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Defold Building Blocks - objects and components, editor and lifecycle overview

This time we just familiarize ourselves with Defold - it's core principles and basic building blocks - game objects, collections of those and components.

Defold Components - generic overview, beginners tutorial

This is a generic guide for Defold beginners and enthusiasts, but also for anyone interested in what components are used in video games.

Defold Render Script Explained

As a natural continuation of explaining how computer graphics are rendered, in this tutorial we dive into Defold Render Script.

Side scroller

This tutorial is intended to give a taste of what making games in Defold is about. It goes through creating a new project, based on a simple side-scroller. You will then learn how to tweak the game to make it more fun. Finally you will add a new game object. The tutorial should only take about 10 minutes.

Walking astronaut

In this beginner's tutorial you learn how to capture player input and make a character move and animate. You will also learn about game objects, components and collections.

Movement

In this beginner's tutorial you learn how to make realistic movement using vectors and some simple vector algebra.