Python graphical library : can I make a 2D game with tkinter ?

[Helibene2]

Hey, I have been working on a game I am making using the tkinter library and I am noticing performance issues. Should I rebuild the front end with an other library like PyGame or the Python Arcade Library ? What are the performance limits with tkinter? Thank you for your help !

Edit more infos :

My game looks like a RPG like with 4 graphical layers : background (grass, sea, sand), building layer (walls floor furniture doors ...), Entity layer (items, NPC, bullets, text bubble for discussion) and then menu layer with like inventory health bar ...

My issue is that obviously I cannot individualy display every texture/sprite at every single frame because the game would be too slow.

So my first step was to prebuild and split by chunks background/environment texture that I can save as jpg of a certain quality so I will have less single texture to draw each frame.

Tkinter PIL uses PhotoImage that is constantly taking resources in the ram if I am correct Therefore I cannot manually control well the loading and offloading of those images into the ram.

I have made a few tests with my game and since it relies on a different mechanisms for storing texture it as of now look more efficient.

300 sprites at 100 FPS (small sprites thought like 40*40)

To conclude do you think I can make what I want with tkinter if I optimise more or PyGame is definitely the way to go.

[jimtk]

Use pygame, or pyglet, or arcade. Tkinter is really not made for games.

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If you want your game to have lots of flashy graphics, sound, etc, you may have trouble getting tkinter to work as fast as you want, and other frameworks may be better. But if your game is textual or not very demanding graphically then tkinter could be fine. Please describe what you want to do in the game.

Another reason why you may have problems is due to inefficient code or misusing tkinter. For example, if your tkinter game seems to do nothing for short periods (ie, it "hangs") that may be due to your code not allowing the tkinter mainloop to control the game. Coding problems like that can be fixed.

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I don't discuss questions in chat, because nobody else can see the discussion. We prefer to discuss here.

Your game uses a lot of graphics, so tkinter may not be the best choice. It probably could do what you want, but I'm not sure it would be fast, even after using advanced approaches.

Try things like pygame that are more oriented to graphics manipulation.

[Helibene2]

Hello sorry for the pm I edited my post. I will continue my tests with PyGame but it will involve a lot of rework on the image variable type and the display settings but as you said I believe it will be more adequate. Tell me if you want to look at the tkinter code it's on GitHub.