Software+Modules

 [|Pygame]** - a Python module for rendering 2D graphics and sprites, easy to learn and very useful. (Python 2.6)
 * Python Modules:
 * [|NumPy]** - "NumPy is the fundamental package needed for scientific computing with Python" (Python 2.6)
 * [|wxPython]** - wxPython is a GUI creator module for python, very well made and good for almost any project! (Python 2.6)
 * [|PyCrypto]** - The python Cryptography module, useful for encoding data and the such. (Python 2.6)
 * [|PIL]** - The Python Image Library for editing and manipulating images within python (Python 2.5)
 * [|Panda3D]**- a Python module for rendering 3D graphics, very cool and fast! comes with its own distro of python! (Python 2.5)