Defold 1.14.1 BETA with vector fonts and 😯, Minit Game Jam and more jams, Starbreaker and more!

Hello Defolder!
Lots of jams and events are coming up, and we also have a complete open-source 3D web game sample, new games made with Defold, new assets, plenty of articles about Xbox support and the first video from our jam!

If you want to share something, contact: [email protected]

Make a tiny game, publish it on Minit and win cash prizes. Submissions close November 10.

We also support Haven Hack Club and Mumukshu Labs jams!

Open-source sample web game

A complete 3D space shooter, showing best practices for web games.

Worth reading:

Defold on Xbox in the news

Coverage from Windows Central, Pure Xbox, GameFromScratch, Indie Tooling, GameBusiness.jp and TodoJuegos.

Snowfall Games on building Portentum with Defold

PAX West interview with co-founder Jaden Holladay, plus their dev blog.

By Boss Rush Network

How I Usually Structure My Defold Games

A practical look at organizing Defold projects with Lua modules, a service locator and an event bus.

By OrenjiSpark

Learning Defold #1: Game Objects, State, URLs, and Message Passing

First part of a beginner series on Defold's core concepts.

By NV

Making Sense of the Defold Logical Workflow

A Godot developer shares how he structures a growing Defold project with modules and messages.

By svalinn85

Defold 1.14.1 BETA is out

🔤 Vector fonts & colorful emojis support🥳
🎆 Faster particle rendering
🎞️ Flexible tile animations
⏺️ Native MP4 recording
🔀 SIMD texture-processing optimizations
🌐 HTML5 improvements and rendering control
📦 Improved glTF support and way more!

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