Defold Newsletter June 2026
By Defold Foundation on Jul 01, 2026
Tagged as: Newsletter, Release, Community
News
It’s been a long time!
The beta of the currently released Defold 1.13.0 was longer than usual because it was a bigger one with spring cleanup. And it also comes with great features! Check out our progress in the first half of 2026! If you have something you wish to share, please send us an email at info@defold.se.
Read the formatted newsletter here or read its content below:
Wavedash now supports Defold
We’re very happy to announce that Wavedash joins us as a Bronze partner! Wavedash is a website with free and paid premium web games, and we now have a Defold native extension for Wavedash SDK, check out the details here:
Summary of the first half of 2026
We invite you to read the summary of the recent 1.12.x and 1.13.0 releases that marked half of the year of work on Defold to make it a better engine:
GamedevJS Jam 2026 results
A total of 495 games were submitted, of which 17 were made with Defold! We have awarded 10 best games made with Defold, check the results here:
Check all games made with Defold on GamedevJS Jam 2026
New games made with Defold:
Assets, extensions and tools:
Defold Xoshiro 256
A fast, high-quality procedural random number generator
by Glorius Silver
Defold VSCode Kit
Using Defold Kit you can now e.g. build or hot reload from VSCode
by astrochili
Worth reading:
Power Fantasies - interview with Alex from 8BitSkull on Skull Horde and more
How is it to release 4 games and still run a sustainable game studio?
by Defold Foundation
Building Mad Skills Motocross 2 for Poki with Defold
In this Creator Spotlight interview we discuss about porting MSM2 to web.
by Defold Foundation
Best Practices for Web Games Development
Practical, useful article for anyone targeting web and HTML5 distribution.
by Defold Foundation
Post-mortem inforgraphic for Perfect+1 - a jam winner game
A nice article in a form of an infographic for a well designed puzzle game
by Hell Hog Games
Playgama Web Games Industry Market Map 2026
A great read for anyone following the web games market.
by Playgama
Deep Dive into Green Game Jam with Bounce Ball
Learn how it helped improving monetization, increasing revenue by 32%
by George Zarkua
Worth watching:
Defold 1.13.0 has been released
Highlights:
- 💪 Morph target support for model components
- 🧲 Expanded Box2D scripting, including joints
- 📹 Camera preview overlay in the Scene View
- 💨 Frustum culling for Particle FX
- 📱 Vulkan as the default graphics API on Android
- 🎨 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 and more!
CHECK THE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT
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