Re: [pygame] Beginner Question

[Zack Baker <zbaker1398@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lenard, I checked out the link for the Mac installer for pygame because I'm VERY interested in pygame on Mac for 3.x. If you could direct me to a link for that ( if it exists I would be incredibly grateful) thanks!!!

-Zack


On Jan 9, 2012, at 3:14 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>