Downloading pygame games without pygame?

Question

This is a simple question. I have been making a game, and I wanted some of my friends to be able to download it online. Do they have to have pygame and python installed on t

Answer 1

Yes users need a Python interpreter and a reference to Pygame to execute your program – since your game is written in Python and uses the third party library Pygame.

That said, you could consider to use

• cx_Freeze,
• pyInstaller or for example
• py2app (for Mac users)

to freeze your Python scripts into an executable and to make a standalone application which your friends could download and execute without having Python and / or Pygame installed on their computers.

The Pygame wiki gives you an example how to compile a Pygame app to a standalone windows application using py2exe.