[pygame] Announcement: alpha version of Archy released

[Atul Varma <varmaa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Over the past several months, I've been working on a project with the
Raskin Center for Humane Interfaces called "Archy".  This project uses
pygame for all of its multimedia functionality; put simply, the
library has been indispensable in our development.

Specifically, pygame has been very useful because it allows us to
access the multimedia functionality of the underlying operating system
at a very low level--this is of fundamental importance to us, because
while we're not developing a game, we are developing a completely new
user interface "from scratch": our application has no widgets, no
hotkeys, no pull-down menus or anything else that standard GUI
frameworks have.  As such, libraries like wxPython were far too
constraining for us, and pygame offered us the freedom we needed to
re-invent the way people get their work done from the ground up.

Today, the alpha version of Archy was released; you can find out more
about it at our website if you're interested:

  http://www.raskincenter.org

- Atul