Defold Engine

Defold 1.14.0 has been released! 🚀 This is a big one, bringing: 🎮 #XBOX support! 📱 iPhone Duo safe area, iOS 27, and more 📈 Support for up to 1M game objects 🧊 Cubemap render targets 🎨 Redesigned Material Editor ...and many more! defold.com/2026/10/12/D... #Defold #gamedev #gameengine

Defold 1.14.1 BETA is here! 🔤 Vector fonts & colorful emojis support🥳 🎆 Faster particle rendering 🎞️ Flexible tile animations ⏺️ Native MP4 recording 🔀 SIMD texture-processing optimizations 🌐 HTML5 improvements 📦 Improved glTF support forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-1... #Defold #gamedev #indiedev

We're happy to anounce the first Defold + Minit Game Jam, starting October 28! 🚀 You'll have 2 weeks to create a bite-sized #webgame with #Defold! 🏆 Cash prizes for the best games! Ready for the challenge? 🔥 forum.defold.com/t/defold-min... #GameJam #gamedev #indiedev #webgamedev #MadeWithDefold

Control thousands of objects with Defold Crowd! 🎉 This extension by @selimanac.bsky.social brings ORCA-based crowd avoidance ✅ Circular and polygonal obstacle avoidance ✅ Navigation masks and configurable behavior ✅ Parallel simulation with Defold JobSystem (in Pro) defold.com/assets/crowd/

Would you like to build a #metroidvania? The Microvania Toolkit by Schlista is now available for #Defold! ✅ 57 ready-made templates for Tiled ✅ Movement, combat, puzzles, and boss fights ✅ Rooms, world maps, and exploration systems Check: defold.com/assets/micro... #gamedev #indiedev #gamedev

Happy #ScreenshotSaturday! Show us your games and projects #MadeWithDefold 🧡💙 Featured: Game of Fitna - out now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2725340/... #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

Missed our October newsletter? Or not subscribed yet? 📬 No worries, you can catch up on all the latest Defold news on our blog! 🎮 Defold 1.14.0 with Xbox support 🏆 Defold Game Jam 2026 winners 🤝 Minit Games joins Defold Foundation and more! Check here! 👇 defold.com/2026/10/13/N...

We’re very happy to share wit you our new sample game: Starbreaker - a complete, playable 3D space shooter web game designed as a starting point for developers, made in collaboration with @poki.com 🔗 github.com/defold/sampl... #Defold #Poki #webgames #MadeWithDefold #gamedev #opensource

Defold now supports all 3 major consoles, completely free of charge for approved developers. 🎮 Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 & 5, and now Xbox! 🌐 Web: HTML5, #Poki, #Wavedash, YT Playables, and more 📱 Mobile: Android, iOS 💻 PC: Windows, macOS, Linux, Steam Deck #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

We're very happy to announce that Defold now officially supports XBOX! 🎮 Starting with Defold 1.14.0, approved developers can bring their games to #XBOX consoles completely free of charge! We can’t wait to see your #Defold games on @xbox.com 💚 Announcement: defold.com/2026/10/12/D...

My game placed 14th out of 77 games, and I think that’s a pretty good result for my first finished game jam! There were so many warm comments, and I’m so grateful for all of them! 💙 And I’m so excited about making new games! 👾

New Community Extension added to our Asset Portal: Defold MCP by zrnge defold.com/assets/defol... This is a new adition to the list of existing community MCP for Defold: Fulviuss: github.com/Fulviuus/def... ChadAragorn: github.com/ChadAragorn/... iflow: libraries.io/npm/@iflow-m...

Defold Game Jam 2026 - Winners Announced! 🎉 A huge congratulations to everyone who participated, created a game, and shared it with the community! ❤️ Best games: 🥇 Ash Islands by Estel 🥈 Chreeaktor! by Aragast Games 🥉 Power Line Tycoon by Maks and more - details: forum.defold.com/t/defold-gam...

