Defold is a cross-platform, free, and source-available game engine developed by King, and later the Defold Foundation. It is used to create mostly two-dimensional

King released the Defold engine as a free development tool for any user, and by May 2020, it ceded control of the engine to the Defold Foundation, which

ported to WebAssembly via Emscripten include the following: The Unity, Defold, and Godot game engines provide an export option to HTML5, utilizing Emscripten

Björn (9 March 2021). "Developer case study - From fantasy computer to Defold". Defold Foundation. Retrieved 2 November 2021. Portal: Video games v t e

Limited National Railways of Zimbabwe Air Zimbabwe TelOne Cottco Zupco Defold Mine Kuvimba Mining House Silo investments National Oil Company of Zimbabwe

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Defold Product Overview Defold is a turn-key solution, providing everything you need to build a game. Learn about the major features of the engine on thi…

Sign up for Defold news We occasionally send product updates, game releases, and tips & tricks to our users. The e-mails are optional, sent out sparingly…

Frequently asked questions General questions Q: Is Defold really free? A: Yes, the Defold engine and editor with full functionality is completely free of…

Get inspired Family Island What would your life be without modern technology on the deserted island? Dive into simplicity of the primal world with the mo…

Why use Defold and not some other engine? We get this question from time to time and while it may seem like a simple question it is not really a question…

We occasionally send product updates, game releases, and tips & tricks to our users. The e-mails are optional, sent out sparingly (we dislike spam just as…

The Defold License Defold is created and distributed under the developer-friendly Defold License. The Defold License is derived from the popular Apache 2…

Support Defold The Defold Foundation is funding Defold development through community donations, corporate partners, partnership deals and support contrac…

The Defold Foundation The Defold Foundation is the owner of the free to use, source available, game engine Defold. Learn about the foundation objectives …

Contact Defold We look forward to hearing from you! We are here to support you if you need help getting started with Defold or if you have a question abo…

Defold is a free to use, source available, game engine with a developer-friendly license. Defold is owned and developed by the Defold Foundation. Source a…

Join the Defold community on Discord! The Defold community on Discord is a great way to stay in touch with fellow Defold developers, artists and amazing …

Download Defold Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of console, desktop, mobile and web games. There's nothing to set up or co…

About Curious about Defold? Learn what how to create great games using Defold. You will also find a brief history of the creation of Defold and how the s…

Contribute to Defold Join the Defold contributor team and help us shape the future of Defold! Learn what you can help out with and how to best contribute…

We are moving to Discord! We have decided to move the Defold community from Slack to Discord. This will bring more Defold developers together and also br…

Functions final() This is a callback-function, which is called by the engine when a script component is finalized (destroyed). It can be used to e.g. tak…

Functions msg.post() Post a message to a receiving URL. The most common case is to send messages to a component. If the component part of the receiver is…

sys.get_application_info() Returns a table with application information for the requested app. On iOS, the app_string is an url scheme for the app that i…

Functions final() This is a callback-function, which is called by the engine when a gui component is finalized (destroyed). It can be used to e.g. take s…

Get Support Need help? No problem! The developers frequently join our helpful community on the forum and discord. Additionally, at Defold we offer expert…

Domande sull’editor Q: What are the system requirements for the editor? A: The editor will use up to 75% of the available memory of the system. On a comp…

A: You will be able to create application bundles from the command line tools. Information about how to test on PlayStation®4, PlayStation®5 and Nintendo …

Q: Why does mouse clicks on Elementary OS go through the editor onto whatever is below? A: Start the editor like this: $ GTK_CSD=0 ./Defold Q: The Defold…

vmath.cross() Given two linearly independent vectors P and Q, the cross product, P × Q, is a vector that is perpendicular to both P and Q and therefore n…

Functions model.cancel() model.get_go() Gets the id of the game object that corresponds to a model skeleton bone. The returned game object can be used fo…

Functions assert() Issues an error when the value of its argument v is false (i.e., nil or false); otherwise, returns all its arguments. message is an er…

Functions sound.get_group_gain() Get mixer group gain Note that gain is in linear scale, between 0 and 1. To get the dB value from the gain, use the form…

Functions buffer.copy_buffer() Copy all data streams from one buffer to another, element wise. Each of the source streams must have a matching stream in …

render.constant_buffer() Constant buffers are used to set shader program variables and are optionally passed to the render.draw() function. The buffer's …

Functions string.byte() Returns the internal numerical codes of the characters s[i], s[i+1], ..., s[j]. The default value for i is 1; the default value f…

We would like to invite you to answer some questions about the current state of Defold. The survey is based on the replies we received in last year’s sur…

DEFOLD TERMS OF SERVICE OVERVIEW This overview provides a short explanation of the terms of service which govern your use of our Website, our Services an…

Why TypeScript? ✨ Defold uses Lua for its game scripting language, and it is an excellent choice! The ts-defold team loves Lua, and has worked with Lua f…

✓ Use basic building blocks to create complex behaviour. ✓ Everything you need to make a game in one tool ✓ Write game logic using Lua. ✓ Zero-config clo…

Defold is a cross-platform, free, and source-available game engine developed by King, and later the Defold Foundation. It is used to create mostly two-dimensional

Family Island What would your life be without modern technology on the deserted island? Dive into simplicity of the primal world with the modern Stone Ag…

