The Python Game Book is a free creative-commons licensed multilingual dokuwiki book written (mostly) by Horst JENS¹⁾.

The Python Game Book aims to provide interested students and teachers all what is necessary to teach themselves how to write computer games using the language python and other free open_source tools.

The book comes in 2 different variants:

• the free online version (what you are looking at)
• the non-free deluxe paper version (planned)

The wiki book is organized into parts and additional special pages like resources, glossary and help.

Everyone (free registration with valid email address necessary) can collaborate and improve this book:

• Write: create new pages or edit existing pages
• Translate: All pages can be translated from English into other languages (like German).
• Discuss Talk about a page, using the talk link (next to the language links on top right).

To begin reading best start with the the step 001 - pygame basics

Here it is, in all its glory: The - I repeat: THE - Python Game Book.

From its humble beginning as a Pygamebook project on SourceForge, to its unforeseeable future - a future that even I, the author can not imagine - the Python game book has evolved by several steps.

This part of the Python game book explains the concept of the book, the idea behind it and its history.

There exist various resources to learn programming with python. I suggest you read one of those first.

http://www.python.org/doc/

In this part of the book -part 2-, you learn how to program simple 2D-games, using the programming language Python and additional modules like Pygame.

There exist several 3D-engines that you can program using Python:

• Blender
• Alice 3d
• QCake
• Ogre (PyOgre)
• OpenGL (PyOpenGL)

This namespace page serves as a collection of useful resources for a python programmer, like websites, tools, programs, links and books. If you want to introduce yourself or your project, create an subnamespace below people