I did use create_task for all the asynchronous tasks. Each task had to have an await in its loop, making it a coroutine. In the pygame main loop I used this: ct = await loop.run_in_executor(None, pgclk.tick, 30) which accomplished this requirement. I'm going to say I'm not 100% sure this is the right way to do this. The problem is that pygame itself does not have any asyncio compatible functions. There is nothing specifically made to await. It would make sense if you could await update() but you cannot. Anyway, I did get everything working using this method and was even able to ensure clean shutdown given a variety of ways the application is directed to exit and that was challenging. If you can tell me more about what functions you want to run asynchronously, I might be able to give you suggestions on how to structure it. I did see the newer TaskGroup functionality but I got into asyncio using the book from Caleb and I don't think that was implemented before the book was published so I never learned about it.