Defold

Name: Defold
Availability: InStock
Author: King

The game engine for the creators of King

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Overview

What Defold does

Defold is a free, lightweight game engine optimized for mobile and web game development. It is created by King (Candy Crush) and powers many successful mobile games.

What people use it for

Building 2D games for mobile, desktop, web and console from a single project
Shipping small-footprint HTML5 games
Teams wanting a free engine with no revenue share on games

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Defold.

The Defold License requires you to include the Defold license and copyright notice in any work you create with the engine
The licence forbids commercialising original or modified versions of the Defold editor or engine itself
Significant changes made to the Defold source must be documented under the licence terms

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Pricing

What Defold costs

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Free

Full editor
Lua scripting
Physics engine
Mobile optimization
Community support

Capabilities

Features

Lua scripting
Lua scripting capability
Physics engine
Physics engine capability
Sprite system
Sprite system capability
Particle effects
Particle effects capability
Sound management
Sound management capability
Collection editor
Collection editor capability
Mobile optimization
Mobile optimization capability
Lightweight
Lightweight capability
Visual Studio Code
Integration with Visual Studio Code
GitHub
Integration with GitHub
Bob build system
Integration with Bob build system
Code encryption
Code encryption security feature

Behind it

Who makes Defold

Company: King
Based in: Stockholm, Sweden

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