Deploy PyGame Games to a Website

Run your PyGame games on the web with Github pages. You game will actually be running entirely in the browser using WebAssembly and pygbag.

Setup Environment for local development

First, copy this repo. You should use the green "Use this template ▾" button, but you can also fork the repository to your own account.

Clone to your development environment, or make a codespace, then reate an environment and load the requirements.

    python3 -mvenv .venv
    source .venv/bin/activate
    pip install -r requirements.txt

Then you can run the game:

 python src/main.py

After demonstrating that the Space Invaders game works, you can develop your own game in the src/ directory.

Run the web game

pygbag src/

Then you can open http://localhost:8000/ to play the game

Publish to Github

You should have this repo in a Github repo. Go to Settings>Pages. Under "Build and deployment" set "Source" to "Deploy from Branch"

Then publish the branch with: make publish

Wait a bit then back in the Github Pages settings, set "Branch" to "gh-pages" ( this branch is created by make publish and may take a while to appear ) Wait a bit more, and when your pages are readh, you will see the URL at the top of the Github Settings page.

Example

You can play the demo Space Invaders game here.

Original

This repo is copied from the original by Santhoshkumard11, from this Github repo. See his DEV article for a discussion

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