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Create Instant Games with Defold

Defold is the full-featured, turn-key solution capable of building fast, lightweight HTML5 games.


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Tiny engine

Tiny engine footprint below 700 kB and OTA functionality enables instant startup times with content loading when needed.

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Games for everyone

Defold’s focus on performance makes games accessible to everyone, regardless of which device they are on.

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Instant Games

Defold has full support for the Instant Games API, and is fully compatible with all Facebook game platforms.

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XOXO is a fully-featured Facebook Instant Game example, made with Defold. Download it for free, if you’re the “learning-by-doing” type of person.

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All you need is Defold

Defold is a modern, powerful and production ready all-in-one game engine ecosystem for truly cross-platform game development with an incredibly small engine footprint.

  • A turn-key solution with all the building blocks you need
  • No setup, no registration, just download and start creating
  • Write game logic using Lua, enhance it with native extensions
  • Make 2D and 3D games and ship them to all platforms
  • Free forever & source available under a developer-friendly license
  • Small engine size, with Live Update support out of the box
  • Hot Reload, fast builds, profiler and debugger for quick workflow
  • Customize both engine and editor however you like
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Ship everywhere easily

Using just one code base, and without the need for external tools, Defold lets you publish your game to all of the major platforms:

  • PlayStation® 5
  • PlayStation® 4
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Steam
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • macOS
  • iOS
  • Android
  • HTML5
  • Poki
  • Facebook
  • XBox - Coming Soon!

No setup

Defold comes fully featured out of the box, with all the tools needed to build your games. There is nothing to set up or configure, and no registration is required — just download the editor. It has everything you need, including:

  • Visual Editor
  • Code Editor
  • Scene Editor
  • ParticleFX Editor
  • Tilemap Editor
  • Lua Scripts with built-in Debugger
  • Native Extensions support
  • Building tooling
  • 2D & 3D support
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Customize it as you like

  • Add new functionality from the Asset Portal.
  • Write your own native code to extend the engine.
  • Setup your own local build environment.
  • Customize your workflow with Editor Scripts and UI.
  • Use the localized Editor (currently: EN, RU, ZH, PT).
  • Integrated with Atom, VS Code, Rive, Spine, TexturePacker or Tiled.

Free. Forever.

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Production ready

  • Proven track record of game releases on desktop, consoles, web and mobile.
  • Integrations with analytics, app economy, game and platform services, and SDKs.
  • Actively developed, with a new release every month.
  • Technical support contracts available if needed.
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Ready to create something awesome?

Download Defold and start building your next cross-platform game with the editor, runtime, build pipeline, and tools working together out of the box.

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