Defold

Defold

Alan Pope (popey) Publisher Star developer Star developer

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The game engine for high-performance cross-platform games

Defold comes fully featured out of the box. There's nothing to set up or configure, not even when building. Simply download the editor and get creative!

No setup

 ✓ Visual Editor          ✓ Scene Editor
 ✓ Code Editor            ✓ Particle Editor
 ✓ Lua Scripting          ✓ Tilemap Editor
 ✓ Lua Debugger           ✓ 2D & 3D

Truly cross-platform

 ✓ PlayStation®4          ✓ Windows
 ✓ Nintendo Switch        ✓ Steam
 ✓ Android                ✓ HTML5
 ✓ iOS                    ✓ Facebook
 ✓ macOS                  ✓ Q3 2023 PlayStation®5
 ✓ Linux                  ✓ Q2 2024 XBox

Turn-key solution

 ✓ 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 cloud build for native code

Custom configuration

 ✓ Add new functionality from the Asset Portal.
 ✓ Setup your own local build environment.
 ✓ Write your own native code to extend the engine.
 ✓ Integrated with tools such as Atom, VS Code, Spine and Tiled.

Free. Forever.

 ✓ No up-front cost.
 ✓ No licensing cost.
 ✓ No royalties.
 ✓ No runtime fee.
 ✓ Free forever. Thanks to the objectives of the Defold Foundation 

Production ready

 ✓ Proven track record of game releases on mobile, web, desktop and consoles. 
 ✓ Integrations with analytics, app economy and game services available out of the box.
 ✓ Actively developed, with a new release every month.
 ✓ Technical support contracts available if needed. 

This is an unofficial package.

Licensed under the Defold License.

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