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    • Many people have developed very simple games that they want to share with others. Mainly as an example or starting point. These are all simple, complete games you can experiment and play with.
     
    Also check out the Projects page for a listing full games, applications, and libraries.
     

     

    Gamelets


    SNIPER SNIPER
    sniper.tar.bz2
    author CrackPlay
    date Sep 16, 2004
    An impressive display of lines of site and field of view. As a sniper you must assemble your weapon without being detected, then shoot the guards. Still in the first stages of construction, this already includes a good set of complex math.

    MAPEDITOR MAPEDITOR
    mapeditor.zip
    author Andwer Baker
    date Sep 16, 2004
    Simple Map Editor. Early in development allows you to place tiles with the keyboard.

    SPACEPONG SPACEPONG
    spacepong-0.0.1.tar.gz
    author Shlomi Loubaton
    date Sep 6, 2004
    An innovative game that is controlled with the mouse. Steer you spacecraft ball around the screen and pickup speed by bouncing off the walls. The goal is to collect a certain amount of prizes in a short time.

    BATTLE BATTLE
    battle.v1.1.0.src.zip
    author Tom "Knio" Flanagan
    date June 28, 2004
    Miniature fleets of spaceships go to war in a virtual space field. See how many computer controlled objects interact each other. Edit the included XML to customize your own battle scenes.

    Dorkanoid Dorkanoid
    dorkanoid.zip dorkanoid.tar.gz
    author Hannu Kankaanpää
    date June 4, 2004
    Sharpen your mouse skills by trying to hit all of the falling yellow balls. See how to move sprites in smooth elliptical paths and check for collision against the paddle. Includes simple gameplay environment with difficulty levels and a persistent high score for each difficulty.

    Adventure Adventure of Einar
    einar.tar.bz2
    author Patrick Rutledge
    date May 16, 2004
    Skeleton game for a classic Zelda style adventure. Navigate a simple world with weapons, treaure, and simple enemies.

    TWISTREF TWISTREF
    twistref.tar.gz
    author Shandy Brown
    date May 7, 2004
    Twister Referee. Calls out twister moves on a timer. Includes audio and large visuals to assist players into their positions.

    ASENATH ASENATH
    asenath-win32.zip asenath-src.zip
    author Dieter Buys
    date April 1, 2004
    A fully working sidescrolling game, similar to classic Castlevanias.

    PV PV
    pv-1.03.tar.gz
    author Sean Reifschneider
    date March 31, 2004
    Image viewer and slideshower that preloads the next likely images into a cache for faster viewing.

    CHANT CHANT
    chant.py
    author Frithjof Engel
    date March 31, 2004
    Simple typing tutor. Type letters before they reach the bottom of the screen. The longer you play the more letters appear.

    SCROLLJB SCROLLJB
    scrolljb.tar.gz
    author Shandy Brown
    date March 7, 2004
    Scroll, Jump, and Beguile. An example of a side-scroller, evolved from MonkeyStomp. Scrolling engine and simplified physics included.

    SLIDE SLIDE
    slide.zip
    author psymaster
    date January 25, 2004
    A slideshow viewer that uses pygame, tkinter, and pil. It starts with a small interface that controls which directories to browse through. Then slideshows the images with smooth fading between each.

    PYRAIDER PYRAIDER
    pyraider.zip pyraider_exe.zip
    author Roadkill
    date January 22, 2004
    Simple space shootup game for two local players. Enemy ships have different behaviors on each level.

    PYC4 PYC4
    pyc4.tar.gz pyc4-setup-1.2.exe
    author Daniel Clark
    date June 26, 2003
    This is pretty advanced for the gamelets section. The game has many features, very simple interface stuff, fading transitions. It is a simple complete game.

    SUCKABOTS SUCKABOTS
    suckabots.tar.gz
    author Shandy Brown
    date January 20, 2003
    Sucka Jab Bots - An electronic version of Rock'em Sock'em Robots. A really simple example of the "Fighting Game" genre, like Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat. Introduces a simple animation system for sprites.

