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.

Colorslide

In this medium difficulty tutorial you build an in-game GUI, a GUI screen for level selection and a start screen for a simple multi level mobile game.

War battles

In this tutorial you will create the embryo of a small shooter game. This is a good starting point if you are new to Defold.

How to Make a Game in Defold

In this tutorial by Zenva, we will be going over the very basics of Defold, from installation to creating our very first game! If you are new to Defold, or have never touched game development in your life, then don’t worry, as we will guide you through and provide you with a complete introduction to the Defold game engine.

Snake

If you are new to Defold, this tutorial will help you to get started with script logic together with a few of the building blocks in Defold.

15 puzzle

If you are new to Defold, this tutorial will help you to lab with a few of the building blocks in Defold and run script logic.

Shadertoy

In this tutorial you will convert a shader from shadertoy.com to Defold.

Texture scrolling

In this tutorial you will learn how to use a shader to scroll a repeating texture.

Runner

In this tutorial you start with an empty project and build a complete runner game with an animated character, physics collision, pickups and scoring.

Magic link

In this tutorial you will build a complete little puzzle game with a start screen, the mechanics of the game and simple level progression in the form of increasing difficulty.

Building a car

If you are new to Defold, this tutorial will help you getting your bearings right in the editor. It also explains the basic ideas and the most common building blocks in Defold - game objects, collections, scripts and sprites.

Creating online games using Nakama and Defold

In this tutorial we will look at how to create online multiplayer games in Defold using the open-source Nakama game server from Heroic Labs.

Releasing HTML5 games on Yandex.Games

In this blog post we’ll look at how to add the Yandex.Games SDK to a Defold game and how to submit your game to the Yandex.Games catalog.

Releasing HTML5 games on Game Distribution

In this blog post we'll look at how to add the Game Distribution SDK to an existing game or how to create one from scratch. We will also look at how to submit your game for distribution through the Game Distribution network.

Shaders for Beginners

In this guest tutorial Paweł Jarosz, developer of Witchcrafter: Empire Legends, share his experience learning shader programming in general and for Defold in particular.

Color grading

In this tutorial you will create a full screen post effect in Defold.

Tactx Studios tutorials

These tutorials illustrate several common features of the Defold Game Engine, to include: (a) Image Procedures, (b) Dragging and Dropping Game Objects, (c) various Game Object Movement Techniques, (d) Preliminary use of 2d Physics based Collisions, (e) Graphic User Interface (GUI), and (f) an introduction to Defold Levels, Messaging and Menu Development.

Lights and Shadows

This sample project shows how to achieve pixel perfect shadows in a 2D view.

Pixel Line Platformer

This sample project shows how to create a platformer game using original art created by Kenney.

Asteroids

This is a very simple 'Asteroids' clone where you turn the ship left and right with the arrow keys and fire at incoming meteors with space.

Linker

This sample project shows how to create a linker game. Click and drag and link three or more fish of the same color together to remove them from the board. Long chains of fish yields boosters.

Shadertoy

This sample project shows how to port a Shadertoy shader to to Defold.

Platformer

In this tutorial, you go through the implementation of a basic tile-based 2D platformer in Defold. The mechanics you learn are moving left/right, jumping and falling.

RPG Map

This sample project shows one method of creating very large screen based RPG maps in Defold.

Main menu

In this sample project, you learn effects to present a main menu.

Parallax

In this sample project, you learn how to use a parallax effect to simulate depth in the game world.

Hud

In this sample project, you learn effects for score counting.

Level complete

In this sample, you learn effects to show the score counting that could occur when a level has been completed.