Pyxen — Press Kit

Pyxen is a Python game creation studio for iPad and Mac. It launched on the App Store on 23 March 2026 as a single universal app for iPad and Mac, with no separate "Pro" tier — the same purchase unlocks every feature on every device.

Most game-making apps on iPad fall into two camps: visual block coders aimed at children, or stripped-down code editors that don't actually run anything. Pyxen is neither. It is a real game development environment built around a clean, beginner-friendly Python API and a high-performance C++ ECS engine, with a native code editor, sprite editor, and game preview in a single document-based app.

The build-run-debug loop is fast: write code, tap Run, see the game running on the same screen. Edit a sprite and the change appears in the running game on reload. When something breaks, the time-travel debugger steps back up to 300 frames so you can inspect every entity, component, transform, and state change frame by frame.

Sharing a finished game is a single tap. Pyxen uploads the project as a WebAssembly build to play.pyxen.com and gives you a playable link — recipients open it in a browser, no account, no install. The same export ships as a self-contained web archive that can be hosted on itch.io or anywhere else, so a game made on iPad lives outside the app and outside the App Store.

Five complete sample games ship in the app with full source code: Pong, Game of Life, Particles, Platformer, and Dungeon Survivors. Four public-domain pixel art asset packs are bundled. Every sample is a working starting point — read it, fork it, modify it.

Pyxen works offline. Projects are regular .pyxen files (ZIP archives) that work with Files, iCloud, AirDrop, and any cloud sync the user already uses; the app does not require an account and contains no ads or analytics. The free download is the full editor with up to three projects of any size, and games shared or exported from it carry an evaluation watermark; a single one-time purchase lifts both.