Pick a starter. Press Run. Make it yours.
Thirteen starters, from Runner to Farming, each a small game that plays on its first Run. A Guide walks you through your first changes: the speed, the hero, the next level.
In your browser · Mac · Windows · iPad
A complete game‑making studio.
Code, pixel art, sound and a time-travel debugger in one place, and a link anyone can play.
Download for Mac Download for Windows
Pyxen 26.8 · macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon and Intel
Download for Windows · All downloads
Pyxen 26.8 · Windows 10 or 11 · 64-bit
Download for Mac · All downloads
Open in your browser
A free trial on a computer. Nothing to install.
Pyxen for iPad and Mac. App Store versions follow Apple's review.
On a computer, open Pyxen in your browser, or download it for Mac and Windows.
On iPad: Pyxen is also on the App Store, for iPad and Mac.
For Mac and Windows, open pyxen.com on your computer.
A game in minutes
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Runner one button -
Rhythm tap the beat -
Clicker tap and grow -
Mini Golf aim and putt -
Match-3 swap -
Platformer jump -
Brick Breaker bounce -
Shooter fire -
Adventure explore -
Tower Defense build and defend -
Puzzle push -
Card battler draw and play -
Farming plant and grow
Everything in one window
Code, pixel art and sound, side by side.
Write Pyxen Script, a Python dialect made for games, with the game running beside it. Draw the sprites, make the sounds, press Run again: no other tool to open.
Code
Python for games, with completion, Help beside it and the game in the Preview.
Pixel art
Layers, an animation timeline with onion skin, palettes. Save, and the game shows it.
Sound
Effects from presets or your own voice, shaped with reverb, fades and pitch.
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.
Instant Share
Share a link anyone can play.
One click puts your game on play.pyxen.com and gives you a link that plays in any browser, on a phone too, with nothing to install. Or export a web build to put on itch.io or anywhere else.
Learn
Learn by making.
Guides of a few steps run inside the editor, and each step is done when your game does the thing. Then sample games with their full code, from Pong to Dungeon Survivors, and Help for every part of the API.
Where Pyxen runs
In your browser, on your computer, on your iPad.
The same studio, drawn by Pyxen's own core in each. Projects are files: a .pyxen opens in every one.
In your browser
A free trial on a computer. Nothing to install. Your projects stay in that browser; download them any time.
Open in your browser →On a computer, open Pyxen in your browser.
Mac
macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon and Intel
Updates itself, from pyxen.com
Download for Mac → On iPad: Pyxen on the App Store
Pyxen for iPad and Mac. App Store versions follow Apple's review.
Unlock Pyxen once.
Try the full app for free. Purchase when you're ready.
Free to try
$0no time limit
- The full editor, every starter and sample
- 3 saved projects of any size
- Games shared or exported carry a watermark
Pyxen, full licence
$29.99$39.99Launch price until 27 November$39.99Mac and Windows · one-time · from pyxen.com
- As many saved projects as you like
- Games and builds without the watermark
- One key for 2 computers at once, Mac or Windows
- Updates included
Not on sale yetSee pricing
Prices in US dollars. On the App Store, Pyxen for iPad and Mac is a separate purchase ($19.99), bought in the app.
Who makes it
Made by Gargant.
Pyxen is made by Gargant, an independent studio in France that makes creative tools, shipping since 2011, with no investors.
Make a game today.
Free to try, with no time limit.
Download for Mac Download for Windows
Pyxen 26.8 · macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon and Intel
Download for Windows · All downloads
Pyxen 26.8 · Windows 10 or 11 · 64-bit
Download for Mac · All downloads
Open in your browser
A free trial on a computer. Nothing to install.
Pyxen for iPad and Mac. App Store versions follow Apple's review.
On a computer, open Pyxen in your browser, or download it for Mac and Windows.
On iPad: Pyxen is also on the App Store, for iPad and Mac.
For Mac and Windows, open pyxen.com on your computer.