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Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of console, desktop, mobile and web games. There are no up-front costs, no licensing fees and no royalties. The Defold editor runs on Windows, Linux and macOS and includes a code editor, debugger, profiler and advanced scene and UI editors. Game logic is written in Lua with the option to use native code to extend the engine with additional functionality.

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    Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of desktop, console, mobile and web games.

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    Defold game engine documentation for www.defold.com

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    Defold examples for the Learn section of the site

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  • defold Public

    Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of desktop, console, mobile and web games.

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    C++ 6,386 460 881 (8 issues need help) 41 Updated Oct 15, 2026
  • test-sdk Public

    Build a number of different extensions for all platforms to check for compatibility issues with the Defold SDK or build system

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    Shell 3 7 3 1 Updated Oct 15, 2026
  • extension-fmod Public Forked from dapetcu21/defold-fmod

    FMOD bindings for Defold

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    C 13 13 7 (2 issues need help) 1 Updated Oct 15, 2026
  • extension-spine Public

    The Defold specific Spine runtime implementation

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    C 47 18 36 0 Updated Oct 15, 2026
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    HTML 15 16 24 1 Updated Oct 15, 2026
  • asset-portal Public

    List of Defold assets, libraries and extensions

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    Python 191 40 5 0 Updated Oct 15, 2026
  • tool-metrics Public
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  • build-size Public

    Graph showing the Defold engine and editor sizes for all supported platforms

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    JavaScript 19 4 2 0 Updated Oct 15, 2026
  • sample-poki Public
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    Lua 6 MIT 1 0 0 Updated Oct 14, 2026
  • extender Public

    Native extension build server

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    Java 66 MIT 24 17 1 Updated Oct 14, 2026