What are the differences between the various Python game frameworks? Would it help to see a couple of game examples across several libraries to understand the distinctions? This week on the show, Christopher Trudeau is here, bringing another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects.

We discuss a Real Python article by previous guest Jon Fincher titled “Top Python Game Engines”. Jon compares five different game frameworks and provides example projects and thorough commentary for each.

We talk about a blog post by recent guest Adam Johnson about determining if a project is well maintained. He suggests twelve questions to decide whether to add a new dependency to your project.

We cover several other articles and projects from the Python community, including a news roundup, Python decorator patterns, finding the smallest and largest values with min() and max(), a discussion about the most-used Python packages, the pony object-relational mapper, and a project to read PEPs in your console.

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In this course, you’ll build a clone of the Asteroids game in Python using Pygame. Step by step, you’ll add images, input handling, game logic, sounds, and text to your program.

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