Welcome to Pygame Turbo

Pygame Turbo is for creating games without boilerplate.

It is intended for use in education, so that teachers can teach basic programming without needing to explain the Pygame API or write an event loop.

Pygame Turbo is a fast moving fork of the Pygame Zero framework created by Daniel Pope.

Courses

• Introduction to Pygame Turbo
  • Creating a window
  • Drawing a background
  • Draw a sprite
  • Moving the alien
  • Handling clicks
  • Sounds and images
  • Clock
  • Summary
• Migrating from Scratch
  • The stage
  • Pipe movement
  • The Bird
  • Summary

Reference

• Event Hooks
  • Game Loop Hooks
    • draw()
    • update()
  • Event Handling Hooks
    • on_mouse_down()
    • on_mouse_up()
    • on_mouse_move()
    • on_key_down()
    • on_key_up()
    • on_joy_down()
    • on_joy_up()
    • on_joy_move()
    • on_joy_added()
    • on_joy_removed()
    • on_music_end()
    • Buttons and Keys
• Built-in Objects
  • Screen
    • Screen
  • Rect
  • Resource Loading
    • Images
    • Image Surfaces
    • Sounds
  • Music
    • music.play()
    • music.play_once()
    • music.queue()
    • music.stop()
    • music.pause()
    • music.unpause()
    • music.is_playing()
    • music.fadeout()
    • music.set_volume()
    • music.get_volume()
  • Mouse
    • Mouse
    • Recent pos and rel
    • Cursors
    • LEFT or pressed_left
  • Controllers
    • joy
    • joysticks
  • Clock
    • Scheduling with arguments
    • Elapsed time and marks
    • Timescale
  • Actors
    • Positioning Actors
    • Anchor point
    • Scale
    • Width and height
    • Flipping
    • Rotation
    • Distance and angle to
    • Angle Movement
    • Velocity and interception
    • Transparency
    • Simple shapes
    • On screen or not
  • The Keyboard
  • Animations
    • animate()
    • Animation
  • Tone Generator
    • tone.play()
    • tone.create()
  • Data Storage
    • Storage

User Guide

• Installing Pygame Turbo
  • On desktop systems
  • For flake8/pyflakes
• Running Pygame Turbo in IDLE and other IDEs
  • Example
• Examples
  • List of example games
• Tutorials and Resources
  • Books
  • Online Tutorials
  • Magazines
  • Video Tutorials
  • Hardware
• Other libraries like Pygame Turbo
  • Network Zero
  • GUI Zero
  • GPIO Zero
  • Adventurelib
  • Blue Dot
• Changelog
  • Running overview
  • 1.7.0 - 2026-06-05
  • 1.6.0 - 2026-06-04
  • 1.5.0 - 2026-05-29
  • 1.4.3 - 2026-05-24
  • 1.4.2 - 2026-05-22
  • 1.4.1 - 2026-05-20
  • 1.4.0 - 2026-05-19
  • 1.3.5 - 2025-09-23
  • Pygame Zero Changelog

Improving Pygame Turbo

• Roadmap
  • Translations
  • Gamepad Support
  • Surface juggling
• Principles of Pygame Turbo
  • Make it accessible
  • Be conservative
  • Just Work
  • Minimise runtime cost
  • Error clearly
  • Document well
  • Minimise breaking changes
• Contributing to Pygame Turbo
  • Reporting an bug or request
  • How to do a pull request
  • Development installation
  • How to run tests
  • Helping to translate the documentation