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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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    HTML 15 15 22 1 Updated Nov 13, 2026
  • asset-portal Public

    List of Defold assets, libraries and extensions

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    Python 191 41 10 0 Updated Nov 13, 2026
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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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    Lua 6 MIT 0 1 0 Updated Nov 13, 2026
  • examples Public

    Defold examples for the Learn section of the site

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    Lua 129 CC0-1.0 36 43 1 Updated Nov 13, 2026
  • extension-spine Public

    The Defold specific Spine runtime implementation

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    C 46 20 37 2 Updated Nov 13, 2026
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    Python 1 0 0 0 Updated Nov 13, 2026
  • build-size Public

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

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    JavaScript 20 4 2 0 Updated Nov 13, 2026
  • games-showcase Public

    Collection of Defold games

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    Python 7 MIT 7 2 0 Updated Nov 12, 2026
  • doc Public

    Defold game engine documentation for www.defold.com

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    Python 148 129 25 6 Updated Nov 11, 2026