I was trying to decide on the easiest way to make a graphical user interface for the Scarne’s Challenge puzzle game that I’ve been experimenting with. I stumbled upon pygame, a simple game programming library that uses Simple DirectMedia Layer library to provide a fairly attractive environment for making simple games in Python. In just an afternoon, I coded a simple mpeg player with custom controls, and am now working on a version of the classic Spacewar! game, which I anticipate should
take me another day or two. Fun stuff, screenshots to follow soon!