Defold at Digital Dragons 2026

Digital Dragons 2026 - Cracow, Poland - May 17-19

Meet the Defold team at Digital Dragons, hosted at ICE Krakow Congress Centre, and see how a lightweight, production-ready game engine can help studios build, publishers ship, and partners reach more developers.

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What are you looking for?

Digital Dragons is a good moment to compare engines, publishing plans, and ecosystem opportunities. Defold is built for teams that want fast iteration, predictable shipping, and business terms that stay simple.

Publishers

Defold gives publishing teams proven technology, smooth service integrations, and support for teams shipping web, mobile, desktop, and console games.

Developers

Use a fast editor, Lua scripting, visual tools, hot reload, and one codebase for multiple platforms without royalties or licensing fees.

Partners

Bring your SDK, service, middleware, or content pipeline to the Defold ecosystem and reach studios that value lightweight production workflows.

Defold at a glance

Defold is a free, source-available game engine for building 2D and 3D games from one compact production workflow. It includes a visual editor, Lua scripting, runtime, scene and GUI tools, particle and tilemap editors, debugger, profiler, build pipeline, asset system, native extensions, editor scripting, and deployment to web, mobile, desktop, and supported console platforms.

Built for shipping games

Teams choose Defold when download size, performance, fast iteration, and clear commercial terms matter. The engine is free to use, source available, extensible, and actively released on a predictable monthly cycle.

2D and 3D scenes, GUI, particles, shaders, and custom rendering
Make games and ship them to all supported platforms
No royalties, no fees - completely free
Reach players - 600M+ plays for Defold games on Poki in 2024
Keep control - source available under a developer-friendly license
Write game logic using Lua, enhance it with native extensions (i.a. C++/C#)
Customize both engine and editor however you like

Defold editor with game project workspace

Why teams choose Defold

Small engine. Fast workflow. Clear terms. Defold is built around the daily decisions that affect production speed, build size, and release planning.

Start immediately, no setup

No setup marathon, no registration gate, no separate SDK stack before you can try an idea.

Editor, runtime, scripting, debugger, and build tools included
Lua workflow with native extensions when you need deeper control
Fast builds and hot reload for quick iteration
Free forever, source available, no royalties

Reach many platforms with one project

Keep one codebase for web, mobile, desktop, and supported console targets.

HTML5, iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux, Steam, Poki, and more
Small builds help web and mobile games load quickly
Live Update support for content delivery after release
Production games shipped by studios worldwide

Keep your projects flexible nad lightweight

Defold is one of the smallest engines in the market, and gives you customization and flexibility options. Shrink or extend the engine, and editor whenever you need it.

Small size - only 1 MB empty HTML5 engine size, gzipped
Cut out engine parts with a single App Manifest file
Native extensions for SDKs, services, and platform-specific code
Editor scripts and custom asset pipelines
Monthly releases and a practical open ecosystem with source available

Why teams bring Defold into production

Defold keeps the core workflow compact while leaving room for custom rendering, native extensions, editor scripts, third-party services, and platform-specific publishing requirements.

Free forever

No up-front costs, no subscriptions, no seat licenses, and no royalties. Keep your budget focused on the game.

Ship everywhere

Build from one codebase for web, mobile, desktop, and supported console platforms using shared APIs and a unified pipeline.

Production ready

Use battle-tested extensions for analytics, app economy, game services, asset workflows, and publishing integrations.

Lightweight by design

Small builds, low memory use, and fast startup make Defold a strong fit for web games, mobile games, and content that needs to load quickly.

Small runtime, serious reach

Defold is engineered to minimize memory use, disk space, and CPU load while still giving teams a complete editor and deployment flow. This is especially useful for web portals, mobile-first teams, and publishers balancing acquisition cost with player retention.

PLATFORM	DEFOLD 1.12.4	UNITY 6 (6000.0.23f1)	GODOT 4.3
Android (arm64-v8a)	1.97MB	24.33MB	24.29MB
iOS (arm64)	1.49MB	18.03MB	19.59MB
HTML5 (wasm, gzip)	1.06MB	8.1MB	9.0MB
Windows	2.87MB	91.1MB	84.1MB

Test made using an empty project. Exported to target platform using default settings. Release builds. The iOS, Android and Windows numbers represent the size on disk while the HTML5 number is uncached download size when gzipped. No optimizations. Release mode.

Let's talk

We want to meet game studios, indie developers, publishers, and technology providers at Digital Dragons. Bring your roadmap, integration plans, publishing questions, or prototype, and we will help you assess where Defold fits.

We will be available in the Meet2Match application as well - search for Defold team members to book a meeting.

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