So, what you want for website design is something familiar which follows normal conventions. "Intuitive" really boils down to "like the stuff I've seen before". There's a lot of design decisions to the site that you just don't see anywhere else, and this causes confusion.
(Keep in mind, I do intend these comments to be constructive.)
- The categories have unconventional names. You'd expect About/Download/Documentation/Contribute/Community/News (much like
python.org), rather than show/learn/make/create/collaborate/awesome. The "show" column is under Create when you'd think it'd be under Show. Make and Create and Collaborate seem to all have things that would go under a "Contribute" or "Development" section.
- There is no clear "Download" link for downloading Pygame. You have to go to the "create" section, find the "downloads" column (this shouldn't take up an entire column) and click on "download.shtml" (a link that does not have a clear name). Confusingly, this goes back to a page in the old site style.
- There is no clear "Documentation" link. The "learn" section doesn't have a clear link to the API Reference. The "tutorials", "Cookbook", and "Resources" columns (aside from not having consistent casing) have overlapping contents. Sometimes they have links, other times they have text content (in a hard-to-read column). It's hard to find help.
- The section headings' background color has no margins and inconsistent capitalization (most are all lowercase, but About is capitalized).
- The column format is hard to read. Sliding the columns is confusing (no other conventional website does this) and unless I have my browser maximized it's easy to miss column. The transitions are slow and kind of nauseous to look at.
- The media player and keyboard arrow keys take up important real estate at the top of the page, but these aren't important enough to have such a prime spot.
- The navigation names for the top bar are unconventional and confusing. I don't know what "show" really means, "learn" is normally called "Documentation", "make" is normally called "Contribute", and the create/collaborate/awesome seem to be three forms of miscellaneous.
- The search results page is hard to read, there's no separation between the results, and it seems to cut off early.
- In general there's way too much descriptive text up front. The front page should mostly just be links to other pages with more detailed information.
The navigation is the most serious problem, and why I think the entire design doesn't work. The columns may work on mobile, but on the desktop it looks squished and the sliding transition is slow and disorientating. Something more conventional would work a lot better. See
python.org (which recently underwent a redesign) for an idea of what
pygame.org should be more like.
Again, I know this sounds harsh and I do point these out to be constructive. But a lot of these problems are so obvious and large that I don't think small adjustments can fix them. It reminds me of the car that Homer Simpson designed in that one episode of The Simpsons, where he had several cool ideas for what a car should be, but when put together it was completely unworkable. The old site design works much better, and I think any professional web designer would agree.