Defold: The game engine for high-performance cross-platform games.

What is Defold

Defold is a game development engine that offers a robust set of tools for creating both 2D and 3D games. With its component-based architecture, Defold ensures high performance and modularity. The engine is designed to be lightweight, allowing for deployment on a wide range of platforms, from mobile devices to desktop systems.

Defold Features

2D and 3D Capabilities: Defold is primarily a 2D engine but is built on a 3D foundation, offering tools for both dimensions. It includes 2D sprites, Spine models, and a tile map editor, as well as 3D model loading, mesh creation, and custom shaders.
Advanced Animation System: The engine supports flipbook animations for sprites and GUI nodes, Spine bone animations, and property animations for various visual components.
Artist-Friendly Editors: Defold provides a scene editor for asset assembly and a GUI editor for creating layered interfaces, making it accessible for artists to design game elements without extensive coding.
Physics Integration: With built-in support for 2D and 3D physics engines like Box2D and Bullet, Defold allows for realistic object interactions and collision detection.
Cross-Platform Deployment: Developers can create a game once and deploy it across multiple platforms, including consoles, mobile devices, and web browsers.
Rapid Workflow and Hot Reloading: Defold’s rapid build times and hot reloading capabilities enable developers to quickly test and iterate on game ideas.
Native Extensions: The engine supports native extensions in C, C++, and other languages, allowing developers to add custom features and integrate with external SDKs.
Production-Ready Integrations: Defold offers integrations with popular third-party services for analytics, in-app purchases, and advertising.