Getting started

• Introduction
• Installing Defold
• The editor
• Glossary
• Defold for Flash users
• Getting help

Project setup

• Creating a project
• Project settings
• Libraries

Core concepts

• Building blocks
• Addressing
• Message passing
• Application lifecycle

Assets and resources

• Importing assets
• Importing 2D graphics
• Importing 3D models
• Adapting to different screen sizes
• Live update
• Atlas
• Font
• Resource management
• Tile source
• Texture filtering
• Texture profiles

Animations

• Overview
• Flipbook Animation
• Model animation
• Property animation (tweens)
• Spine animation

Components

• Overview
• Collection factory
• Collection proxy
• Collision object
• Camera
• Factory
• Label
• Mesh
• Model
• Particle FX
• Sound
• Spine
• Sprite
• Tilemap

Gui

• GUI overview
• Box nodes
• Text nodes
• Pie nodes
• Spine nodes
• ParticleFX nodes
• Template nodes
• Scripts
• Clipping
• Layouts

Physics

• Physics overview
• Collision objects
• Collision shapes
• Collision groups
• Collision messages
• Resolving collisions
• Ray casts
• Joints and constraints

Sound

• Sound
• FMOD

Input

• Overview
• Key and text input
• Mouse and touch
• Gamepads

Game logic

• Scripts
• Properties
• Script properties
• Lua in Defold
• Modules
• Debugging
• Writing code

Saving and loading files

• Working with files

Networking

• Overview
• HTTP Requests
• Socket connections
• WebSocket connections
• Online services

Rendering

• Render
• Material
• Shader
• Texture filtering

Workflow

• Adapting to different screen sizes
• Bundling an application
• Bob the builder
• Hot reloading
• Optimizing an application
• Profiling
• Refactoring
• The mobile dev app
• Version control
• Writing code
• Working offline

Debugging

• Debugging game logic
• Debugging native code
• Debugging native code on Android
• Debugging native code on iOS
• Reading game and system logs
• Profiling

Platforms

• Android
• iOS
• Nintendo Switch
• Linux
• HTML5
• macOS
• Windows

Monetization

• Ads
• In-app purchases
• Web Monetization

Extensions

• Advertising Info
• Camera
• Facebook
• Facebook Instant Games
• Firebase Analytics
• Google Play Game Services
• Google Play Instant
• In-app purchases
• Inter-app communication
• Push notifications
• App review and ratings
• WebMonetization
• WebSocket
• Webview

Native extensions

• Introduction
• Details
• Defold SDK
• Adding auto-complete definition
• Best Practices
• Debugging
• Build Variants
• Manifest Merging

Editor extensions

• Editor scripts