Defold at Digital Dragons 2026
Digital Dragons 2026 - Cracow, Poland - May 17-19
Meet the Defold team at Digital Dragons, hosted at ICE Krakow Congress Centre, and see how a lightweight, production-ready game engine can help studios build, publishers ship, and partners reach more developers.
What are you looking for?
Digital Dragons is a good moment to compare engines, publishing plans, and ecosystem opportunities. Defold is built for teams that want fast iteration, predictable shipping, and business terms that stay simple.
Publishers
Defold gives publishing teams proven technology, smooth service integrations, and support for teams shipping web, mobile, desktop, and console games.
Developers
Use a fast editor, Lua scripting, visual tools, hot reload, and one codebase for multiple platforms without royalties or licensing fees.
Partners
Bring your SDK, service, middleware, or content pipeline to the Defold ecosystem and reach studios that value lightweight production workflows.
Defold at a glance
Defold is a free, source-available game engine for building 2D and 3D games from one compact production workflow. It includes a visual editor, Lua scripting, runtime, scene and GUI tools, particle and tilemap editors, debugger, profiler, build pipeline, asset system, native extensions, editor scripting, and deployment to web, mobile, desktop, and supported console platforms.
Built for shipping games
Built for shipping games
Teams choose Defold when download size, performance, fast iteration, and clear commercial terms matter. The engine is free to use, source available, extensible, and actively released on a predictable monthly cycle.
- 2D and 3D scenes, GUI, particles, shaders, and custom rendering
- Make games and ship them to all supported platforms
- No royalties, no fees - completely free
- Reach players - 600M+ plays for Defold games on Poki in 2024
- Keep control - source available under a developer-friendly license
- Write game logic using Lua, enhance it with native extensions (i.a. C++/C#)
- Customize both engine and editor however you like
Why teams choose Defold
Small engine. Fast workflow. Clear terms. Defold is built around the daily decisions that affect production speed, build size, and release planning.
Start immediately, no setup
Start immediately, no setup
No setup marathon, no registration gate, no separate SDK stack before you can try an idea.
- Editor, runtime, scripting, debugger, and build tools included
- Lua workflow with native extensions when you need deeper control
- Fast builds and hot reload for quick iteration
- Free forever, source available, no royalties
Reach many platforms with one project
Reach many platforms with one project
Keep one codebase for web, mobile, desktop, and supported console targets.
- HTML5, iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux, Steam, Poki, and more
- Small builds help web and mobile games load quickly
- Live Update support for content delivery after release
- Production games shipped by studios worldwide
Keep your projects flexible nad lightweight
Keep your projects flexible nad lightweight
Defold is one of the smallest engines in the market, and gives you customization and flexibility options. Shrink or extend the engine, and editor whenever you need it.
- Small size - only 1 MB empty HTML5 engine size, gzipped
- Cut out engine parts with a single App Manifest file
- Native extensions for SDKs, services, and platform-specific code
- Editor scripts and custom asset pipelines
- Monthly releases and a practical open ecosystem with source available
Why teams bring Defold into production
Defold keeps the core workflow compact while leaving room for custom rendering, native extensions, editor scripts, third-party services, and platform-specific publishing requirements.
Free forever
No up-front costs, no subscriptions, no seat licenses, and no royalties. Keep your budget focused on the game.
Ship everywhere
Build from one codebase for web, mobile, desktop, and supported console platforms using shared APIs and a unified pipeline.
Production ready
Use battle-tested extensions for analytics, app economy, game services, asset workflows, and publishing integrations.
Lightweight by design
Small builds, low memory use, and fast startup make Defold a strong fit for web games, mobile games, and content that needs to load quickly.
Small runtime, serious reach
Defold is engineered to minimize memory use, disk space, and CPU load while still giving teams a complete editor and deployment flow. This is especially useful for web portals, mobile-first teams, and publishers balancing acquisition cost with player retention.
Empty Project Build Size
Release builds · Default settings · No optimizations
Android arm64
iOS arm64, .ipa
HTML5 Wasm, Brotli
Windows
Test made using an empty project. Exported to the target platform using default settings. Release builds with no additional optimizations. Android and iOS values represent exported package size. The HTML5 value represents uncached download size when compressed with gzip.
Let's talk
We want to meet game studios, indie developers, publishers, and technology providers at Digital Dragons. Bring your roadmap, integration plans, publishing questions, or prototype, and we will help you assess where Defold fits.
We will be available in the Meet2Match application as well - search for Defold team members to book a meeting.
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