Pygame 1.5 Released

[Pete Shinners]

Pygame, game development for python

Pygame 1.5 released on May 30, 2002
Pete Shinners (pete at shinners.org)
http://www.pygame.org


Pygame is a set of python modules written to help create games in
Python. It allows for the creation of high quality games, yet
simple enough for the beginning user to get started immediately.

Version 1.5 adds many features to the audio modules. Stereo panning,
music playback control, and realtime sound effects are top features.
There is a wide range of other enhancements; alpha preserving blits,
gamma ramp control, TGA image saving. Pygame also comes with a new
playable example, "uberball".

For those new to the pygame library, it includes:
   * fullscreen or windowed framebuffer
   * multiple audio channel mixing, with streaming music
   * control of joystick, cdrom, mouse, and keyboard devices
   * antialiased truetype font rendering
   * variety of media formats: png, jpg, ogg, mp3, mod, and more

The pygame package also comes with complete documentation,
tutorials, and many playable examples. There is both an active
mailing list and irc channel available to help people get started.

Pygame is distributed under the LGPL licese, which is the same
license used by many its dependencies.