The Defold video tutorials are a strong starting point if you prefer to learn by watching workflows unfold step by step and hear the creator explanations.
A beginner-friendly tutorial series on creating a 2D platformer game in the Defold game engine, aiming to help viewers gradually learn game development. Introduction to creating a platformer game in Defold, covering sprites, tilemaps, and basic setup.
Part 2 of the series. Setting up inputs, scripting, and character movement.
Part 3 of the series. Implementing gravity, velocity, and collision handling.
Part 4 of the series. Adding jumping mechanics and debugging code.
Part 5 of the series. Adding particle effects and sound, with a detailed explanation of compensation functionality.
Part 6 of the series. Adding and handling the camera in the game.
This video explains the Messaging and Addressing system in Defold.
This time we just familiarize ourselves with Defold - it's core principles and basic building blocks - game objects, collections of those and components.
This is a generic guide for Defold beginners and enthusiasts, but also for anyone interested in what components are used in video games.
As a natural continuation of explaining how computer graphics are rendered, in this tutorial we dive into Defold Render Script.
Do you want to create breathtaking visual effects? Photorealistic or stylized games? You need to dig into how rendering works!
This video tackles a very frequently asked question - How to make lighting? Watch this video to learn how to add post-processing to your game with Screen Space Light Maps and implement it in Defold!
This video begins a tutorial series on making a simple space shooter game in Defold - similar to Galaga or Warblade, with a top down view and hordes of enemies you can shoot of with lasers and rockets.
Continuing the tutorial series on making a simple space shooter game in Defold! This time you will learn how to utilize collisions for detecting if enemy ships were hit by a projectile.
This is the 3rd, last part of the tutorial on making a very simple space shooter game like Galaga or Warblade in Defold! This concludes our effort to start game development with a quick project.
Let's take a look at Arcweave - a web tool to create interactive and branching games narratives with an export for Defold game engine.
In this session you’ll learn about how to install Defold on your desktop (Mac or Windows) as well as get oriented to the Defold Editor.
This session will provide instructions on how to load images to your Defold game project as well as how to position them within your game. Some basic animation techniques are also described.
A walkthrough is provided on how you can support a user selecting a specific game object and dragging it to a new location within your game.
This tutorial describes the procedures needed to move a Game Object using either a pre-defined path, or based on user inputs via mouse or touch.
Leveraging Defold’s Physics Engine – this tutorial reviews the concept of a collision object, used to trigger when one game object touches another, effects of gravity and bounce features.
A detailed description is provided on how you can incorporate button animations within the GUI as well as text notifications to users.
The final tutorial in this introductory series provides an explanation on how to accommodate multiple game levels to support different scenes or game chapters – as well as how to exchange information between game components.
This Tower Defense Tutorial will teach you the basics on how to incorporate the following features into a game: (1) splashscreens, (2) level selection menus, (3) help screens, (4) tank strikes, (5) tower placement, (6) fire exchange, (7) health resources, and (8) victory conditions.
This second video in our Tower Defense Series will focus on the design of Tank Collections and a Game Object representing the Enemy Tank's Final Objective.
Hang on for this third video in our Tower Defense Series – it focuses on game design techniques that facilitate the spawning of both Defensive Positions and Tower Collections, as well as supporting the ability to drag and drop Tower Objects across the game screen.
You just can’t have a Tower Defense game with modeling the exchange of gun fires between your deployed Towers…and the series of Tank Strikes that move toward their objective.
This fifth video in our Tower Defense Series will focus on design mechanics that support the inclusion of both a Resource as well as Health set of Scoring criteria. Additionally, it will address the addition of a popup that will let you either repair a tower, upgrade a tower or sell it outright.
This last video in our Tower Defense Series is going to focus on a couple pretty important concepts: (1) pausing a game using the Defold Collection Proxy Component, and (2) adjusting several game parameters within the game to achieve game balance.
Learn how to create a camera solution with smooth room transitions.
Learn how to changes scenes within your game.
Learn how to play background music and sound effects in Defold.
Learn how to spawn objects such as coins, enemies etc in Defold.
Learn how to use Trigger Collision objects in Defold.
Learn how to use dynamic collision objects and tilemaps to automatically resolve collisions.
Learn how to make the camera smoothly follow the player.
Learn how to use the Tiled tilemap editor with Defold.
Learn how to use the tilemap system in Defold.
Learn how to use the sprite sheet animations in Defold.
This game programming series by Game from Scratch covers covers all aspects of 2D game development in Defold. DISCLAIMER: This tutorial series shows the old editor and website. The new website does not require any login and account setup to create a project.
In this part of our ongoing Defold Tutorial Series, we look at the initial getting started process. We download and run the tools, create then run our first project. DISCLAIMER: This tutorial series shows the old editor and website. The new website does not require any login and account setup to create a project.
