Defold is a turn-key solution, built from the ground up as a 3D engine with special focus on tools for 2D game creation. Users build games using a component based system for maximum performance and modularity.

2D components

2D sprites
Spine models
Tile map editor for 2D levels

3D components

3D models - load models and animations
3D mesh - create and modify 3D geometry at runtime
Custom materials and shaders - Shaders written in GLSL

Defold has an animation system for visual components and scripts. Use flipbook animations for sprites and other 2D components, bone animations for models and property animations for movement, rotation, tweens and other values. Users can assemble and layout a game in the scene editor, where they will build levels, player characters, bosses, screens and user interface components all from within the editor.

GUI editor

Layered GUI with text, images and pie nodes
GUI clipping/stencil masks
GUI image nodes support 9-slice texturing
Automatic GUI layout with support for orientation changes
Bitmap and distance field fonts
Use GUI templates to reuse UI elements and quickly build complex views

Scene editor

Scene editor for assembling and laying out assets
Prefab construction of game objects
Create hierarchies to organise and group objects

Advanced Physics Simulation

2D and 3D physics (Box 2D and Bullet) fully integrated
Static, dynamic and kinematic (scriptable) physics objects
Shape based and ray-cast collision detection
Precise collision detection for tilemaps
Robust triggers
Joint and motor support

The developer writes game logic using the Lua scripting language. Lua is a commonly used scripting language for games. Lua features include Integrated code editor with syntax highlighting and code completion, an integrated debugger - step through code and inspect variable, and a fully scriptable rendering pipeline with low level access.

With Defold the user creates a game once and exports to all supported platforms without making any changes. The Defold APIs work across all platforms so the user doesn't need to manage typical platform specific things such as file paths, texture formats, input methods, render pipelines, networking protocols or in-app purchasing systems.

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