Defold Newsletter April 2026
By Defold Foundation on Apr 21, 2026
Tagged as: Newsletter, Release, Community
News
Hello Defolder! Here’s your fresh Defold newsletter with updates and highlights from the Defold community and the Defold Foundation. If you have something you wish to share, send us an email at info@defold.se.
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Defold x GamedevJS Jam 2026
We’ve announced the rewards for the best games made with Defold at the GamedevJS Jam 2026. Join the jam and have a chance to win!
Making of Hill Climb Racing Lite
We talked with Shiho Kaneko from Fingersoft about bringing the classic mobile hit game to the web with Defold. Read how it was made and published on Poki.
Read the Interview with Shiho Kaneko
New Games Made with Defold
Game of Fitna
by FIAgames
A thrilling death game visual novel set in 2030. You’re Zayn, a high school student thrown into sinister survival games.
Sprint City
by Second Stage Studio
This shared-world, fast-paced competitive platformer from the original creators of SpeedRunners is out now in Early Access.
Skull Horde
by 8bitSkull
This auto battler dungeon crawler, where you summon a horde of skeletons, launched on Steam on April 10, 2026.
Push Titans
by Toonminator
Push Titans is now globally released on Poki. The game was also showcased on the Defold Forum.
Break the Forest
by Aeolian Codelab
A card-based roguelike where you must survive a dangerous journey through a cursed forest, out now on Google Play.
Knight Bolts
by Hydraware
A physics-based game where you drop knights to defeat the orcs before they destroy the castle.
Assets, Extensions, and Tools
Defold Event with Queues and Promises
by Insality
This powerful library for cross-context events now includes modes, callback-based events, queues, promises, and more.
Biplanar Mapping Shader
by Selim Anaç
Apply textures based on world position and surface normals, useful for terrain, rocks, and organic geometry.
Defold WebP Native Extension
by Halfstar
WebP supports both lossless and lossy images as well as alpha channels, and it’s now available in Defold through this native extension.
Defold Mic Native Extension
by Halfstar
Read microphone input with this extension, useful for voice-controlled games or chat features.
DeFragCoord: Shaders to Defold
by Paweł Jarosz
Convert shaders from FragCoord.xyz to Defold directly using this simple guide.
Asobi: Open Source Multiplayer Backend
by Daniel Widgren
A multiplayer game backend with open source code written in Erlang/OTP.
Worth Reading
Creator Spotlight: Orenji Spark - Moving from Unity to Defold
We talked with Iwan from Orenji Spark about sustaining a long-running indie game studio and switching to Defold to publish lightweight web games.
Make Games, Not Engines: Why I Chose Defold
Erick reflects on how to choose the right game engine for stable, sustainable game development.
Push Titans: Unity Developer Makes a Game with Defold for Poki
Victor Corvalán describes the process of making Push Titans in Defold and publishing it on Poki.
Why HTML5 Is Blooming in Online Gaming Platforms
This article looks at the web games market and the continued growth of HTML5 game development.
New Defold Examples: Billboarding and Texture Scrolling
We’ve shared new examples, including billboarding with two modes and texture scrolling using new shader semantics and exposed time.
Worth Watching
New Tutorial Series
by Asatte Games
Build a top-down island defense incremental game from scratch with Asatte.
Every Game Engine Explained in 6 Minutes
by The Kernel Core
A quick overview of Defold and other game engines.
Cube Mining 3D
by cenker cennet
Chunk system, custom 3D particles, and an infinite map are now part of this open source Minecraft-inspired clone.
Defold 1.12.3 Has Been Released
Highlights:
- Time exposed to shaders
- Texture Transform semantic, useful for scrolling textures
- Script Structure: list of functions and variables in the sidebar
- Duplicate text selection
- Filters in Input Bindings to assign inputs to actions more easily
- New Properties API for Editor Scripts
- OpenAPI for the Editor HTTP Server
And many more.
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