Welcome to the second tutorial in the Defold Game Engine series by Game from Scratch. Today we look at how a Defold application works. How collections, game objects and components are used together to create games. We then look at attaching a script and how the game lifecycle is resolved. DISCLAIMER: This tutorial series shows the old editor and website. The new website does not require any login and account setup to create a project.
In this part of the tutorial we look at creating flipbook style sprite animations. We look at the two ways it is supported, Atlas based and tilesheet based sprites. DISCLAIMER: This tutorial series shows the old editor and website. The new website does not require any login and account setup to create a project.
In the next part of our ongoing Defold Game Engine tutorial, we look at how you script. In addition we look at handling input and how message passing works, a critical concept. DISCLAIMER: This tutorial series shows the old editor and website. The new website does not require any login and account setup to create a project.
In this part of the Defold Game Engine tutorial series we are going to look at audio programming. Specifically how to play ogg and wav files using components and code. DISCLAIMER: This tutorial series shows the old editor and website. The new website does not require any login and account setup to create a project.
In this tutorial we look at quickly and easily creating 2D levels using the Defold editor and tile maps. DISCLAIMER: This tutorial series shows the old editor and website. The new website does not require any login and account setup to create a project.
In this tutorial on using the Defold Game Engine, we explore how to use the integrated Box2D physics. DISCLAIMER: This tutorial series shows the old editor and website. The new website does not require any login and account setup to create a project.
In this tutorial we look at GUI/UI programming in the Defold game engine. DISCLAIMER: This tutorial series shows the old editor and website. The new website does not require any login and account setup to create a project.
In this first lesson, we are going over the game engine IDE, its main blocks and its capabilities as engine to create multiplatform games.
In this video, we will start to take a look at the building blocks of creating a game for the engine.
In this video, we are implementing an enemy with a basic behavior of walking forward until colliding with a wall and then flipping into the opposite direction. We will add animations to the enemy and to the player that was implemented in the previous video.
In this video, we are continuing from the previous video and build a detect and attack behavior for our skeleton enemy. For this to work, we have to implement trigger detection, collision enabling and disabling, frame count detection to synchronize the hitbox enabling with the frame animation, and finally applying the damage to the player.
Procedural 2D terrain generation with procedural climate change animation using Defold engine and Lua programming language.
How to use AdMob in Defold.
A Technical breakdown of how Taxi Town and Lunar Orbit were created using Defold.
Tutorial on making grids and working with arrays in Defold.
In this video, Klayton explain what a cellular automaton is, how it works, and how to implement it.
In this video, Klayton explain what a cellular automaton is, how it works, and how to implement it.
In this video, Klayton explain what the diamond square algorithm is, how it works, and how to implement it.
In this video, Klayton explain what the lazy flood fill algorithm algorithm is, how it works, and how to implement it.
In this video we explain how to better design scene and level loading in your game? How does Defold manage memory under the hood?
In this video we explain how to use an app manifest to reduce the size of your game.
In this video we explain the concept of message passing and the basics of game object addressing.
How to modify the rendering pipeline of Defold. Overview of the render script, Shaders, materials and how to modify them. Implementing a full screen post effect.
In this video we explain addressing in the context of factory created game objects and in nested collections. We also discuss the performance of message passing.
In this video we explain what Live Update is and how to use it.
How are message URLs constructed and what are the parts that make up a full URL to an object in Defold?
In this video we explain how to use Live Update to push new content to live games.
This is a four part tutorial for making a simple hyper casual game called Square Fall. In part 1 you will create the project and do some initial setup (11 steps).
This is a four part tutorial for making a simple hyper casual game called Square Fall. In part 2 you will create the start screen (9 steps).
This is a four part tutorial for making a simple hyper casual game called Square Fall. In part 3 you will create the fully functioning game (35 steps).
This is a four part tutorial for making a simple hyper casual game called Square Fall. Part 4 is the final video. In this part you will create the gameover screen (11 steps).
Comprehensive tutorial on exporting tilemaps created in Tiled to the Defold game engine.
Discover the secrets of customizing your game's background color in the Defold game engine.
Learn how to make 3D controller.
New here? Start with a guided route suited to you, get a project running quickly, then continue through tutorials, manuals, courses, videos, examples, and community help without dead ends.
This is a dedicated introduction to Defold.
Start with practical tutorials that take you from first project to working game features.
Learn by watching walkthroughs, feature deep-dives, and creator tutorials.
Build a solid mental model of the editor, engine systems, and APIs.
Browse focused code samples, small projects, and reusable snippets.
Follow structured learning paths from beginner concepts to complete projects.
Ask questions, get unstuck, and learn with help from the Defold team and community. ↗
Look up Defold Lua and native extension APIs when you need exact details.
