Paweł 🐉 Witchcrafter

Our community challenge to create something interesting with physics in Defold is slowly coming to an end, and we’re getting some really interesting submissions - like this Carrion-inspired controller:

#MadeWithDefold #opensource #gamedev #indiedev #physics #challenge

Another entry-level Defold tutorial is now updated, and we’d love your feedback, especially if you’re new to Defold 🧡💙

It includes a complete side-scroller project with assets and walks you through modifying the game and adding new features.

#Defold #tutorial #beginners #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

Spent some time experimenting with Defold.
Built a small, chaotic wagon prototype for the Break It challenge.
Still exploring the engine — but it’s been fun so far.

Itch page: balkanramgames.itch.io/break-it-woo...

#gamedev #solodev #defold

We just checked out Dragosha’s new #opensource Tiny World demo that includes a full-blown level editor with terrain sculpting and object placement, plus all the lighting and other rendering features from the Lights & Shadows project 🧡💙

#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #leveleditor

Added instructions on how to import my #gameassets into Raylib and Construct 3 (beta);

kenney.nl/knowledge-ba...

Last week to submit your physics projects to our Community Challenge: Break it!

We’ve already received some amazing submissions, so this #ScreenshotSaturday we’re featuring one of them - a cool project by Sam where you crash into other wagons!

#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev

Druid - a powerful framework for User Interfaces by @insality.bsky.social has now been updated and you can now quickly test many different widgets!

If you're building a complex GUI for your games, this is very helpful!

#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #UI #framework #indiedev #solodev

We’ll be refreshing our website, so we're looking for games for our showcase! ✨

If you have a game #MadeWithDefold and would like it to be featured, please reach out to us! 🧡💙

New community contribution: Physics Tools by
@aglitchman.bsky.social

It adds editor scripts that generate collision assets from images:
🚤 a convex hull shape
👤 a silhouette chain from thin box shapes

It's perfect for tracks, terrain, and complex boundaries!

#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev

New Defold is now in beta!

🎮 New 3D sample now built into the Editor samples
✨ ParticleFX - emitter property get/set
🧩 Models now supports custom vertex attribute data
🧵 Rendering: support for more than 8 vertex streams
🖼️ Editor Scripts can now show images

#Defold #gamedev #indiedev
(1/3)

We talked with Erick from @kuyimobile.bsky.social - a solo indie developer with 20+ years in #gamedev and dozens of shipped titles.

He shares how Defold helps him ship games across web, mobile, and Steam several times a year!

Read the interview:

defold.com/2026/02/17/C...

500 Mouse NPCs with Swept AABB on Voxel Terrain - Defold Engine YouTube video by cenullum

Our community member @cenullum shared progress on their Minecraft clone, now featuring hundreds of NPCs walking on voxel terrain:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyyh...

#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev #minecraftclone #solodev #indiegames #voxel

The progress over this is astonishing - it has now a translucent shader for the liquid, just take a look:

#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #physics #computeshaders #simulation #liquidsimulation #indiedev

We’d like to share a near-term snapshot of the areas we’re actively aiming to push forward over the coming quarters.

Check the details in the blog post:
defold.com/2026/02/10/D...

#defold #gameengine #gamedev #indiedev

Are you a Unity user that want to try Defold?

We’ve created a dedicated starting point for you:

“Defold for Unity users” helps you get productive fast by covering the essentials and mapping familiar Unity concepts to their Defold equivalents.

defold.com/manuals/unity/

#unity #unity3d #gamedev

Defold user Ivan Lytkin shared an #opensource liquid simulation experiment inspired by @sebastianlague.bsky.social videos, and powered by compute shaders in Defold.

💧 Check out the current status:
github.com/abadonna/def...

#MadeWithDefold #liquidsimulation #physics #gamedev #indiedev

Impressive progress from Dragosha:

The 3D building prototype is quickly becoming a full-fledged level editor, including terrain modification. ⛰️

It runs also on mobile devices and still looks stunning! 🧡

#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine #mobilegames #rts #strategy #indiegames

Can you make a Genshin Impact–like game in Defold?

Our community keeps building breathtaking stuff, and Mikhail just showcased an amazing project! 🧡

Here’s footage from a prototype in Defold, plus extra recordings of the assets in Blender:

#MadeWithDefold #Blender #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine

Defold 1.12.1 has been released! 🎉

📱 Safe Area is now built in
🪲 Breakpoints tab
⏩ Improved project opening and loading performance
🖼️ Optimized Atlas preview and creation
📦 Mounting Live Update archives from Android assets
👆 Revamped Properties view, more drag&drop: from Assets to resource pickers

Can you make a Minecraft clone in Defold?

Well, there are already lots of similar games #MadeWithDefold 🎮

You can make them too! It's even easier now, as recently cenullum shared an #opensource 3D voxel mining example:

github.com/cenullum/cub...

#gamedev #minecraft #indiedev #solodev

I made simple shadows on top of my deferred shading - no filters, blur, and pretty visible peter panning, but it works! 😎

Shadow mapping is done using Defold Camera component to "see" the world from the perspective of the sun light ☀️

Details:
forum.defold.com/t/deframe-de...

#gamedev #indiedev

Continuing my render pipeline tooling experiments - now testing simple deferred lighting!

☀️ directional sunlight
💡 point lights
🏝️ ambient light
🗺️ normal map support

#MadeWithDefold #rendering #gamedev #indiedev #vfx #shaders #lighting #opengl #vulkan #webgl #webgpu

2025 was a frutiful year for Defold!

Thank you to everyone who played, built, shipped, contributed, tested, shared feedback and supported us! 🧡

We’ve gathered the highlights in our retrospective:

defold.com/2026/01/02/D...

Defold has a fully scriptable rendering pipeline offering many posibilities 💻

#MadeWithDefold #indiedev #gamedev #rendering #computergraphics #vfx #shaders #gameengine

Graph Pathfinder - A high-performance pathfinding solution for Defold This native extension, written in C++, is based on the A* pathfinding algorithm and is designed to handle hundreds to thousands of moving objects.

Look what we found:

an article covering Defold Graph Pathfinder by @selimanac.bsky.social published on Blips.fm blog:

blog.blips.fm/articles/gra...

#gamedev #indiedev #MadeWithDefold

How depth buffer is working is a little bit less mystical to me now, so I created another effect with my custom rendering pipeline tool for Defold - a depth fog: 🌫️

#MadeWithDefold #rendering #vfx #postprocess #gamedev #indiedev #opengl #vulkan

A Little Physics Roguelike on Steam In A Little Physics Roguelike aim to grab the best equipment, then build your unique board with a variety of item to defeat cute enemies.

A Little Physics Roguelite has now a demo on Steam - check it out:

store.steampowered.com/app/4263470/...

#MadeWithDefold #indiegame #roguelite #physicsgame #indiedev #gamedev

Ahoy! 🦜

Spotted @selimanac.bsky.social on the high seas crafting a slick water shader with reflections that look swashbucklin’ 🏴‍☠️

Drop an “Arrr!” in the comments, if you want a breakdown of how to make skybox reflections in Defold!

#gamedev #indiedev #MadeWithDefold #shaders #vfx

Finish my dream game and make 2 next in this world/universe!

Then I have another cool world for other games!

But I also want to make a life simulation, especially after watching one Black Mirror episode :D

Check out this #opensource 3D Christmas game sample by @d954mas.bsky.social 🎄

And now the whole Advent Calendar is completed with 14 great projects and assets to simplify #gamedevelopment in Defold!

forum.defold.com/t/advent-cal...

#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev #webgames #indiegames