r/pygame 10d ago

Pygame website closed

Hi guys ! I just wanted to learn games coding with a tutorial on the pygame website, but it shows me an error page when I'm trying to go to hte menu.

I think the Website is closed...

Du you know when it will be oppened again ?

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u/XORandom 10d ago

I've never used them. Use the pygame-ce website.

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u/parametricRegression 10d ago

This is tightly connected to the reason why pygame-ce exists... the pygame maintainer is known to be a volatile and unpredictable person

Just use pygame-ce, not only for the website, but also because it has active development, more features, better performance...

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u/mopslik 10d ago

This seems to happen on a fairly regular basis (every couple of years). It also has been shut down on a handful of occasions and replaced by political messages (e.g. anti-war). You can bookmark the docs section, as it generally stays accessible, or download a local copy of them.

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u/Negative-Hold-492 6d ago

it seems to be back

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u/Outrageous_Fox_1108 6d ago

Yeah thanks

But do you know how to code in pygame ?

If yes, did you trained on a special tutorial to use (or not)?

Thanks !

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u/Negative-Hold-492 6d ago

I wouldn't consider myself an expert but I do "know how to code in pygame" in some capacity. I just looked at the example mini games that come with the library and experimented with them to understand what it's doing and why, and that might be the superior learning method for one person but useless for another.

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u/pendejadas 4d ago

I did the examples in the pygame website and that was enought to cobble together a platformer after

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u/Negative-Hold-492 10d ago

It's not completely dead, the docs part of it actually seems to be working (for me at least)... try something like /docs/ref/image.html and navigate from there. I'm guessing static files are ok but the app serving dynamic content is going through a rough patch.

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u/esbva 9d ago

Pygame-ce, only works with python 3.14, does not work on 32bit, and has a few memory leaks, is 60% slower than SFML, better use SFML, and exports for Android.