Pygame, as of 1.9, has a camera module that allows you to capture images, watch live streams, and do some basic computer vision. This tutorial covers those use cases.

When you import pygame all available pygame submodules are automatically imported. Be aware that some of the pygame modules are considered optional, and may not be available.

Pygame may be easy to learn, but the world of graphics programming can be pretty confusing to the newcomer. I wrote this to try to distill the practical knowledge I've gained over the past year or so of …

Over the next weeks we have plenty of game jams that people from the pygame communities take part in. The pygames hackathon runs from March 20th, 2023 to April 17th 2023, and is open to people in …

Compiling and installing pygame is handled by Python's distutils. Pygame also comes with some scripts to automatically configure the flags needed to build pygame.

Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games. It is written on top of the excellent SDL library. This allows you to create fully featured games and multimedia programs in the python …

Pygame will automatically determine the image type (e.g., GIF or bitmap) and create a new Surface object from the data. In some cases it will need to know the file extension (e.g., GIF images should …

When calling pygame.display.set_mode() with the pygame.OPENGL flag, Pygame automatically handles setting the OpenGL attributes like color and double-buffering. OpenGL offers several other …

Changed in pygame 2.0.0: Added support for keyword arguments. Nothing is drawn when the radius is 0 (a pixel at the center coordinates used to be drawn when the radius equaled 0). Floats, and Vector2 …

The pygame website has full reference documentation for every pygame function and tutorials for all ranges of users. The pygame source comes with many examples of things like monkey punching …