementing a simple game in Python is not too difficult if you consider using a module such as pygame. With the multiplicity of devices (computers, laptop, tablets, phones), we may wonder whether or not the same code will work on many of them. So far, I was able to find a couple of modules to implement a game. I mean display graphics, play music or videos, intercept events coming from the mouse or the keyboard:
- pygame: very popular and bullet proof but it does not work with touchscreen (it is based on SDL). There is no dependency.
- pysdl2: the development seems quite active, it is based on SDL2 which needs to be retrieved first. It can handle touchscreens.
- pyglet: offers similar functionalities, however, the development does not seem to be very active.
- PySide: very similar to pyqt, the licence is different and gives more freedom.
However, there exist others solutions. They might need more effort to be used but they seem promising as they could really make deployment on many platform easy. kivy seems very promising. A game implemented with that framework can be deployed on Linux, Windows, Android, iOS. It is also available on Raspberry Pi. kivy allows the programmer to interact the same way with any device. The last one I found is pythonista. It was designed to easily implement Python programs on iOS (iPad), not necessarily games. It only works with Python 2.7 but I hope Python 3.x will be soon supported.
A last solution would be to use a HTML/Javascript solution packaged in a service but maybe, it goes beyond python and the scope of this post.
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Xavier Dupré
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