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.
No visual blocks: you type code. Pyxen pairs Pyxen Script, a Python dialect made for games, 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.
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.
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.
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.
A steady 30 fps, 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.
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
Every sample ships with full source code. Pong, Game of Life, Particles, Platformer, and Dungeon Survivors — open one, hit Run, and start changing things.
Pyxen is made by Gargant, an independent studio in France that makes creative tools, shipping since 2011, with 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.
One interface, drawn by Pyxen's own core, 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 a steady 30 fps, and respects the conventions of every device.
Try the full app for free. Purchase when you're ready.
Free to try: the full editor, three projects of any size. Games shared or exported from it carry a watermark.
Bought in the app, on the App Store. Prices in US dollars; the App Store shows the price where you live.
Bought Pyxen before? It stays unlocked, on the iPad and the Mac.
Free to evaluate. One purchase lifts every limit.