# Pyskool: reimplementing Skool Daze and Back to Skool

> Pyskool reimplements the ZX Spectrum games Skool Daze and Back to Skool in Python and Pygame. Its shared engine supports configuration-file and Python-code customization, and its setup generates the launchers, images, configuration and sounds used to play.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/skoolkid/pyskool>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/skoolkid/pyskool/blob/ac416334c607b68a60b9cd0f37058347d914d877/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/pyskool-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/pyskool-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/pyskool-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Python 3.10 or newer and Pygame are required.
- **Prerequisites:** Run the setup target to create launchers, images, configuration and sound files before playing.
- **License:** GPL-3.0 License.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/skoolkid/pyskool/blob/ac416334c607b68a60b9cd0f37058347d914d877/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/skoolkid/pyskool/blob/ac416334c607b68a60b9cd0f37058347d914d877/CLAUDE.md>

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