How to install Pygame

Pygame can be a little tricky to get running some times because it depends on what version of python you have.

Windows

For easy installation we recommend Python 3.2 (or earlier) 32 Bit Version. (

Step 1) Make sure you have Python 3.2 32 Bit installed

Step 2) Go to the Pygame site and download the the pygame-1.9.2a0.win32-py3.2.msi file

Step 3) Once downloaded click the msi file, when asked to choose a version of Python to install with Python 3.2 should appear there, select that and proceed with he installation. (If it doesn't appear you may not have the correct python installed)

Step 4) You're done!

If you have pip installed you can install Pygame from the command line with the command "pip3 install pygame". You can install this way for python 3.4 version.

OS X

This might be a little tricky and we will need to use Python 2 in stead of Python 3.

Give this a try:

Step 1) Make sure you have Python 2.7 32 Bit installed

Step 2) Go to the Pygame site and download the the pygame-1.9.1release-python.org-32bit-py2.7-macosx10.3.dmg file.

Step 3) Once downloaded click the dmg file (or install from the command line), and follow the prompts.

Step 4) Hopefully you're done!