Some examples

Pygame Zero consists of a runner pgzrun that will run a Pygame Zero script with a full game loop and a range of useful builtins.

Here’s some of the neat stuff you can do (each one of these would be a self-contained, runnable script):

Draw graphics (from the images/ directory):

def draw():
    screen.clear()
    screen.blit(images.dog, (10, 50))

Play a sound (from the sounds/ directory) when you click the mouse:

def on_mouse_down():
    sounds.eep.play()

Update and draw an “actor” object:

alien = Actor('alien')
alien.pos = 10, 10

def draw():
    screen.clear()
    alien.draw()

def update():
    alien.x += 1
    if alien.left > WIDTH:
        alien.right = 0

Installation

1. Install Pygame for Python 3

2. Install Pygame Zero (python setup.py install)

3. “python3 -m pgzero <pgzero program>” or (if installed correctly) pgzrun <program>

Documentation

The full documentation is at http://pygame-zero.readthedocs.org/.

Read the tutorial at http://pygame-zero.readthedocs.org/en/latest/introduction.html for a taste of the other things that Pygame Zero can do.