rubato 0.2.2

A lightweight, developer-first game engine built for Python.

     

rubato is a modern 2D game engine for python. Accurate fixed-step physics simulations, robust scene and game object management, event listener system and more all come prepackaged.

rubato is built developer-first. From intricate rigidbody simulations to 2D games, rubato streamlines development for beginners and the poweruser. And all that finally with some legible documentation.

rubato uses SDL2 as its backend and currently ships with the needed DLLs for Mac and Windows. If your looking for a PyGame backend, the final PyGame-based release was 1.2, however it is not supported. It will not be recieving any updates and any projects using this version should consider upgrading. This has allowed us to implement more complex features not supported by PyGame such as antialiasing and hardware acceleration. If you would like to read more about PySDL2 or need to utilize its underlying functionality in your project, you can read the python wrapper documentation here and the base C++ SDL wiki here.

Wondering about the name? rubato is a music term that indicates a phrase that should be performed expressively and freely. We aim to harness that same freedom, bringing a fresh, modern take on game developement in python to a variety of users regardless of their coding background.

Get started here.

A big thank you to all of our contributors who help make this project possible.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md

Looking to contribute to Rubato?

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Code of Conduct

See CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md.

Credit to @ArksDigital for the dino animation used in the demos and in the tutorial. (itch page)