Name: Getting Started with Defold
Uploaded: 2017-02-23T13:46:28.000Z
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Description: Getting Started with Defold

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Defold is a game engine that provides a comprehensive set of features and tools for creating 2D and 3D games. It caters to game developers of all sizes, including individual developers and small to medium-sized studios. Defold is suitable for a range of professions and industries, such as game developers, game designers, artists, animators, mobile game development, and indie game studios.

## Key Features

**2D and 3D Capabilities**: Defold is a game engine designed to offer top-notch tools for both 2D and 3D game creation.

**Versatile 2D Components**: Defold offers a wide range of 2D components, including sprites, GUI nodes, and particles, enabling developers to create diverse game objects.

**Spine Model Support**: Defold supports Spine models, which are skeletal animations that bring characters and objects to life.

**Efficient 2D Level Design**: Defold includes a user-friendly tile map editor that simplifies the creation of 2D levels by allowing developers to place tiles on a grid.

**Flexible 3D Components**: Defold provides various 3D components for creating and manipulating 3D models and geometry.

**Customizable Particle Effects**: Defold features a particle effects system that allows developers to create and customize particle effects to enhance visual elements in their games.

**Powerful Animation System**: Defold offers a robust animation system that supports different types of animations for visual components and scripts.

**Artist-Friendly Scene Editor**: Defold provides a scene editor that enables game developers to assemble and layout game assets, making it easier for artists to contribute to the game creation process.

**Realistic Physics Simulations**: Defold integrates 2D and 3D physics simulations using Box 2D and Bullet, allowing for accurate and interactive physics interactions in games.

**Lua Scripting for Game Logic**: Defold allows game developers to write game logic using the Lua scripting language, providing flexibility and control over the behavior of game elements.

The Defold Foundation is the owner of the free to use, source available, game engine Defold. The foundation works with industry partners to provide developer-friendly software and services to game developers. The foundation was created in May 2020 and is registered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Unity Technologies headquartered in San Francisco offers the Unity real-time 3D and 2D development platform.

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Welcome to the free game engine Defold

Defold is the ability to create games 
cross platform – without the hassle. In this video Defold creator Ragnar Svensson presents the new game engine Defold, together with Henrik Davidsson, Studio Technical Director at King Malmö, and Johan Högfeldt, creator of Hammerwatch Coliseum.

Getting Started with Defold

UPD: we have a newer step-by-step tutorial that is more fun: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXsXu5srjNlz1HvCPytEVZggLqWBoF1pz

Also we have a series of developer blogs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXsXu5srjNlwbPMCMT8qSjS1QzLdgO9Ck


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Get started with the free game engine Defold by watching this video. It will help you grasp some of the concepts that make Defold unique – and incredibly awesome!

If you haven’t done so already, make sure to head over to defold.com, click ‘Get Defold’ to sign up and download the editor for your platform – Windows, Mac or Linux.

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