Defold Ecosystem

Defold is a free and source-available game engine with a focus on high-performance. It uses Lua, a scripting language, and allows you to create games for desktop, mobile, web, and console platforms.

Created by

Defold Foundation, originally by Christian Murray and Ragnar Svensson

Released

March 16, 2016

Community Repos

436

Total GitHub Stars

5,236

Core Projects

defold

3,713

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

asset-portal

178

List of Defold assets, libraries and extensions

defold-examples

151

Defold Examples

Popular Projects

druid

Powerful Defold UI component framework

25 Mar 2019 276

publicexamples

Examples for the Defold engine

14 Apr 2016 276

defold-scene3d

Scene3D is a collection of scripts, materials and tools to help you develop 3D games with the Defold game engine

21 Jun 2021 132

vscode-defold

A toolkit for Visual Studio Code to develop games with Defold

30 Mar 2021 161

defold-games

Collection of 2D games made with Defold

31 Oct 2018 352

defold-yagames

YaGames is the Yandex

22 Jul 2020 61

slasher-prototype

Defold

24 Jun 2019 130

colyseus-defold

⚔ Colyseus SDK for Defold Engine

15 Feb 2018 58

library-defold-grid-engine

Defold Grid Engine provides grid-based movement, interactions, and utility features in a Defold game engine project

23 May 2020 39

matchanovel

A visual novel framework library for Defold

14 Aug 2022 34

defold-orthographic

Orthographic camera functionality for the Defold game engine

28 Jun 2017 146

defold-extension-unity-ads

UnityAds native extension for Defold engine

01 May 2017 39

library-defold-rendy

Defold Rendy provides a versatile camera suite and render pipeline in a Defold game engine project

04 Feb 2024 35

nakama-defold

Defold client for Nakama server

27 Mar 2020 79

defold-playable-ads

Make playable ads with Defold! It's a project with Gulp tasks to bundle the Defold game into a single HTML file

21 Apr 2019 43

panthera

Panthera Animation Runtime for Defold Game Engine

27 Apr 2024 43

defold-event

Cross-Context Defold Event System

02 Mar 2024 36

defold-liveupdate-reszip

The complete solution to use Live Update to improve the load speed of your HTML5 game

25 Feb 2021 30

defnet

Defold networking examples

15 Sep 2016 65

ludobits

Utilities for game development using the Defold engine

27 Aug 2016 104

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Up and Coming Projects

defold-poki-netlib

A peer-to-peer library for web games made with Defold

13 Sep 2024 3

defold-unique-names-generator

A simple way to generate unique names in your Defold games

13 Sep 2024 4

DoNe

Defold on Neovim (extended)

07 Sep 2024 6

c99-multigameengine-starter

2025's exercise in game engine and logic modules

10 Aug 2024 0

defold-saver

Defold Save File Manager

31 Jul 2024 10

defold-proto

Defold Protobuf Library to encode, decode and verifying messages

31 Jul 2024 2

defold-lang

Defold Localization Helper

31 Jul 2024 11

shooting_circles

Defold ECS game example

04 Jul 2024 23

defold-index

Creates an index for custom resources in Defold

04 Jul 2024 3

extension-videoplayer-mpeg

Native extension to play back mpeg1 video using pl_mpeg

01 Jul 2024 3

panthera

Panthera Animation Runtime for Defold Game Engine

27 Apr 2024 43

Aerialsdemo

Demo of the Mobile Rhythm Game「Aerials」[Made with Defold & AcPlay]

01 Apr 2024 3

defold-sprite-repeat

Texture repeat (tiling) shader

26 Mar 2024 15

defold-tweener

Timer Based Defold Tween Library

09 Mar 2024 25

defold-event

Cross-Context Defold Event System

02 Mar 2024 36

extension-teal

Defold transpilation support for Teal

26 Feb 2024 21

defold-log

Context logger with performance metrics for Defold

24 Feb 2024 22

tutorial-defold

Tutorials of game design concepts and feature implementations in Defold game engine projects

19 Feb 2024 6

library-defold-rendy

Defold Rendy provides a versatile camera suite and render pipeline in a Defold game engine project

04 Feb 2024 35

sample-normal-maps-2d

30 Jan 2024 4

More Upcoming