Contest Guidelines, Rules, and Submission
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Registration Open
Jun 1st 2025
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Registration Closes
Sep 10th 2025
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Submissions Due
Dec 15, 2025
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Winners Declared
Mar 15th, 2026
Python Game
Python Game
The Challenge
Are you a budding game developer? Do you want to showcase your Python coding skills? Code in Python and develop a game that will be fun, exciting and challenging! Read on to learn the rules.
Rules
1. Create a single-player game using the Python programming language.
2. Must be written EXCLUSIVELY in Python 3.
3. Supporting languages (e.g., C/C++/Javascript libraries) CANNOT be used.
4. The game must have the following features: a) provide rewards that add up to the score, b) obstacles/danger, c) score display, d)3 levels of progressive difficulty, e) 3 lives, f) leaderboard, and g) a timer.
5. Teams are NOT ALLOWED to take an existing game and write a Python wrapper or API to it.
6. Teams can use existing Python game libraries (e.g., Pygame or Pyglet).
7. The final program must include all the necessary import commands and must be self-contained.
8. Include a title screen with a list of team members and a summary of the game’s objectives/rules, and include the leaderboard and any credits at the end.
What to submit?
Submission guidelines will be posted closer to the deadline. Stay tuned!
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