Space-Invaders-Pygame | Creating the game Space Invaders using Pygame Module | Game Engine library

I have not used cxFreeze before, so I cannot directly help with your issue, but I would really recommend using pyinstaller to package python programs. I have used it with pygame before and it has worked fine, and doesn't even require a setup file.

Pyinstaller can be installed using pip, and to package a file you call: pyinstaller file.py, along with any flags you may need. In general, I use pyinstaller file.py --onefile --noconsole, which creates a single executable file.

Pyinstaller does not package asset files, so you must supply them with the project, but all python files used by the project (including libraries) are packaged, so no code needs to be supplied with the project.

Pyinstaller can be temperamental sometimes, so I'd recommend first creating a simple hello world file, and packaging it using pyinstaller helloworld.py --onefile, and then running the file in the dist/ folder.

The docs are not always very helpful for pyinstaller, but I found that the best way to learn to package projects is slowly increase the complexity of the projects you try packaging, and check each project works after packaging.

If you use relative script and asset imports (e.g. pygame.image.load('image.png')), you'll need to move the resulting .exe to the original script's location (the .exe is normally created in the dist/ folder, which will not work if you use relative imports and run the .exe from there.

If you want to add an icon, you can use the --icon flag like this: pyinstaller file.py --icon=image.ico (the icon file must be a .ico file - you can always you online converters if need be)