pyxel

Hi HN, I'm the creator of Pyxel, a free, MIT-licensed retro game engine for Python. I've been developing it since 2018, and it recently passed 18,000 stars on GitHub. Pyxel includes pixel art, tilemap, sound, and music editors, so you can create a game's visuals and audio as well as write its code in Python. The engine itself is implemented in Rust. Games run on Windows, macOS, Linux, and the web, as well as supported Linux-based retro handhelds. You can share a URL to launch a Pyxel game hosted on GitHub directly in a browser. You can also create games entirely in your browser with Pyxel Code Maker, or write chiptunes in Pyxel MML Studio. See what people have made with Pyxel: https://kitao.github.io/pyxel-user-examples/ Try Code Maker: https://kitao.github.io/pyxel/web/code-maker/ I'm happy to answer questions about the engine and its im

Title should say it's 13 years old and currently unmaintained. BTW: a modern, maintained alternative (With Python instead of Lua) would be Pyxel (https://github.com/kitao/pyxel -> discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40899520).

If pygamelib interests you, you might also be interested in Pyxel: https://github.com/kitao/pyxel

Nice work, gives me very Micro Machines vibes for the NES. The only thing I don't like about PICO-8 is that its completely closed source. An open source alternative that seems very promising is Pyxel. It has similar retro / pixel art limitations, a built-in sprite editor, music tracker, etc. https://github.com/kitao/pyxel

https://github.com/kitao/pyxel - "A retro game engine for Python", is quite popular in the education sphere, AFAICT.

There's also these: - https://github.com/kitao/pyxel (Python) - https://github.com/minigdx/tiny (Lua)

I'm pretty sure you have to use lua with PICO-8, last I looked at it there wasn't a way to plug in your own language. You could look at TIC-80 and WASM with micropython compiling to WASM (or even full python). Or... just use a python tool inspired by PICO-8: https://github.com/kitao/pyxel

There's also Pyxel: https://github.com/kitao/pyxel Similar, but no paid version at all, and you can write as much Python as you want.

Another one in Python. Also cool: https://github.com/kitao/pyxel

Pyxel: https://github.com/kitao/pyxel