r/pygame • • Nov 22 '21

Inspirational I've been working on this project for probably way to long

663 Upvotes

r/pygame • • Jun 18 '25

Inspirational I'm creating a city-builder where you can also design buildings using Pygame

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645 Upvotes

Hi everyone! I'm an architect and a longtime fan of SimCity and city-building games.

Last year, I decided to finally try something I've always dreamed of: creating my own city-building game. I started learning Python from scratch (I didn't know anything about programming back then), and soon after began developing a simple prototype. As my programming skills grew, the project evolved too — little by little, I kept improving it, adding features and refining the concept.

Now, more than one year later, I’m excited to share what I’ve been working on:
CityArchitect — a city-building game where you don’t just design the city, but also the architecture of every building in it.

I have just launched the Steam page, and I’m planning to release an early test version later this year. The focus of this early version will be on the building creation tool, which is already well-developed, along with the ability to create small portions of a city and place your building creations there. The full city-building part is still in progress, but evolving every week.

If you’re curious to follow the development, I’m sharing regular updates on my page on Instagram. Would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and ideas!

Thanks for reading — and I hope some of you might enjoy this game as much as I do.


r/pygame • • Aug 12 '21

[Pygame Tech Demo] 10,000+ blades of interactive and shaded grass at over 60fps

460 Upvotes

r/pygame • • Apr 27 '25

Inspirational Water experiment

440 Upvotes

r/pygame • • Dec 23 '22

Inspirational Just released my first Pygame game that uses shaders!

437 Upvotes

r/pygame • • Jan 21 '25

Inspirational Just finished my game! https://gavgrub.itch.io/sosand

404 Upvotes

r/pygame • • May 07 '23

Inspirational Made in PyGame --- Holding Out

381 Upvotes

r/pygame • • Oct 28 '20

I have been working on a Ray Caster Engine in Pygame

356 Upvotes

r/pygame • • Jun 30 '20

A platformer game I'm making that has grappling hook physics

320 Upvotes

r/pygame • • Sep 27 '25

Isometric Factory builder

313 Upvotes

Started work on this about 3 days ago. Very simple right now I wanna see what yall think. Also I am fully aware the art is a little rough, Art is not really my strong suit. Also also the reason the bottom log didnt break right away was the system ran out of power so it couldnt break till it made power


r/pygame • • Nov 30 '22

Inspirational After 2 years, My Python Game is finally Released on Steam and Itch.io!

301 Upvotes

r/pygame • • Jun 05 '23

I made a Pygame arcade with my students

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295 Upvotes

We used an old gambling cabinet, a beat up Dell Optiplex, Amazon buttons, and a lot of you tube tutorials for Pygame. (Thanks Rus and Tim)


r/pygame • • Aug 31 '20

New Pygame Map Creator (With some rain for fun :D)

285 Upvotes

r/pygame • • Feb 17 '25

Inspirational Procedurally Generated Game (No Assets)

282 Upvotes

r/pygame • • Apr 08 '25

Fighting game engine

272 Upvotes

I've made good progress with the fighting game engine. You can try it out for yourself by downloading the repository from GitHub. You just need to download the listed sprites and select your character.


r/pygame • • Apr 10 '21

I made a shoot-em-up in one week with pygame !

260 Upvotes

r/pygame • • Nov 29 '24 Silver is Forever

Made in Pygame --- My Keyboard is Full of Ants (1st Place Overall, Ludum Dare 56)

252 Upvotes

r/pygame • • Jul 21 '21

I've hacked together a 3D engine in pygame and used it with a database of Earth's nearest stars

251 Upvotes

r/pygame • • Nov 09 '20

3d engine that i made from scratch using just pygame and numpy

250 Upvotes

r/pygame • • Nov 01 '25

Inspirational Who said pygame couldn't be beautiful?

246 Upvotes

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on a small project for a while and finally finished it, so I've decided to share. It’s called Forbidden, and it’s basically a pixel art ocean scene rendered in Pygame with a ModernGL shader on top. It’s not really a game (yet) but more of a visual demo.

You can move around with WASD, and interact with it using your mouse, the fish will avoid the cursor, and the kelp bends when you touch it. There’s also a layered sound design that shifts between above and below water. The actual water visuals them selves were inspired by those in the game "Rain World" (for anyone who knows it lol)

I wrote the fish and kelp simulations in C++ (using pybind11) for performance (yes i know about numba and other such libraries, i just wanted to try some C++), and it actually runs surprisingly smoothly, well over 60 FPS. I also made a small utility called WindowHandler.py which locks the aspect ratio and stops the window from freezing when its being resized or moved, it does so by hooking into the Windows API and overriding the default functionality, more details can be found on the GitHub https://github.com/LuckeyDuckey/Forbidden

Any ideas for turning this into a proper game are very welcome (because i personally suck at coming up with game ideas that are actually fun). I mostly made this project because i like programming visuals and i had this idea for an ocean scene for a while now, so i hope you like it.

Also please try playing the game yourself to get a good sense of how it looks, as the video compression here does it no favors lmao 🙏😭


r/pygame • • Nov 13 '24

Inspirational Yawnoc, my Pygame Steam game has been released!

243 Upvotes

r/pygame • • Jul 21 '22

Inspirational Made in PyGame --- Six Shooter

242 Upvotes

r/pygame • • Dec 25 '21

I used pygame to create my end-of-semester project

241 Upvotes

r/pygame • • Feb 08 '26

Pygame + PyOpenGL = Resident Evil-style pre-rendered backgrounds (prototype)

238 Upvotes

Backgrounds are flat images + 2D masks. The human is a 3D model.