Getting Started

• Introduction
• Installing Defold (English)
• Glossary (English)
• Defold for Flash users (English)
• Getting help (English)

Project Setup

• Creating a project (English)
• Project settings (English)
• Sharing projects

Editor

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

Core Concepts

• Building blocks
• Addressing
• Message passing (English)
• Application lifecycle

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Assets and Resources

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

Animations

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

Components

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

GUI

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

Physics

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

Sound

• Sound (English)
• FMOD (English)

Input

• Overview (English)
• Key and text input (English)
• Mouse and touch (English)
• Gamepads (English)

Game logic

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

File I/O

• 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)
• Shader (English)
• Texture filtering (English)

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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 (English)
• The mobile dev app (English)
• Version control (English)
• Writing code (English)
• Working offline (English)

Debugging

• Debugging game logic (English)
• 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)
• Profiling (English)

Monetization

• Ads (English)
• In-app purchases (English)
• Web Monetization (English)

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Android

• Introduction (English)
• 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)
• Push notifications (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)
• Push notifications (English)
• Webview (English)
• The mobile dev app (English)

Consoles

• Nintendo Switch (English)
• Sony PlayStation (English)
• Microsoft Xbox (English)

HTML5

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

Desktop

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

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Engine extensions

• Introduction (English)
• Details (English)
• Defold SDK (English)
• Adding auto-complete definition (English)
• Best Practices (English)
• Debugging (English)
• Build Variants (English)
• Manifest Merging (English)
• The Lua C API (external) (English)