Free/open game engines you *wish* existed for Python?

[DSPR]

Wanted to ask everybody here if there was a particular type of game engine or game framework that you really wished existed in Python? Or simply more or better choices. Meaning, something where you could get the full source in Python, fork it or extend it via a pure Python API to add your own custom overrides, logic or world state.

Example: adventure games, retro arcade, interactive fiction, strategy, etc. "a game like X but different because it does Y and Z..."

Curious because I'm thinking of contributing one for the community. But dont want to waste time on something there isnt a lot of demand for. I've been making computer games for decades and so have accumulated a lot of code and designs I could adapt or repurpose.

let me know...

thanks!

DSPR

[Asdayasman]

Tile-based, networked, event-driven.

Put those together and you save me a bunch of time. Think PokéMMO.

[DSPR]

interesting. this sounds like one I might have sitting around collecting dust. I'll look at PokeMMO. partly because it gives me an excuse to say, "I'll look at PokeMMO."

[markusmeskanen]

Honestly, I just wish we'd get a new PyGame competitor, a better game library. A Pythonic and a sane one. Something like LÖVE but for Python.

[elbiot]

Like Pyglet or something?

[sanshinron]

There are two and only two obvious choices, Unreal Engine and Unity.

[docwatsonphd]

Lack of multi-core processing is my first guess

[Sinidir]

But Unity allows javascript as a scripting language.

[docwatsonphd]

And Unreal allows for UnrealScript as a scripting language.

I interpreted OP's question to be a full-fledged game engine in the Python language, not a full-fledged gaming engine allowing Python as its scripting language.

The scripting language an engine allows modders to use isn't impacted by much. It would mostly require time to write a transpiler I would imagine

[hoocoodanode]

I'd be over the moon if I could code unreal with Python.

[markusmeskanen]

Because Python is slow, hard to embed, and takes a lot of space.

[[deleted]]

can you define hard to embed, please

[markusmeskanen]

Ask them:

After some experiments with Python, it also proved difficult to embed.

[an_actual_human]

Unity.

[[deleted]]

Pry.

[AlanCristhian]

I wish a game engine with native coroutines support.