    NAPUTUS NAPUTUS
    naputus.tgz
    author Eero Tamminen
    date January 6, 2003
    Simple game you follow along the blinking lights that slowly get faster and faster. Uses simple keyboard input.

    SPACEGAME SPACEGAME
    spacegame-24-12-2002.zip
    author David Boddie
    date December 24, 2002
    A full sized gamelet. In SpaceGame you control a spaceship with the mouse. Moving and aiming are done separately. You must shoot off many enemies that move around in formations. The game offers several difficulty modes and high score files.

    GIFTRUN GIFTRUN
    giftrun-0.1.tar.gz giftrun-0.1.zip
    author Ole Martin Bjørndalen
    date December 20, 2002
    Santa must drop presents into chimneys as he flys along. Very simple game that covers many parts of designing a game. See the site for more details.

    MONKEYSTOMP MONKEYSTOMP
    monkeystomp.tar.gz
    author Shandy Brown
    date November 15, 2002
    Mutated from the original chimp punching example. This examples a mario-style controlled character who must stomp a monkey head. Version 1.1 cleaned the code up a bit.

    NEHE NEHE OpenGL
    nehe1-10.zip
    author Paul Furber
    date November 14, 2002
    The NEHE OpenGL demos are a famous introduction to concepts of OpenGL. Unfortunately they are also known for their difficult to follow and ugly code. These versions of the first 10 NEHE demos work with pygame and pyopengl and have been rewritten to be easy and straightforward.

    PYCASTER PYCASTER
    pycaster.zip pycastersrc.zip
    author Harry Cheung
    date September 4, 2002
    Raycasting engine written in python. A nice experiment, but unfortunately too slow to be usable. For the curious. Also see the pycaster site at http://www.magicookie.com/hacks/pycaster

    PYBILL PYBILL
    pybill-2.1.tar.gz
    author Herve Cauwelier
    date August 24, 2002
    Port of a silly linux game where you slap little Bill bloody. Implements little computers and characters with various states and animations and mouse interaction.

    CONNECT CONNECT
    connect.py
    author Michael Bauers
    date August 12, 2002
    Two players take turn with the mouse, trying to connect a solid line across the game field. Lines are connected by "knight-move" positioned pegs. Shows how to handle a turn-based board game betweeen multiple players.

    BOMBERS BOMBERS
    bombers.exe bombers.tgz
    author Peter Goode
    date March 8, 2002
    Using just an ancient turboprop fighter, can you repel the alien hordes? Bomber is a space shootem up, it features keyboard control of the ship, and some advanced path animations for the enemy ships.

    PYKANOID PYKANOID
    pykanoid-0.14.0.tar.bz2
    author Martin Hansen
    date February 21, 2002
    You all know this one. Control your little paddle to rebound bouncing balls into smashable tiles. break them all and win. Comes with a level editor.

    PYPONG PYPONG
    pypong.exe pypong.tgz
    author Peter Goode
    date February 3, 2002
    Remake of the original pong. Battling paddles try to bounce a ball past the other. This version adds bricks that must be broken through before the ball can score.

    GIGGLEBUBBLE GIGGLEBUBBLE
    gigglebubble.tgz gigglebubble.exe
    author Peter Goode
    date January 28, 2002
    GibbleBubble is a simple puzzle game of reflexes. Earn points by managing to stop the motion of several moving onscreen objects. This is an expanded version of the chimp punching example with multiple moving sprites.

    PYSTEROIDS PYSTEROIDS
    pysteroids2.zip
    author Lucio Torre
    date November 2, 2001
    Simple asteroids style game with fun large sprites. See how to control a spaceship with arrow keys.

    FARBLAZER FARBLAZER
    farblazer-0.7.tar.gz farblazer-0.7-setup.exe
    author Adam Feuer
    date August 27, 2001
    The apple][ shooter StarBlazer is recreated in this project. Featuring different bombing missions on each level while you try to maintain control of the skies.