And will close this day with start new game, with @defold.com So today I learn using "mesh", how to make a plane buffer, and compare with sprite

Defold is now the Official Game Engine Partner of Cosmo Hacks 2026! 💫 This year's theme: Tech for Student & Community Life 🗓️December 18-21 Make a game with #Defold and win rewards! $150k+ in sponsor prizes including our Defold challenge! #gamedev #hackathon #indiedev #gamejam

Check out a new release of Panthera - a powerful animation suite for Defold by @insality.bsky.social Create, customize, and reuse animations using Defold GUI nodes or game objects with ease - now with even more examples to explore! 🧡💙 #MadeWithDefold #animation #gui #Lua #gamedev #indiedev

We're excited to welcome Minit Games as a new Partner of the Defold Foundation! 🤝 Minit Games is a platform for instant-play micro-games like in a social media feed! Together, we'll be helping bring #MadeWithDefold #webgames to #Minit! Full announcement: defold.com/2026/10/08/M...

Pixel art and mesh deformations? 🐉 Experimenting with pixel art support in #SpriteLoop and #Defold! #2d #animation #gamedevtools #indiedev #solodev

We're happy to announce we are sponsoring rewards for the 10 best games #MadeWithDefold at Pixel Forge MEGA Jam that has $30,000+ in cash and prizes in total already! 🚀 November 28 🗓️ More details: forum.defold.com/t/pixel-forg...

I’m working on mesh deformation for #SpriteLoop and I’m curious what kind of mesh bending would actually be useful for your game animations? What would you want to animate with it? Would love to hear some real use cases? #2d #animation #gamedevtools #indiedev #solodev

Meet Cillian aka Fatal Exit - solo developer, musician and game jam veteran in our newest Creator Spotlight interview! We talked about #webgames, #gamejams, performance, porting projects to #Defold, #Wavedash and AI-assisted development. Read the full interview: defold.com/2026/10/01/C...

Hacktoberfest 2026 is a great opportunity to help make #Defold better!🎃 The formula is a bit different, affected by the impact of AI, but it's still here to celebrate community projects and contribute to the software you like 🧡 More: forum.defold.com/t/hacktoberf... #Hacktoberfest #gamedev

And that's it! 229 people joined our #DefoldGameJam 78 submitted a game #MadeWithDefold Congratulations to all the participants and thank you very much for joining our (biggest so far!) game jam! 🧡💙

Prepare the page and upload your games - we accept submissions to the #DefoldGameJam 2026 until 23:59:59 CEST today! #MadeWithDefold #indiedev #gamejam #gamedev

If you're coming to GiC in Poznań and will feel bored - I invite you to my presentation about web games market nobody talks about! Zapraszam! #webgames #webgamedev #gamedev #indiedev #Poki #Wavedash #CrazyGames #Defold #Unity #Construct #ThreeJS #PixiJS

Now you've got to show us what you've made for #DefoldGameJam and all your projects as it's last #ScreenshotSaturday before the jam ends! 👀 Featured: Cafe Bara by Kuyi Mobile - play on Poki!

We’re happy to announce that the Defold Foundation has joined the Sustainable Games Alliance! 🌱 With Defold 1.13.2 now released, developers can also use the Energy Saver extension easily. 🔋 We’re very happy to join this gentle and growing group and help make energy-efficient games. 💚

Happy to see the new experiments with 3D physics by Dragosha! Defold 1.13.2 brought some major improvements to the workflow! You can now use meshes directly as 3D collision shapes and take much deeper control of 3D physics with the new Bullet3D Lua API #Defold #MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev

It’s unusual, but just a day after releasing Defold 1.13.2, we’re already starting the Defold 1.14.0 Beta! We want to prepare Defold for iPhone Duo - but that's not all! Read the full Defold 1.14.0 Beta release notes: forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-1...

A small #Defold teaser 👀 @jcash.bsky.social is working on vector font rendering using existing .ttf / .otf font support. This allows for highly detailed, more readable glyphs and there’s another nice side effect: emoji support! 😃🥳🎉 Stay tuned, it should come even this year 🧡💙

Day 7 of #DefoldGameJam 2026 starts and today is #ScreenshotSaturday so we're doubling our requests for screenshots, gifs, videos of what are you working on in #Defold! 🧡💙 Featured: Demidoff Corp by Targem Games a cool #metroidvania #MadeWithDefold Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/5089550/...

