Recommended game IDE on Ubuntu 18.04

[GarDebs]

Hi,

I hope someone can help me.

My son is really interested in learning game programming in Python. I've tried Spyder but cant get Pygame installed.

Any suggestions on what I can use that I can just download and install without the need for additional modules to be added.

He is using Ubuntu 18.04

Appreciate any comments or feedback

Thanks
Gary

[nilamo]

What errors did you get while installing pygame? Can you copy/paste the messages you get when running pip install pygame?

[GarDebs]

pip install pygame

works but when I try to run some basic code that uses the pygame module I get this error

ModuleNotFoundError: No Module Named 'pygame' on line 2

I am using Spyder (Python 3.6) on Ubuntu 18.04

Here is the code I'm trying to run

# Pygame template - skeleton for a new pygame project
import pygame
import random

WIDTH = 360
HEIGHT = 480
FPS = 30

# define colors
WHITE = (255, 255, 255)
BLACK = (0, 0, 0)
RED = (255, 0, 0)
GREEN = (0, 255, 0)
BLUE = (0, 0, 255)

# initialize pygame and create window
pygame.init()
pygame.mixer.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((WIDTH, HEIGHT))
pygame.display.set_caption("My Game")
clock = pygame.time.Clock()

# Game loop
running = True
while running:
    # keep loop running at the right speed
    clock.tick(FPS)
    # Process input (events)
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        # check for closing window
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            running = False

    # Update

    # Draw / render
    screen.fill(BLACK)
    # *after* drawing everything, flip the display
    pygame.display.flip()

pygame.quit()

[snippsat]

From command line.

pip -V
pip3 -V

Dos pip3 point to 3.6:

pip3 install pygame

Problem finding pip3.

sudo apt install python3-pip

Also look pyenv Simple Python Version Management can make easier in future to upgrade and use other versions.

[GarDebs]

Success!!! Thanks a million