Kai: Yes, I think that Pygame does a great job with 2D. As soon as I saw Pete Shinners’ SolarWolf at http://www.pygame.org/shredwheat/solarwolf/ , I was convinced that Pygame was special. If ever I do decide to jump into 3D, I still hope that I’ll be able to write my code in Python.

I think when I *would* fall back to C++ anytime, I will focus on e.g. Ogre, Irrlicht or something like that. I wouldn’t learn C++ again to make similar games only a bit faster. For now, I simply want to learn how to make good 2d games that work. Will see when I add the third generation and (eventually) fall back to C++.