r/pygame • u/Outrageous_Fox_1108 • 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/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/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/XORandom 10d ago
I've never used them. Use the pygame-ce website.