Changelog

Pygame Studio 0.1.0

First public test release. Tested on Apple Silicon macOS. Installers for Windows, Linux and Intel Mac included, untested on those systems. Download.

Editor and projects

• Desktop app with panels you can move, group into tabs and pop out into windows, plus named layouts.
• Start screen with new project, open project and recent projects.
• Each project gets its own Python environment, created and repaired by the editor.
• Recovery of unsaved changes and optional autosave.
• Interface in English and Portuguese.

Scene, Explorer and Properties

• Scene with zoom, pan, frame selection and presets from 25% to 800%.
• Select, move, resize and rotate with the mouse; grid and snapping, with Cmd/Ctrl to suspend; alignment guides.
• Align, distribute, group and change draw order.
• Explorer with drag to reorganize, rename, hide, lock, duplicate, copy and paste, and search by name, class or tag.
• Properties with typed fields, filtering, multi object editing, attributes and tags.
• Undo and redo for every edit, including mouse edits.

Files and assets

• Files panel with search, thumbnails and image, font and sound previews.
• Import by dragging from your system; moving or renaming updates references in scenes.
• Slice spritesheets into a grid and pick a filter (pixel art or smooth).
• Problems tab lists missing assets.

Code

• Code editor with highlighting, autocomplete, signature help, hover, go to definition, rename and diagnostics.
• Attach a script to a node from the Explorer or Properties.
• Script export fields show up in Properties.
• Search across the contents of every project file.

Run and Output

• Run (F5), Run open scene, Stop (Shift+F5), Pause (F6) and Step one frame (F10). The game runs in a separate process.
• Output with levels, filtering and clickable errors that open the script at the right line.
• Hot reload: saving a script while the game runs swaps the code and keeps the object’s state.

Game content

• Nodes: Sprite, AnimatedSprite, Shape, Text, Camera2D, TileMap, StaticBody, KinematicBody, Area, Timer, AudioPlayer.
• Box collision with move_and_slide and move_and_collide, layers and masks.
• Follow camera with smoothing, limits and shake.
• TileMap with the Paint tool and Tiled import (CSV .tmx and .tmj).
• Animation editor for .anim.json files.
• Audio with per group volume.
• Input map with keyboard, mouse and gamepad.
• Tweens, timers and scene changes.

Game UI

• Canvas, Panel, Label, Button and Image, positioned by scale and pixels.
• UIListLayout, UIGridLayout, UIPadding, UIAspectRatio and UISizeConstraint layouts.
• Buttons with keyboard and gamepad focus, and 9-slice on panels, buttons and images.
• Resolution presets to preview the UI.

Customization

• Dark, light and high contrast themes; color editor with export and import; import colors from a VS Code theme.
• Interface scale from 75% to 200%, code fonts and styles.
• Editable shortcuts, command palette (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+P) and quick open (Cmd/Ctrl+P).
• New visual design for the editor, with its own icon.

Export and templates

• Export the game as a program for the current system, with an optional icon.
• Browser export (experimental, needs internet).
• Templates: Empty, Basic example, Platformer, Top-down and Puzzle.
• Node reference, the “Your first game” tutorial and F1 help on every property.

Installation

• Installers for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Windows and Linux, with Python 3.13 built in.
• Automatic updates through GitHub Releases (on macOS, only once the app is signed).

Known limits

• Installers are not code signed.
• Collision and TileMap ignore rotation.
• Hot reload reloads the whole script module (module globals start over) and does not reload modules it imports.
• The input map axis() is digital; a real gamepad and audio output have not been tested on hardware.
• AnimatedSprite shows only its first frame in the editor scene.
• Export only builds for the system the editor is running on.

See the full list in known issues.