strange... to avoid this kind of errors I usually pack everything I can with the application: the nosnb.ttf font (a standard nokia font on the n810) should be under a directory data at the same level of nrace.py togheter with the background pic, in your case:
but if you received the same error even with the .deb I would believe is something bad with the pygame library installed on the tablet
the
thing make me think
should be possible to test if you have that pygame module installed using the python commandline:
you should receive just the 2 usual pygame RuntimeWarnings about the missin modules cdrom and joystick
(retyping the import pygame.font a second time shoudl give you a cleaner feedback (no feedback at all in case of success)
To see the different answers you could try to import another pygame module less 'exotic' like:
or a mispelled one like
that should return with something like
In case you want give it a second shot I packed another version that should use a font already installed on the nokia (no more paths for the fonts but still use the pygame calls)

https://garage.maemo.org/frs/downloa...nrace02.tar.gz

buonanotte