Installing pygame

Martin McBride, 2021-03-04
Tags game development
Categories pygame

Installing pygame is quite easy, simply use pip:

pip install pygame

pygame doesn't have any additional dependencies so that should just work.

There is even a simple built-in game to check that things are working properly:

python3 -m pygame.examples.aliens

If you found this article useful, you might be interested in the book Computer Graphics in Python or other books by the same author.

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