Defold Engine

Defold 1.13.0 has been released! 🥳 This is a huge release with a longer beta period, bringing a lot to explore: 💪 Morph Targets (aka Blend Shapes) support for 3D 📦New Box2D scripting APIs with joints, chains, etc 💨 Frustum culling for Particle FX 📱 Vulkan as the default graphics API on Android 📹 Camera preview overlay in the Scene View 🎨 New material and compute script modules ⚙️ Runtime graphics adapter and feature inspection 🤖 New authenticated editor /eval endpoint for automation workflows 🧹 Cleanup of legacy APIs and formats, fixes, optimizations, QoL improvements and more!

And there’s much more packed into this beta, including borderless fullscreen on desktop, a new C API for HTTP requests, Metal backend support, smoother HTML5 audio playback, or support for large resource archives, and many more! Read the full release notes and check the beta in your projects! forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-13-…

Gamepad support in Defold became broader and more reliable. This beta adds built-in support for SDL’s widely used game controller database, providing standardized mappings for a much wider range of controllers across different platforms with automatic detection.

What's the future of Defold? Take a glimpse: Defold 1.13.1 Beta is here! 🚀 💡 New Light components 💪 Instancing support for models with morph targets ⚡ Up to 19% faster warm builds in large projects 🎮 SDL controller database 🧩 Tabs, images, resizable and non-modal dialogs for editor extensions 🖥️ Borderless fullscreen by default on desktop 🔊 Improved HTML5 audio 📦 Large resource archives support 🌐 C API for HTTP requests and many more improvements and fixes:

Our Community Challenge about making experiments with new #Box2D scripting API is now finished and the winners will receive gifts! 🎁 Congratulations! 🥳 Check out the entries and their #opensource projects on Github!

@PlaygamaCom And vice versa! 🧡💙

@defold Guys, you're the best! Appreciate your support so much 🥰

There is an ongoing @PlaygamaCom #GameJam - make a game before July 31th and have a chance to win cash prizes and an opportunity to publish it on #YoutubePlayables! It could be a great opportunity to make a game with #Defold! 🧡💙

Check it out for free on Youtube Playables: youtube.com/playables/Ugkx…

This developer created a puzzle game in Defold and published it with @PlaygamaCom on Youtube Playables thanks to the Playgama's #opensource Bridge SDK for #Defold 🧡💙

Few more updates for the FPS sample game for #Defold 🎯 added a sniper rifle with a different method of detecting hits - raycasts instead of spawning a bullet/missile, and switching between the weapons 💥 more billoboarded particlefx for explosions on muzzle and hit (it's not so well visible on the recording though) #MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev

@defold @BigbuttonC Harold now has Trophies to win which are suitably wacky and fun. Unstung Hero, Teflon Toes, Key Worker.... First 6 are level awards. Then 3 skill awards. Then 6 more mystery awards.

We are putting more and more tabs into debug menu 😅 Thanks to "Dear ImGUI extension for Defold" 🏗️ #ScreenshotSaturday #MadeWithDefold #IndieGameDev

Check out the demo: store.steampowered.com/app/4850910/Fi…

Happy #ScreenshotSaturday! We would be delighted to see what you are working on in #Defold! Featured: Final Deal by @BigbuttonC - we played the demo #MadeWithDefold and it's really addicting!

It's super cool to see @defold gradually expanding into the Third Dimension while keeping the minimalistic, lightweight approach. For casual games, it's already there! #MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev

@Asatte235 Thank you for covering this massive release! 🧡💙

Shared a review video on the major Defold release "1.13.0". I tried to cover what has been added, removed and some of the breaking changes. You can watch it on: youtu.be/GulW2AT-Te8 #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #game_engine