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Show HN: Pyxel – A Python retro game engine with built-in art and sound editors

107 points · 11 comments · 22 days ago · kitao

Hi HN, I'm the creator of Pyxel, a free, MIT-licensed retro game engine for Python. I've been developing it since 2018, and it recently passed 18,000 stars on GitHub.

Pyxel includes pixel art, tilemap, sound, and music editors, so you can create a game's visuals and audio as well as write its code in Python. The engine itself is implemented in Rust.

Games run on Windows, macOS, Linux, and the web, as well as supported Linux-based retro handhelds.

You can share a URL to launch a Pyxel game hosted on GitHub directly in a browser. You can also create games entirely in your browser with Pyxel Code Maker, or write chiptunes in Pyxel MML Studio.

See what people have made with Pyxel: https://kitao.github.io/pyxel-user-examples/

Try Code Maker: https://kitao.github.io/pyxel/web/code-maker/

I'm happy to answer questions about the engine and its implementation.

dejobaan21 days ago
I've seen this around from time to time. I haven't used it, but wanted to mention that (as someone who grew up on the 6502), I love these retro things, and always appreciate seeing your project's progress. The breadth of cool stuff folks are making is delightful too.
gregkb22 days ago
had such a great time with Pyxel! was great fun to recreate some of the demo scene effects from my childhood. easy to setup and get coding and make some pixels "move" quickly. it has some inherit limitations (eg. how colours and bitmaps are organised) which gives you some satisfying challenges. just enough to satisfy your 8-16bits assembly nostalgia. maybe I should go back add a few more parts to my demo: https://github.com/greg76/megademo
az09mugen14 days ago
Hello,
I wanted to try this engine but I can't find the repo anymore, the github link redirects to a 404. You removed the repo ?
LarsDu8821 days ago
Love pyxel. My drive to create something with it has weakened over the years since you can literally get Astra to one shot a 3d multiplayer FPS now.
I wonder if it is possible to write the games in pure rust as opposed to Python. Would be a good excuse for me to learn more Rust.
krapp22 days ago
It looks cool. I have two questions.
1) What's your AI policy?
2) How is this different from PyGame?
diamondDrill19 days ago
#212 Electron is v cool
davidedicillo21 days ago
Normalize making regular apps look like 80s video games, please. I've been building a couple with that look and I'll definitely explore using this to power the next ones.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928215

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Show HN: Pyxel – A Python retro game engine with built-in art and sound editors

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107 points · 11 comments · 22 days ago · kitao

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Hi HN, I'm the creator of Pyxel, a free, MIT-licensed retro game engine for Python. I've been developing it since 2018, and it recently passed 18,000 stars on GitHub.

Pyxel includes pixel art, tilemap, sound, and music editors, so you can create a game's visuals and audio as well as write its code in Python. The engine itself is implemented in Rust.

Games run on Windows, macOS, Linux, and the web, as well as supported Linux-based retro handhelds.

You can share a URL to launch a Pyxel game hosted on GitHub directly in a browser. You can also create games entirely in your browser with Pyxel Code Maker, or write chiptunes in Pyxel MML Studio.

See what people have made with Pyxel: https://kitao.github.io/pyxel-user-examples/

Try Code Maker: https://kitao.github.io/pyxel/web/code-maker/

I'm happy to answer questions about the engine and its implementation.

dejobaan21 days ago
I've seen this around from time to time. I haven't used it, but wanted to mention that (as someone who grew up on the 6502), I love these retro things, and always appreciate seeing your project's progress. The breadth of cool stuff folks are making is delightful too.
gregkb22 days ago
had such a great time with Pyxel! was great fun to recreate some of the demo scene effects from my childhood. easy to setup and get coding and make some pixels "move" quickly. it has some inherit limitations (eg. how colours and bitmaps are organised) which gives you some satisfying challenges. just enough to satisfy your 8-16bits assembly nostalgia. maybe I should go back add a few more parts to my demo: https://github.com/greg76/megademo
az09mugen14 days ago
Hello,
I wanted to try this engine but I can't find the repo anymore, the github link redirects to a 404. You removed the repo ?
LarsDu8821 days ago
Love pyxel. My drive to create something with it has weakened over the years since you can literally get Astra to one shot a 3d multiplayer FPS now.
I wonder if it is possible to write the games in pure rust as opposed to Python. Would be a good excuse for me to learn more Rust.
krapp22 days ago
It looks cool. I have two questions.
1) What's your AI policy?
2) How is this different from PyGame?
diamondDrill19 days ago
#212 Electron is v cool
davidedicillo21 days ago
Normalize making regular apps look like 80s video games, please. I've been building a couple with that look and I'll definitely explore using this to power the next ones.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928215