Defold Engine Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Alternatives to Unity, Unreal, and Godot for 3D games

  Https://defold.com might anyway be something that is interesting for you. Source: 5 months ago

• Which GUI toolkit that can be easily distributed to win/mac/linux?

  Or maybe defold can be forced to only render when UI changed '__'). Source: 6 months ago

• I would say to Unity developers, don't use Godot.

  For 2D games check out the engine: Defold. Source: 7 months ago

• Unity's Trap

  The answer is Defold https://defold.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Unity's Trap

  [HaxeFlixel](https://haxeflixel.com/) and [Defold](https://defold.com/) come to mind as lighter 2D-focused frameworks with web export options and published games. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Ask HN: Favorite Game Engine?

  I recently made a small game with https://defold.com/, and it was very pleasant. Completely free and cross-platform out of the box (including Switch & PlayStation support!). - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Looking for a starting point to build an engine.

  First I would consider whether existing engines really aren’t suited to your needs. Godot is very lightweight. Defold is the engine that Candy Crush was made in. I would strongly consider one of these two before trying to make your own. Source: 10 months ago

• Making my first game, what engine should I use?

  However, I’m going to suggest two for you to look into to get you started, both are solid choices: Defold (started out as the engine that King used for Candy Crush and others, easy to use, cross platform, free, very capable) and Godot (popular open source engine that’s getting more popular by the day and is a very capable engine). Source: 10 months ago

• What is the easiest free game engine to use to build a simple game in a short time period?

  The DEFOLD Engine is really easy and nicely coupled for 2D game development. It's free & open source. Source: about 1 year ago

• need help choosing a game engine in lua for a 3d desktop/vr game

  Https://defold.com/ Never used Defold for 3D before but it is capable of it and should fulfil your requirements. Source: about 1 year ago

• It starts at 0 right?

  That's nice actually it can make you move into Defold. Source: about 1 year ago

• If you are making a point & click game in 2023, what tools do you use?

  I would use the Defold game engine. It’s super underrated. It’s totally free and cross platform. I love it. Source: about 1 year ago

• Is Clojure the only language you need?

  You can use Clojure + JavaFX like the guys from Defold. They wrote an editor for their game engine this way. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Lua, a Misunderstood Language

  I would add Defold to that list, it's a pretty nice little engine if you're making casual games. I used it for my team's project for this year's TOJam. https://defold.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Would Godot be the best option for a mobile match 3 style game? And...

  2D or 3D? If 2D, then you might wan to check out the Defold engine, the game engine King used for Candy Crush and other games. It’s completely free and fairly easy to use. Source: over 1 year ago

• I tried the Flash AS3 at school and it was nice

  Another try could be: - defoldDefold: a good engine base on lua - Cocos creator: base on typescript and you can make 2d and 3d games. Source: over 1 year ago

• ValueObject

  The Defold game engine IDE is written in Clojure, using cljfx, a React-like wrapper around JavaFX: https://defold.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• How to make a game under 10 MB and what engine to use?

  Use Defold. It's a fully featured engine with the smallest runtime I've ever seen. Also simple and crossplatform. Source: over 1 year ago

• C# games in Godot, 2022 edition

  I'd also recommend people check out Defold: https://defold.com/ I'm not a game dev, but its the engine King uses that they completely open sourced, and I think it can be a good alternative. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Unity is merging with a company who made a malware installer

  Also recommend having a look at Defold: https://defold.com/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Unity merges with IronSource

  i've switch to https://defold.com/ last year since I hate the slow editor and crashing in unity. don't like lua and slowly porting my game to godot using c# instead of gdscript. My game is just 2d so godot have all my bases covered. Source: almost 2 years ago