Audience

Developers requiring a tool to create high-performance games across multiple platforms without incurring licensing costs

About Defold

Defold is a free and open source game engine designed for high-performance cross-platform game development. It comes fully featured out of the box, requiring no setup or configuration, allowing developers to simply download the editor and start creating. The engine includes a visual editor, code editor, Lua scripting, Lua debugger, scene editor, particle editor, and tilemap editor, and supports both 2D and 3D game development. With a single codebase and no need for external tools, Defold enables publishing to major platforms such as PlayStation5, PlayStation4, Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, macOS, Linux, Windows, Steam, HTML5, and Facebook. It offers a component-based system for building games, allowing the use of basic building blocks to create complex behavior, and supports writing game logic using Lua. Developers can add new functionality from the asset portal, set up their own local build environment, and write native code to extend the engine.

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Pricing

Starting Price:
Free
Free Version:
Free Version available.

Integrations

API:
Yes, Defold offers API access
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Company Information

Defold
Founded: 2020
Sweden
defold.com

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Product Details

Platforms Supported
Windows
Mac
Linux
Training
Documentation
Videos
Support
Online

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