On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 05:31:14PM -0600, John Reese wrote: > Now I need to find an IDE that facilitates development of simple > graphical games, and/or a simple graphical modeling program. No IDE, but it has some decent howto's: pygame.org Or this one that I have recently found interesting: www.pyglet.org The Pyglet is interesting in that it is all Python and does not need any other dependencies for writing a simple game. Kelly