Real Python. Real games. On iPad.
No visual blocks, no toy language. Pyxen pairs a real Python runtime with a tiny entity-component engine and a side-by-side game preview. Write the code, tap Run, see your game — that's the whole loop.
A complete game creation studio for iPad and Mac.
Make real games in Python.
The whole loop in one app: code, sprites, debugger, and a playable link in one tap. iPad and Mac. One-time purchase.
The hook
Time-travel debugger
Rewind time. Inspect everything.
When something breaks, step back up to 300 frames and inspect every entity, every component, every transform — frame by frame. Understand what your code is doing, not what you think it's doing.
Built-in sprite editor
Paint pixels. See them live.
A full pixel art editor with layers, selection, animation timeline with onion skin, symmetry, palettes, and eyedropper. Edit a sprite, reload — your game updates instantly. No external tools.
Instant Share
Tap share. Get a playable link.
One tap uploads your game to play.pyxen.com and gives you a link. Recipients open it in their browser — no app, no install, no account. The same export ships as a self-contained web archive you can host on itch.io or anywhere else.
Real games
Not a toy. Real games actually run.
60 fps rendering, scene graph, grid collisions, tweens, gamepad support. Dungeon Survivors runs hundreds of entities at full speed. Whatever you build runs the same on iPad and Mac.
Learn from real games
Open Pong. Read the code. Make it yours.
Five complete sample games ship with full source code and step-by-step guides — Pong, Game of Life, Particles, Platformer, Dungeon Survivors. Every sample is a working starting point: open it, modify it, ship your version.
Mac
Five complete sample games
Read the code. Modify it. Make it yours.
Every sample ships with full source code. Pong, Game of Life, Particles, Platformer, and Dungeon Survivors — open one, hit Run, and start changing things.
Here for the long run
Built to still be here when you finish your game.
Pyxen is made by Gargant, an independent studio that has been shipping Apple software since 2011, still maintains its first app, and answers to no investors. That matters for a tool you learn on: the Python you write here, and the games you build with it, are not waiting on someone else to decide this product is still strategic next year.
Native
Built for iPad and Mac.
SwiftUI on both platforms. Metal renderer for the game preview. No Electron, no web wrapper — a real Apple app that opens instantly, runs your game at 60 fps, and respects the conventions of every device.
iPad
Apple Pencil for sprites, Stage Manager, external keyboard, USB controllers, drag-and-drop assets
Mac
Multi-window, full menu bar, separate game preview window, keyboard shortcuts, MFi and generic gamepads via Game Controller
One price. One purchase.
Try the full app for free. Purchase when you're ready.
Pyxen
$19.99 iPad & Mac · one-time
- Free to evaluate — the full editor, three projects of any size
- The purchase lifts the project limit and the watermark on shared games
- Every feature included — no Pro tier, no add-ons
- One purchase covers iPad and Mac. No account needed.
Make a game today.
Free to evaluate. One purchase lifts every limit.