For more in depth reference, check out the Tutorials section below, check out a video tutorial (I'm a fan of this one), or reference the API documentation by module.

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.

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 …

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 …

Use the functions pygame.display.mode_ok(), pygame.display.list_modes(), and pygame.display.Info() to query detailed information about the display. Once the display Surface is created, the functions …

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Pygame requires Python; if you don't already have it, you can download it from python.org. It's recommended to run the latest python version, because it's usually faster and has better features …

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 …

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 …

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