Defold News
The latest Defold coverage curated for game developers.
Gamefromscratch reports that Defold now supports Xbox, adding another console target to its already established Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4/5 support. For teams using the free, nearly open-source engine, that …
Defold 1.14.0 adds Microsoft Xbox support for approved developers, putting the engine across all three major console families. Defold also tightened mobile and editor workflows, with iPhone Duo-safe-area updates, cubemap …
Defold announced official Microsoft Xbox support in Defold 1.14.0, opening console development to approved Xbox developers at no extra cost. The engine now covers Xbox, PlayStation 4/5, and Nintendo Switch, …
Defold 1.14.0 adds cubemap render targets, a redesigned Material Editor, and Metal as the default backend on macOS. Defold says the release also prepares projects for iPhone Duo and opens …
Defold Foundation says Minit Games has joined as a corporate partner, with both sides aiming to speed up engine features and push instant-play micro-games to new platforms. Defold’s lightweight HTML5 …
Defold spotlights Cillian, aka Fatal Exit, a web-first developer who has shipped 50+ jam games and now leans on browser releases. He says the web cuts distribution risk, reaches family …
Defold 1.13.2 adds rich text to labels and GUI nodes, letting teams build more expressive UI without extensions. Defold says the update also expands Bullet 3D access in Lua, adds …
Defold Game Jam 2026 starts Sunday, September 20, with prizes, partner challenges, and free gifts for participants. The Defold Foundation is also running a free online conference ahead of the …
Defold Foundation says the Defold Game Jam 2026 begins Sunday, September 20, with prizes, partner challenges, and free gifts on offer. The run-up includes a free online conference on multiplayer, …
Defold Game Jam 2026 starts Sunday, September 20, with prizes, partner challenges and free gifts for participants. Defold Foundation is also running a free online conference ahead of the jam, …
Defold Game Jam 2026 starts Sunday, September 20, with prizes, partner challenges and free gifts for participants. The Defold Foundation is also running a free online conference ahead of the …
Defold says Green Train Studio and Playgama have brought Arrow Cube 3D to YouTube Playables, showing how a small team can ship a web-first puzzle game with a tiny 3 …
Defold 1.13.1 lands with new Light components, faster warm builds, and broader engine/editor support, while the summer newsletter also tees up a September game jam and a Defold presence at …
Defold 1.13.1 lands with first-class lighting for 2D and 3D, plus a much more automation-friendly editor and HTTP API. The update also adds SDL gamepad mappings, faster warm builds, and …
Defold spotlights how Soft Boiled Games turned MicroMacro: Downtown Detective into a mobile detective game, then kept pushing it toward Steam. The team preserved the board game's single-city, clue-hunting structure …
Defold’s June 2026 newsletter is mostly a status update, but the practical headline is 1.13.0: morph targets, broader Box2D scripting, Vulkan now default on Android, and new graphics/runtime inspection tools. …
Defold’s first half of 2026 focused on engine and workflow upgrades for gameplay, 3D, web, and mobile devs. The 1.12 series added late_update(), engine throttling, safer area support, camera/world-screen helpers, …
Defold’s 2026 H1 releases focused on engine and workflow upgrades for gameplay, 3D, rendering, web, and mobile. The biggest changes land in 1.13.0: new Box2D Lua APIs, Morph Targets for …
Defold 1.13.0 is a broad engine update with real impact for 3D, physics, and tooling work. The biggest wins are morph targets for glTF models, a much larger Box2D scripting …
Defold is pushing a blunt message for web releases: if players can’t have fun within 10 seconds, they’re likely gone. The guidance centers on fast loads, small builds, clear controls, …