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Defold Engine
@defold.com
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Defold is a completely free to use and source available game engine for development of console, desktop, mobile and web games.

https://defold.com
https://github.com/defold/defold
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Share what you are working on! We'd love to see your #gamedev projects!
#ScreenshotSaturday #MadeWithDefold

Featured: Sprint City by @playsprintcity.bsky.social
January 10, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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Want an unfiltered lesson?

Read this
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In our blog Rustam, founder of HG Point, creators of one of the most successful match games "Piece of Cake" #MadeWithDefold shares struggles and reality checks of mobile and web #gamedev

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January 7, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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Even though our Community Challenge has ended, people still want to share their tiny worlds #MadeWithDefold!

🖼️ Here's a watercolor landscape by Hunter Loftis:

#gamedev #indiedev #vfx #digitalpainting
January 6, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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We had a pleasure to talk with Koen Bollen - co-founder of Second Stage Studio and developer of Sprint City - a fast paced competitive speedrunning platformer!

#indiegame #speedrunning #competitive #platformer #MadeWithDefold #indiedev #gamedev
January 3, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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First #screenshotsaturday of the new year!
What are you working on?

#gamedev #indiedev #MadeWithDefold
January 3, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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2025 was a frutiful year for Defold!

Thank you to everyone who played, built, shipped, contributed, tested, shared feedback and supported us! 🧡

We’ve gathered the highlights in our retrospective:

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January 2, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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Happy New Year full of amazing games! 🎉
December 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Next Big Wave! 🌊🏄

By @selimanac.bsky.social #MadeWithDefold
December 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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We already have a simple Cubemap Reflections example on our website!

🗺️Map to the treasure:
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BTW, all our examples include web previews, so you can run them directly in your browser 💻

#gamedev #indiedev #MadeWithDefold
December 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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A Little Physics Roguelite by berru - a fun physics based game #MadeWithDefold has now a Steam page!

Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/4263470/...

#indiegame #physics #roguelite #indiedev #gamedev
December 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Ahoy! 🦜

Spotted @selimanac.bsky.social on the high seas crafting a slick water shader with reflections that look swashbucklin’ 🏴‍☠️

Drop an “Arrr!” in the comments, if you want a breakdown of how to make skybox reflections in Defold!

#gamedev #indiedev #MadeWithDefold #shaders #vfx
December 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Check out this #opensource 3D Christmas game sample by @d954mas.bsky.social 🎄

And now the whole Advent Calendar is completed with 14 great projects and assets to simplify #gamedevelopment in Defold!

forum.defold.com/t/advent-cal...

#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev #webgames #indiegames
December 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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It's the last #ScreenshotSaturday of 2025!

As the year comes to a close, we’d love to see what you’re building with Defold.

Are you polishing something that’s nearly ready to ship, or laying the groundwork for a fresh project in the new year?

#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames
December 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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We’re really happy to see @selimanac.bsky.social pushing the Defold ecosystem forward!

A new beta of Defold Graph Pathfinder is out with static 2D navmesh pathfinding support ▶️

#gamedev #indiedev #ai #navmesh #pathfinding #astar #MadeWithDefold
December 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Do you want to make an editor built in Defold?
Example by d954mas on how to use Imgui to add a gizmo!

forum.defold.com/t/imgui-gizm...

#MadeWithDefold #indiedev #gamedev
December 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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It's a giving time and we also have a small gift for you: 🎁
a 3D third-person open-source playground!

🪙 collect gold and store it
🏃 simple character controller
🎮 virtual gamepad
🏐 physics
🌑 shadow mapping

#MadeWithDefold #game #gamedev #indiedev #webgame #mobilegame
December 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Merry Christmas! 🎄

From the very bottom of our hearts, we wish everyone a well-earned, restful break and a season filled with cozy, warm, happy moments.
We wish you calm, peaceful times and peace in your homes, your communities, and the world around you.
December 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Day 7 of @d954mas.bsky.social Advent Calendar - a simple 2D Christmas Game made with Defold, Box2D and Tiled with menu 🎅

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #opensource #MadeWithDefold
December 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Day 6 of @d954mas.bsky.social Advent Calendar - example of the virtual pad that appears on screen on touch - very convenient for mobile games! 📱

#mobilegames #mobilegamedev #gamedev #indiedev #MadeWithDefold #webgames
December 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Next gift from @d954mas.bsky.social is a smaller and tailored version of Tiny ECS for Defold 🐰

forum.defold.com/t/bunnymark-...

#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev
December 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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In the newest Defold 1.12.0 (currently in beta), we’ve introduced a reworked update loop and added a new "Late Update" ⏰

Docs will be updated to reflect the changes, until then you can read the details in our release notes ✅

We hope these changes will help you better control the game’s life cycle!
December 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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On Day 2 of @d954mas.bsky.social Advent we have a localization example based on Google Sheets! 🌐

Check it out:
forum.defold.com/t/localizati...

💡Btw, did you know that in the newest Defold 1.12.0 (now in beta) we added Font Shaping and Font Collections?

#gamedev #indiedev #MadeWithDefold
December 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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It's a native extension that provides a super fast way to set positions for thousands of game objects using C++ code!

The Bunny Mark demo puts 30,000 bunnies on screen at impressive framerates! 🐰

Check out the details in the author's post:

forum.defold.com/t/advent-cal...
December 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Our amazing community dev @d954mas.bsky.social has started a wholesome initiative: an Advent Calendar with 14 #opensource gifts for Defold! 🎁

📦 On day 1 we have something that might be very useful for #gamedevs making #bulletheaven or #RTS games:

GoPositionSetter ✅
December 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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A community-created Asset Store for Defold by @insality.bsky.social built with the Editor Scripts and UI, is looking cooler and cooler 🧡💙

Preview and install particlefx, materials or widgets easily! 💥

#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev #gameeditor #assetstore #gameengine
December 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM