- SDL: cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. (http://www.libsdl.org/index.php)
- pyGame: set of Python modules designed for writing games. It is written on top of the excellent SDL library. This allows you to create fully featured games and multimedia programs in the python language. (http://www.pygame.org/)
A more complete toolset list can be found on the Ogre3D wiki (http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/AssemblingAToolset)