Day 6 of #DefoldGameJam 2026 starts! 🎮 Did you know that we shared with our participants links to free audio packs, plus a specia Bundle Builder with exclusive discounts? Ovani Sound sponsors a total of $950 in store credits for the best 4 games + one main theme for the best one! 🎶

Here's a short guide what is a skybox, cubemap and how to use them in Defold: forum.defold.com/t/cubemap-sk...

Day 4 of #DefoldGameJam 2026 starts! 🎮 If your prototype still needs some art, check out CraftPix.net - free and premium 2D and 3D game assets. Top 4 games will receive a 1-year CraftPix Ultimate Access membership 🎁 Craftpix is also celebrating their 10th anniversary this year - happy birthday! 🎂

SpriteLoop is now on the Defold Asset Portal! 🎨✨ It is a free 2D cut-out animation tool with a dedicated Defold integration, including native playback, editor support, events, skins, variants, tinting, Lua helpers and more. defold.com/assets/sprit... #MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev

Day 3 of #DefoldGameJam 2026! 🎮 By now, it’s probably a good time to wrap up ideation and start building. Check out assets by @kenney.nl - available completely 🆓 The top 4 games will receive rewards from Kenney: 🎁 Kenney Game Assets All-in-1 🏭 Asset Forge Deluxe #gamedev #indiedev #gamejam

We started #DefoldGameJam 2026 and more than 200 developers have already joined!🔥 This year’s theme is CHAIN REACTION ⛓️💥 And today we have one final Online Conference call with Defold team - ask us questions! Link: meet.google.com/rhn-ateo-cqy #DefoldGameJam #gamedev #indiedev

The theme of the #DefoldGameJam 2026 is: CHAIN REACTION ⛓️💥 Interpret it as broadly as you like. It could mean, e.g.: dominos, destruction, combos, spreading fire, infection, production chains, systems, narrative consequences, etc. Good luck, have fun, and create a game #MadeWithDefold! 🧡💙

Hello, it’s #ScreenshotSaturday! 🎮 A perfect day to share what you’re working on, and an especially busy weekend for our community: 🎤 Online Conference continues today 🚀 Game Jam starts tomorrow! Featured: Once Upon a Galaxy by Million Dreams Games #MadeWithDefold 🌌 galaxy.fun

On Saturday, 3 more talks are coming to our small Defold Conference before the #DefoldGameJam 2026! Join us today! We’ll start at 17:00 CEST: 1️⃣ SpriteLoop - 2D animation workflow with Samuil 2️⃣ Poki talk + Q&A with Erik 3️⃣ Photon talk + Q&A with Luke Details: itch.io/jam/defold-g...

Your games can easily use less energy! 🔋 We're happy to share with you the new official Energy Saver extension for Defold 🌱 The extension was created in collaboration with the Sustainable Games Alliance 💙 Details: forum.defold.com/t/official-e... #MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev

We start the Defold Online Conference with a talk by Andy Tran from Heroic Labs: So You Want to Add Multiplayer? A practical introduction to Heroic Labs' game tech stack Join us in an hour, here: meet.google.com/qsk-royq-itz

We're happy to share the new official YouTube Playables SDK extension for Defold! ▶️ Many of you asked for this, so we’re curious about your plans and games — share them with us, especially when you publish on YouTube Playables! ❤️ #MadeWithDefold #gamedev #YouTubePlayables

Days left until #DefoldGameJam 2026: 2️⃣ And today our small Defold Online Conference begins 🎤 Join the talks and ask questions during live Q&A We also have a generous pool of rewards for best games and a few challenges 🎁 Check the details about talks and rewards here: itch.io/jam/defold-g...

Interesting find: Tilemaps Store for Defold. Tilemaps is a free collaborative online tilemap editor and marketplace - with the Defold integration, you can browse and import Defold-ready tilemaps and assets into your project Check it out: github.com/EVEVGames/Ti... #gamedev #indiedev #tilemap

Days left until #DefoldGameJam 2026: 3️⃣ 🅿️ Poki fast-track review + €1,000 upfront release fee ⏩ Wavedash Credits 🎵 Ovani Sound credits + a custom song 🎨 CraftPix 1-year 🏆 Steam Gift Cards 🧰 Kenney All-in-1 + Asset Forge Deluxe ☁️ Heroic Cloud 3 months 🚀 Photon Fusion Plus + 1h call