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With all the recent controversy surrounding Unity since their ill advised runtime fees more and more Unity developers are expressing their outrage. Increasingly many of those Unity developers have expressed a desire to move to a different game engine (many of our recommendations are available here). If you use Unity primarily to make […]
Introduction to Defold for Unity Developers Read More
The free 2D game engine Defold (tutorial series available here) just announced the addition of PlayStation 4 to their supported development platforms. This announcement follows a few years after they added support for the Nintendo Switch platform and they have announced the addition of PlayStation 5 support later this year
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Love it or hate it, but NFTs are coming to the world of game development, or at least their money is. Open source game engines Phaser, Godot and Defold as well as Blender have just received a combined total of $300K USD in grants from the NFT themed company OP
Godot, Blender, Defold and Phaser Receive Funding from NFT Company Read More
The Defold game engine and Rive 2D vector based animation application have announced a partnership. Rive may be a new name to you as it was previously known as Nima and Flare, the two products were merged as Rive. The partnership between Defold and Rive is going to bring the
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The Defold Game Engine (complete tutorial available here), recently transferred to the Defold Foundation, just announced support for the Nintendo Switch platform.Details from the Defold website:The Defold Foundation today announced the immediate availability of Nintendo Switch support for the Defold game engine. Nintendo Switch is the first console supported by Defold. Approved Nintendo Switch developers […]
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The Defold game engine is now open sourced under the Apache open source license. The source code is now available on GitHub and Defold development is now controlled by the newly created Defold Foundation.EDIT – The above contained an error. The license is not Apache, it’s Apache derived. This is unfortunate as Godot creator @reduzio […]
Defold Engine Open Sourced Read More
Welcome to another NewsFromScratch game development news round-up. Today we have 3 different game engine releases, Phaser, Defold and Verge3D.Phaser 3.23 ReleasedThis release of the Phaser open source HTML5 game framework brings an important milestone in reaching 100% coverage of the entire API, including private members. This task also resulted in better Typescript bindings as […]
Phaser 3.23 | Defold 1.2.168 | Verge3D 3.1 For Blender Read More
The Defold game engine is a free cross platform 2D focused game engine from King, we previously covered here and here as well as a video tutorial here. The Defold team recently released an update on the future roadmap of the Defold game engine.Details from the Defold blog broken down by engine category:iOS We will […]
The Future of the Defold Game Engine Read More
This is the homepage for our tutorial series covering the Defold Game Engine. The Defold Game Engine is a free Lua powered cross platform mobile focused 2D game engine developed by King. This tutorial series will cover all aspects of 2D game development using the Defold engine. Each tutorial assumes you have read or […]
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