Being a commit-privileged developer for and on Pygame since 2007, I started to rewrite it (more or less) from scratch in 2008. The motivation was to remove various structural weaknesses, add a higher level of modularization and an easier way to integrate new modules into the package structure of Pygame.

The result was Pygame Reloaded, a loosely coupled set of packages and modules around the most important SDL libraries as well as certain enhancements taken from the original Pygame.

It grew into too many directions, though and was revamped once more at the end of 2012, resulting in PySDL2 and PyAL, dedicated wrappers around SDL2 and OpenAL.