Getting Started

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

Project Setup

• Creating a project
• Project settings
• Sharing projects

Editor

• Overview
• Code editor
• Custom project templates
• Editor scripts
• Editor scripts: UI (English)
• Debugger (English)
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Preferences
• Refactoring
• Styling

Core Concepts

• Building blocks
• Addressing
• Message passing
• Application lifecycle

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Assets and Resources

• Importing assets
• Caching assets
• Importing 2D graphics
• Importing 3D models
• Adapting to different screen sizes
• Live update
• Atlas
• Buffer (English)
• Font
• Runtime TTF Font (English)
• Resource management
• Tile source
• Texture filtering
• Texture compression

Animations

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

Components

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

GUI

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

Physics

• Physics overview
• Collision objects
• Collision shapes
• Collision groups
• Collision messages
• Collision events listener (English)
• Resolving collisions
• Ray casts
• Joints and constraints

Sound

• Sound
• FMOD (English)

Input

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

Game logic

• Scripts
• Properties
• Script properties
• Lua in Defold
• Source code obfuscation (English)
• Modules
• Debugging
• Writing code

Files

• Working with files (English)

Network Connections

• Overview (English)
• HTTP Requests (English)
• Socket connections (English)
• WebSocket connections (English)
• Online services (English)

Rendering

• Render (English)
• Material (English)
• Compute (English)
• Shader (English)
• Texture filtering

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Workflow

• Application security (English)
• Bundling an application (English)
• Caching assets
• Command line tools (English)
• Hot reloading (English)
• Porting guidelines (English)
• Refactoring
• The mobile dev app (English)
• Version control (English)
• Writing code
• Working offline (English)

Debugging

• Debugging game logic
• Debugging native code (English)
• Debugging native code on Android (English)
• Debugging native code on iOS (English)
• Reading game and system logs (English)

Optimization

• Optimizing an application (English)
• Optimize game size (English)
• Optimize runtime performance (English)
• Optimize battery usage (English)
• Optimize memory usage (English)
• Profiling (English)

Monetization

• Ads
• In-app purchases (English)

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Android

• Introduction
• Advertising Info (English)
• AdMob ads (English)
• App review and ratings (English)
• Camera (English)
• Facebook (English)
• Firebase Analytics (English)
• Firebase Remote Config (English)
• Google Play Game Services (English)
• Google Play Instant (English)
• Inter-app communication (English)
• IronSource ad mediation (English)
• Push notifications (English)
• Safe Area (English)
• Webview (English)
• The mobile dev app (English)

iOS

• Introduction (English)
• Advertising Info (English)
• AdMob ads (English)
• App review and ratings (English)
• Camera (English)
• Facebook (English)
• Firebase Analytics (English)
• Firebase Remote Config (English)
• Inter-app communication (English)
• IronSource ad mediation (English)
• Push notifications (English)
• Safe Area (English)
• Webview (English)
• The mobile dev app (English)

Consoles

• Nintendo Switch (English)
• PlayStation®4 (English)
• PlayStation®5 (English)
• Microsoft Xbox (English)

HTML5

• Introduction (English)
• CrazyGames (English)
• Facebook (English)
• Facebook Instant Games (English)
• Poki (English)

Desktop

• Linux (English)
• macOS (English)
• Windows (English)

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Engine extensions

• Introduction (English)
• Defold SDK (English)
• Gradle dependencies (English)
• Cocoapod dependencies (English)
• Adding auto-complete definition (English)
• Best Practices (English)
• Debugging (English)
• Extension Manifests (English)
• App Manifests (English)
• Manifest Merging (English)
• The Lua C API (external) (English)
• Setup local build server (English)
• Avaialble Docker images to run Extender (English)