Debian Games Project
Summary
python3 development
development of games in Python 3

This metapackage will install a selection of suitable tools and packages to develop games in the Python 3 programming language. Example games written in Python 3 are suggested.

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Debian Games python3 development packages

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python3-fife
FIFE is a multi-platform isometric game engine
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FIFE stands for Flexible Isometric Free Engine and is a cross platform game creation framework written in C++. It provides you with the ability to create a game using Python interfaces. FIFE also comes as a DLL or static library so you can use C++ as well.

python3-kivy
Kivy - Multimedia / Multitouch framework in Python (Python 3)
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Kivy is an open source library for developing multi-touch applications. It is completely cross platform (Linux/OSX/Win/Android) and released under the terms of the MIT license.

It comes with native support for many multi-touch input devices, a growing library of multi-touch aware widgets, hardware accelerated OpenGL drawing, and an architecture that is designed to let you focus on building custom and highly interactive applications as quickly and easily as possible.

Kivy is a mixed Python library with Cython code, to take advantage of its highly dynamic nature and use any of the thousands of high quality and open source Python libraries out there, with the speed of C code.

This package contains the Python 3 compatible version of the library.

python3-opengl
Python bindings to OpenGL (Python 3)
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PyOpenGL is a cross-platform open source Python binding to the standard OpenGL API providing 2D and 3D graphic drawing. PyOpenGL supports the GL, GLU, GLE, and GLUT libraries. The library can be used with the Tkinter, wxPython, FxPy, and Win32GUI windowing libraries (or almost any Python windowing library which can provide an OpenGL context).

This is the Python 3 version of the package.

python3-pil
Python Imaging Library (Python3)
Maintainer: Matthias Klose
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The Python Imaging Library (PIL) adds an image object to your Python interpreter. You can load images from a variety of file formats, and apply a rich set of image operations to them.

Image Objects:

  • Bilevel, greyscale, palette, true colour (RGB), true colour with transparency (RGBA).
  • colour separation (CMYK).
  • Copy, cut, paste operations.
  • Flip, transpose, resize, rotate, and arbitrary affine transforms.
  • Transparency operations.
  • Channel and point operations.
  • Colour transforms, including matrix operations.
  • Image enhancement, including convolution filters.

File Formats:

  • Full (Open/Load/Save): BMP, EPS (with ghostscript), GIF, IM, JPEG, MSP, PDF, PNG, PPM, TIFF, XBM.
  • Read only (Open/Load): ARG, CUR, DCX, FLI, FPX, GBR, GD, ICO, IMT, IPTC, MCIDAS, MPEG, PhotoCD, PCX, PIXAR, PSD, TGA, SGI, SUN, TGA, WMF, XPM.
  • Save only: PDF, EPS (without ghostscript).
python3-pygame
SDL bindings for games development (Python 3)
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A multimedia development kit for Python. Pygame provides modules for you to access the video display, play sounds, track time, read the mouse and joystick, control the CD player, render true type fonts and more. It does this using mainly the cross-platform SDL library, a lightweight wrapper to OS-specific APIs.

This is the Python 3 version of the package.

python3-sdl2
Python bindings to the SDL2 C-library (Python 3 build)
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PySDL2 is a ctypes based wrapper around the Simple DirectMedia Layer 2 library to allow portable low level access to a video framebuffer, audio output, mouse and keyboard.

This module is built for Python version 3.x.

python3-sfml
Simple and Fast Multimedia Library - Python 3 Bindings
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SFML is an modern multimedia library offering a wide range of subsystems useful to produce an multimedia application. It offers OpenGL integration for hardware accelerated Graphics, Windowing and input support, audio and network facilities and supports besides GNU/Linux MS Windows and Mac OS X, too.

This package contains the Python 3 bindings for SFML.

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eric
full featured Python IDE
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eric is a full featured Python IDE written in PyQt using the QScintilla editor widget. Some highlights

  • Any number of editors with configurable syntax highlighting, code folding, auto indenting and brace highlighting.
  • Integrated Project Management facility to organize your projects. The project browser shows all source files, all forms and all translations each on its own tab. The source browser has built in class browsing capabilities.
  • Integrated and full featured debuggers for Python and Ruby.
  • Interactive shells for Python and Ruby.
  • An explorer window for walking through your directory structure with built in class browsing capabilities for Python files.
  • Variable windows that display local and global variables in the current scope while debugging a program.
  • An integrated interface to the Python Module "unittest".
  • An integrated help viewer to display HTML help files. Alternatively you can choose to use Qt-Assistant to view help files.
  • Display of the UI in different languages.
  • The capability to start Qt-Designer and Qt-Linguist from within eric5.
  • The ability to compile Qt-Designer forms, to produce Qt-Linguist files and release them from within the IDE.
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pybik
Rubik's cube game
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Pybik is a 3D puzzle game about the cube invented by Ernő Rubik.

  • Various 3D puzzles, such as cubes, towers, prisms, tetrahedra, octahedra, dodecahedra and many more
  • Solvers for some puzzles
  • Pretty patterns
  • Editor for move sequences
  • Custom colors and images on the surface of the puzzles
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python3-minecraftpi
Raspberry PI Minecraft API Python client library
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Make it easy to program minetest and minecraft from Python, as described in the book Learn to program using Minecraft.

This package provide the 'mcpi' Python library.

python3-pyqt5.qtopengl
Python 3 bindings for Qt5's OpenGL module
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The OpenGL module of PyQt5 provides widgets and utility classes for OpenGL rendering in a PyQt5 application.

This package contains the Python 3 version of this module.

vim
Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor
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Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi.

Many new features have been added: multi level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, filename completion, block operations, folding, Unicode support, etc.

This package contains a version of vim compiled with a rather standard set of features. This package does not provide a GUI version of Vim. See the other vim-* packages if you need more (or less).

The package is enhanced by the following packages: halibut tpp vim-latexsuite vim-scripts
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