King released the Defold engine as a free development tool for any user, and by May 2020, it ceded control of the engine to the Defold Foundation, which

ported to WebAssembly via Emscripten include the following: The Unity, Defold, and Godot game engines provide an export option to HTML5, utilizing Emscripten

Björn (9 March 2021). "Developer case study - From fantasy computer to Defold". Defold Foundation. Retrieved 2 November 2021. Portal: Video games v t e

Limited National Railways of Zimbabwe Air Zimbabwe TelOne Cottco Zupco Defold Mine Kuvimba Mining House Silo investments National Oil Company of Zimbabwe

Saved searches Use saved searches to filter your results more quickly You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You signed…

Sign up for Defold news We occasionally send product updates, game releases, and tips & tricks to our users. The e-mails are optional, sent out sparingly…

Press-kit Sign up for Defold news We occasionally send product updates, game releases, and tips & tricks to our users. The e-mails are optional, sent out…

Defold Product Overview Defold is a turn-key solution, providing everything you need to build a game. Learn about the major features of the engine on thi…

Sign up for Defold news We occasionally send product updates, game releases, and tips & tricks to our users. The e-mails are optional, sent out sparingly…

Frequently asked questions General questions Q: Is Defold really free? A: Yes, the Defold engine and editor with full functionality is completely free of…

Get inspired Family Island What would your life be without modern technology on the deserted island? Dive into simplicity of the primal world with the mo…

Why use Defold and not some other engine? We get this question from time to time and while it may seem like a simple question it is not really a question…

We occasionally send product updates, game releases, and tips & tricks to our users. The e-mails are optional, sent out sparingly (we dislike spam just as…

The Defold License Defold is created and distributed under the developer-friendly Defold License. The Defold License is derived from the popular Apache 2…

Support Defold The Defold Foundation is funding Defold development through community donations, corporate partners, partnership deals and support contrac…

The Defold Foundation The Defold Foundation is the owner of the free to use, source available, game engine Defold. Learn about the foundation objectives …

Contact Defold We look forward to hearing from you! We are here to support you if you need help getting started with Defold or if you have a question abo…

Defold is a free to use, source available, game engine with a developer-friendly license. Defold is owned and developed by the Defold Foundation. Source a…

Join the Defold community on Discord! The Defold community on Discord is a great way to stay in touch with fellow Defold developers, artists and amazing …

Download Defold Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of console, desktop, mobile and web games. There's nothing to set up or co…

About Curious about Defold? Learn what how to create great games using Defold. You will also find a brief history of the creation of Defold and how the s…

Contribute to Defold Join the Defold contributor team and help us shape the future of Defold! Learn what you can help out with and how to best contribute…

We are moving to Discord! We have decided to move the Defold community from Slack to Discord. This will bring more Defold developers together and also br…

Functions final() This is a callback-function, which is called by the engine when a script component is finalized (destroyed). It can be used to e.g. tak…

Functions msg.post() Post a message to a receiving URL. The most common case is to send messages to a component. If the component part of the receiver is…

sys.get_application_info() Returns a table with application information for the requested app. On iOS, the app_string is an url scheme for the app that i…

Functions final() This is a callback-function, which is called by the engine when a gui component is finalized (destroyed). It can be used to e.g. take s…

Get Support Need help? No problem! The developers frequently join our helpful community on the forum and discord. Additionally, at Defold we offer expert…

Domande sull’editor Q: What are the system requirements for the editor? A: The editor will use up to 75% of the available memory of the system. On a comp…

A: You will be able to create application bundles from the command line tools. Information about how to test on PlayStation®4, PlayStation®5 and Nintendo …

Q: Why does mouse clicks on Elementary OS go through the editor onto whatever is below? A: Start the editor like this: $ GTK_CSD=0 ./Defold Q: The Defold…

vmath.cross() Given two linearly independent vectors P and Q, the cross product, P × Q, is a vector that is perpendicular to both P and Q and therefore n…

Functions model.cancel() model.get_go() Gets the id of the game object that corresponds to a model skeleton bone. The returned game object can be used fo…

Functions assert() Issues an error when the value of its argument v is false (i.e., nil or false); otherwise, returns all its arguments. message is an er…

Functions sound.get_group_gain() Get mixer group gain Note that gain is in linear scale, between 0 and 1. To get the dB value from the gain, use the form…

Functions buffer.copy_buffer() Copy all data streams from one buffer to another, element wise. Each of the source streams must have a matching stream in …

render.constant_buffer() Constant buffers are used to set shader program variables and are optionally passed to the render.draw() function. The buffer's …

Functions string.byte() Returns the internal numerical codes of the characters s[i], s[i+1], ..., s[j]. The default value for i is 1; the default value f…

We would like to invite you to answer some questions about the current state of Defold. The survey is based on the replies we received in last year’s sur…

DEFOLD TERMS OF SERVICE OVERVIEW This overview provides a short explanation of the terms of service which govern your use of our Website, our Services an…

Why TypeScript? ✨ Defold uses Lua for its game scripting language, and it is an excellent choice! The ts-defold team loves Lua, and has worked with Lua f…

✓ Use basic building blocks to create complex behaviour. ✓ Everything you need to make a game in one tool ✓ Write game logic using Lua. ✓ Zero-config clo…