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Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of console, desktop, mobile and web games. There are no up-front costs, no licensing fees and no royalties. The Defold editor runs on Windows, Linux and macOS and includes a code editor, debugger, profiler and advanced scene and UI editors. Game logic is written in Lua with the option to use native code to extend the engine with additional functionality.

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

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    Defold game engine documentation for www.defold.com

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    Defold examples for the Learn section of the site

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  • defold Public

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

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  • asset-portal Public

    List of Defold assets, libraries and extensions

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  • build-size Public

    Graph showing the Defold engine and editor sizes for all supported platforms

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  • extension-texturepacker Public

    Adds support for the TexturePacker atlas format

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    Clojure 22 MIT 5 2 0 Updated Sep 14, 2026
  • extension-rive Public

    Adding Rive.app support to the Defold engine

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    C++ 73 MIT 15 11 0 Updated Sep 14, 2026
  • extension-spine Public

    The Defold specific Spine runtime implementation

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    C 46 18 36 0 Updated Sep 14, 2026
  • test-sdk Public

    Build a number of different extensions for all platforms to check for compatibility issues with the Defold SDK or build system

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    Shell 3 7 2 1 Updated Sep 14, 2026