Pyxen - Python Game Maker
Make games with Python.
Free · In-App Purchases
New in 26.6: Pyxen opens to a home screen. Pick up where you left off, or start from an example or a snippet — each one showing a cover taken from the game itself.
Pyxen is a Python game programming studio.
Build games, tap Share, and anyone can play them in their browser. Design sprites, animate them, write code, and debug — all in one app.
Pyxen is designed for beginners and experienced programmers alike. It stays simple on the surface, while offering powerful systems underneath.
HOME SCREEN
• Pyxen opens to a home screen, not a file browser — Continue, Examples and Snippets, each with a cover taken from the game itself
• 74 snippets, grouped by what they do rather than by how hard they are
Somewhere to start, every time you open the app.
INSTANT SHARE
• Tap Share and get a playable link — anyone can play your game in their browser.
• No account needed — just tap, share, done.
• Or export a web archive to host on itch.io or your own site.
Your games live outside the app.
SPRITE EDITOR & ANIMATION
• Draw and edit sprites with pixel-perfect tools
• Layers, selection tools, symmetry, flip/rotate, clipboard
• Animation timeline — name your animations, set FPS, preview with onion skin
• Paint pixel art and see changes instantly in your running game
Design your game art and animations without leaving the app.
SMOOTH MOTION & ANIMATION
• Tween any property — position, scale, rotation, alpha — with 16 easing functions
• Oscillate and spin for continuous effects
• Sprite animations play from tile sheets: Sprite("hero", animation="walk")
• Draw shapes — rectangles, circles, lines, polylines — from code
Animate everything, from characters to UI.
CODE EDITOR
• Syntax highlighting and smart indentation
• Context-aware autocomplete
• Jump to Symbol — navigate your project instantly
• Jump to Definition — tap any function to see its source
• Word-wise navigation with Option+Arrow
Write real code, not blocks.
A SMALL, FOCUSED GAME ENGINE
• High-performance C++ ECS core
• Clean, beginner-friendly Python API
• Scene graph with layers and parent-child hierarchy
• Grid-based collision system
• Save and load game data with the storage API
• Configurable resolution — 160×90, 320×180, or 480×270
Built to be learned, not hidden.
BUILT-IN FONT EDITOR
• Create bitmap fonts from system or custom fonts
• Configure character sets, size, and anti-aliasing
• Live atlas preview — see exactly what ships with your game
• Use the Text component to render text in your games
No external tools needed for text rendering.
INSPECTION & DEBUGGING
• Rewind time and inspect previous frames
• Explore entities and components live
• Scene outliner and inspector cards
• Visual tools to understand state and behavior
Learn by seeing, not guessing.
LEARN FROM REAL GAMES
• Sample games with full source code — Pong, Platformer, Dungeon Survivors
• Public-domain pixel art asset packs included
YOUR DATA, ALWAYS YOURS
• Pyxen works 100% offline
• No account required, no ads, no tracking
Projects are regular files, compatible with iCloud and the Files app. There's no proprietary cloud lock-in — your creations are yours.
FREE TO EVALUATE
Pyxen is free to download and evaluate, with no time limit. You can make three projects for free, as big as you like — there is no cap on scripts, images, sounds or tilemaps inside them. Projects you already have always open and stay editable. Games you share carry an evaluation watermark. A single one-time purchase lifts every limit, forever.
No subscriptions.
Quiet, capable, and yours.
Ratings & Reviews
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Pyxen 26.6.1 — fixes for snippets and your projects.
- Five snippets, among them the first one on the home screen, "start() / update()", wouldn't open: Pyxen said a folder didn't exist. They open as projects now, named after the snippet.
- Continue shows each project once, with its cover and Delete.
- A project you delete or rename in Pyxen no longer stays in Continue as "Can't find this one" or under its old name.
- The home screen counts your projects correctly as soon as it opens.
- The Game of Life sample runs again.
- Your existing projects are unchanged.
The developer, Gargant, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
Accessibility
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Information
- Provider
- Gargant
- Size
- 109.7 MB
- Category
- Developer Tools
- Compatibility
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
- iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.4 or later.
- iPad
- Languages
English and 6 more
- English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Pyxen — Full Version $19.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Gargant

