Download Pygame Studio 0.1.0
Pick the file for your system. Every installer ships with Python 3.13, uv, pygame-ce and the project templates, so you don't need to install anything else to get started. Each file is between 150 and 190 MB.
This is an early test release, and the installers are not code signed. That is why macOS and Windows show a security warning the first time you open the app. The steps below show how to open it anyway.
Only the Apple Silicon Mac version has been tested end to end. The Windows, Linux and Intel Mac versions were built but have never been run on those systems. They may work, or they may not open at all.
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macOS · Apple Silicon (M1 or newer)
Pygame-Studio-0.1.0-mac-arm64.dmg · 174 MB
Intel Mac? Download the Intel version. To check your chip: Apple menu > About This Mac.
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Linux 64-bit
Pygame-Studio-0.1.0-linux-x86_64.AppImage · 187 MB
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There are also .zip builds for Mac.
How to open the app
- Open the .dmg and drag Pygame Studio into Applications.
- Open the app. macOS will say it could not verify the developer. Close the warning without moving the app to the Trash.
- Go to System Settings > Privacy & Security. Scroll to the bottom, find the message about Pygame Studio and click Open Anyway. Confirm with your password.
- From then on the app opens normally.
If macOS says the app "is damaged", run this in Terminal:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Pygame Studio.app"This removes the "downloaded from the internet" flag from the app. Only use it on files you got from the official page and checked against the checksum.
These steps have not been verified on this system yet.
- Run Pygame-Studio-0.1.0-win-x64.exe.
- If you see "Windows protected your PC", click More info, then Run anyway.
- Follow the installer. Pygame Studio shows up in the Start menu.
These steps have not been verified on this system yet.
Make the file executable and run it:
chmod +x Pygame-Studio-0.1.0-linux-x86_64.AppImage
./Pygame-Studio-0.1.0-linux-x86_64.AppImageIf you get an error about FUSE, install libfuse2 (on Ubuntu 24.04 the package is libfuse2t64) and try again.
Verify your download (checksums)
Each release publishes a SHA256SUMS.txt file next to the installers. Compute the hash of the file you downloaded and compare it with the matching line in the table above.
shasum -a 256 Pygame-Studio-0.1.0-mac-arm64.dmgGet-FileHash .\Pygame-Studio-0.1.0-win-x64.exe -Algorithm SHA256sha256sum Pygame-Studio-0.1.0-linux-x86_64.AppImageIf the values don't match, don't open the file. Download it again from this page.
Requirements
- Apple Silicon macOS (tested), Intel macOS, 64-bit Windows or 64-bit Linux (those three are untested). The minimum version of each system has not been set yet.
- About 200 MB to download, plus room to install and for your projects.
- You don't need internet to make and run games. It is used to check for updates, for the first desktop export (it downloads PyInstaller) and for browser export.
- No Python install needed.
Updates
The app checks for new versions on its own, a few seconds after it opens and then every 6 hours. When it finds one, it downloads it in the background and asks whether you want to restart and install. Messages show up in the Output.
- On Windows and Linux, automatic updates are in place but have never run against a published release, since this is the first one.
- On macOS they don't work yet, because macOS only accepts automatic updates for signed apps. Until then, download the new version from this page and replace the app in Applications.