freeCodeCamp/guide/english/game-development/pygame/index.md

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## Pygame

### Game Development with Pygame

Pygame is an open source, cross platform Python library used for game development, written by Pete Shinners. The Pygame documentation and more information can be found on their website at https://pygame.org.

### Overview

The project started in the year 2000 as a result of the death of PySDL. The Pygame library version 1.0 was
released after six months development in April of 2001.

* [Pygame Official Website](https://www.pygame.org)
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			`## Pygame`

			`### Game Development with Pygame`

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			`### Overview`

			`The project started in the year 2000 as a result of the death of PySDL. The Pygame library version 1.0 was`
			`released after six months development in April of 2001.`

			`* [Pygame Official Website](https://www.pygame.org)`