It’s #ScreenshotSaturday 👀
What’s new in your Defold project this week?
Show us your progress below!
Featured: Knight Bolts by Hydraware:
forum.defold.com/t/knight-bol...
#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #indiegamedev #solodev
Paweł Jarosz in Gamedev.js Jam 2026
Please welcome Paweł Jarosz, Community and Content Manager at the Defold Foundation, as our #GamedevJS Jam 2026 expert!
gamedevjs.com/jam/2026/#pa...
#expert #gamedev #gamejam #partnership #Defold #MadeWithDefold
This game was ported to Defold and had:
🪶~65% smaller build size
⚡️Much faster loading time
📈Smoother performance across devices
Check out Jane's Fashion Studio by Orenji Spark on @poki.com!
Read the story: forum.defold.com/t/from-unity...
#MadeWithDefold #webgames #indiegames #gamedev #indiedev
A game engine is only part of the story.
The real challenge is turning it into a reliable, cross-platform toolchain with full editing workflow for game development.
That’s a big part of what Defold is about!
#Defold #gamedev #indiedev #MadeWithDefold
Want to add microphone input to your Defold game? 🎤
Check out this new community-made extension that lets you capture audio directly from the mic, opening up possibilities for voice control, recording, and more.
#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev #nativeextension #solodev #audio
Soft launching a new game soon! 😀 #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #madewithdefold
Spring is here, and so is #ScreenshotSaturday 🌱
Show us what you’ve been working on in Defold - fresh ideas, new mechanics, or something you’ve been polishing over 👇
Featured: Skull Horde by 8BitSkull that releases soon!
#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday
Progress on the Minecraft-like Cube Mining 3D in Defold by @cenullum.bsky.social is great - it has now a custom 3D particle system with collisions 🧡
Check the crunchy sounds too! 🎧🎶
#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #indiegames #minecraft #voxels #gameengine #opensource
We played MicroShop by flametime - it's a tiny shop management and building tycoon in early development made with cute 3D assets by @kenney.nl in Defold!
😊🍞🍉🧀🍯💵
#MadeWithDefold #indiegame #tycoon #management #shop #webgame #indiedev #gamedev
The latest trailer for Skull Horde by 8BitSkull has us on the edge of our seats. It’s shaping up to be a great test of what Defold can handle, with countless enemies swarming the screen.
Releasing April 10! 🗓️
#MadeWithDefold #indiegame #bulletheaven #survivorlike
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCWi...
#AThousandBees is now on the #Defold website, defold.com/showcase/ which feels supercool!
#miat #madewithdefold #showcase #hiddenobjects #indiegames #indiedev #cozygames #wholesomegames
We’re proud to announce that the Defold Foundation is sponsoring Gamedev.JS Jam 2026!
The jam kicks off in less than a month on Itch, and we’d love to see plenty of entries #MadeWithDefold! 🧡💙
Are you joining?
#gamedev #gamejam #webgames #indiegames
Defold in Gamedev.js Jam 2026
Great news today: we have a brand new Partner, Defold, in #GamedevJS Jam 2026!
gamedevjs.com/jam/2026/#de...
So happy to have you with us! ❤️
#gamedev #gamejam #partnership #Defold #MadeWithDefold
Defold Flow is the next great open source library for UI - this one implements a CSS Flexbox-inspired UI system in pure Lua.
It's also very well documented, with a tutorial series on how to use it and guides:
github.com/Pause-Games/...
#opensource #ui #css #lua #MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev
It's #ScreenshotSaturday! 📸
Share what you are working on!
Featured: Hill Climb Racing Lite by Fingersoft - we recently had an interview on how their journey to web for this hit mobile title was looking like.
#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiegamedev #webgames
We are getting closer and closer to have the Xbox support 🎮
Here’s our Pixel Line Platformer, built with Defold using awesome assets by @kenney.nl, already running on @xbox.com
#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #XBox #consoles #consolegames #indiegamedev
We were delighted to sat down with Shiho Kaneko from Fingersoft to talk about bringing Hill Climb Racing Lite to @poki.com with Defold!
If you’re curious about web platform, we invite you to check this one out and play the game!
#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #webgamedev #webgames #Poki #HTML5games
Check out Defold-WebP - a new native extension by Halfstar that lets you decode and encode external WebP image files in Defold 🖼️
A handy addition for working with compressed images:
forum.defold.com/t/defold-web...
#defold #gamedev #lua #indiedev #webp #solodev #MadeWithDefold
DeFragCoord is a simple guide by @paweljarosz.bsky.social on how to use shaders from the powerful fragcoord.xyz by @xordev.com in Defold.
All those shaders are created using only math, no textures:
forum.defold.com/t/defragcoor...
#MadeWithDefold #shaders #glsl #vfx #gamedev #indiedev
Check out the new tutorial on how to make a 2D top down incremental island defense game in Defold by Asatte Games:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNmQ...
#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev #tutorial
Defold Event - a library for cross-context events and callbacks by @insality.bsky.social was updated and now includes:
⌛️ Queues
🤝 Promises
↩️ Events as callbacks
🔂 Subscribe Once
⚙️ Event Modes
Check it out:
forum.defold.com/t/defold-eve...
#MadeWithDefold #opensource #gamedev #indiedev
Set sail! Time to ship! ⛵️
It's #ScreenshotSaturday so share with us what you're working on!
Featured: Defold Wave by @selimanac.bsky.social - an #opensource extension for making waves with shaders for beautiful stylized water 🌊
#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #indiegames #TeaseYaGame
Congrats to @selimanac.bsky.social! 🎉
His native extension Defold Wave was just featured in the latest GamedevJSWeekly #635.
Great to see the Defold community and its tools getting highlighted! 🌊
Check it out in action and see the post:
gamedevjsweekly.com/635
#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev
Mixing 2D and 3D with a style!
Work in progress prototype by Dragosha #MadeWithDefold
On our subreddit r/defold users share their creations, and Flameteam presented the progress on a prototype of a shop tycoon game with runtime mesh generation to build rooms with lovely assets by @kenney.nl
#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine
We finished our Community Challenge: Break it! 💥
🚀 Best Technical: Tentacle Thing by Jean
🖼️ Best Visual: Wooden Wagon by Sam
🐣Best First-time: Flip-Flop Football by Ivan
Congratulations to the winners! 🏆
Rewards are waiting! 🎁
#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #challenge #gameengine
Defold Wave is the next amazing native extension by @selimanac.bsky.social that allows to simulate floating objects and waves.
It's #opensource and comes together with nice stylized water #shader and two example projects:
forum.defold.com/t/stylized-w...
#MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev
It's Sunday and we're waiting for you to share what you are working on!
Featured: Superweird by @ludenio.bsky.social
#ScreenshotSaturday #MadeWithDefold #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #gameengine #indiegames
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
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
