Platformer Defold Tutorial 1 - Sprites, Tilemaps, Basic Setup

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.

Platformer Defold Tutorial 2 - Inputs, Scripting, Movement

Part 2 of the series. Setting up inputs, scripting, and character movement.

Platformer Defold Tutorial 3 - Gravity, Velocity, Collisions

Part 3 of the series. Implementing gravity, velocity, and collision handling.

Platformer Defold Tutorial 4 - Jumping, debugging

Part 4 of the series. Adding jumping mechanics and debugging code.

Platformer Defold Tutorial 5 - Particles, Sound

Part 5 of the series. Adding particle effects and sound, with a detailed explanation of compensation functionality.

Platformer Defold Tutorial 6 - Camera

Part 6 of the series. Adding and handling the camera in the game.

How does Messaging and Addressing Systems work in Defold?

This video explains the Messaging and Addressing system in Defold.

Defold Building Blocks - objects and components, editor and lifecycle overview

This time we just familiarize ourselves with Defold - it's core principles and basic building blocks - game objects, collections of those and components.

Defold Components - generic overview, beginners tutorial

This is a generic guide for Defold beginners and enthusiasts, but also for anyone interested in what components are used in video games.

Defold Render Script Explained

As a natural continuation of explaining how computer graphics are rendered, in this tutorial we dive into Defold Render Script.

How graphics works? Render pipeline explained. Example OpenGL + Defold

Do you want to create breathtaking visual effects? Photrealistic or stylized games? You need to dig into how rendering works!

Simple Lighting in Defold - Screen Space Light Maps

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!

Defold Space Shooter - Gamedev Tutorial for Beginners - 1/3 Sprites, Inputs, Scripts

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.

Defold Space Shooter - Gamedev Tutorial for Beginners - 2/3 Collisions, Factories

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.

Defold Space Shooter - Gamedev Tutorial for Beginners - 3/3 Particle Effects, Sounds, GUI

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.

How to make branching interactive dialogs in your game?

Let's take a look at Arcweave - a web tool to create interactive and branching games narratives with an export for Defold game engine.

Defold Installation and Overview

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.

Defold Image Procedures

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.

Defold Drag and Drop

A walkthough is provided on how you can support a user selecting a specific game object and dragging it to a new location within your game.

Defold Movement

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.

Defold Physics

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.

Defold GUI

A detailed description is provided on how you can incorporate button animations within the GUI as well as text notifications to users.

Defold Levels and Lua Modules

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.

Build a Tower Defense game - Opening Sequence

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.

Build a Tower Defense game - Tanks and Objectives

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.

Build a Tower Defense game - Tower Deployment

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.

Build a Tower Defense game - Fire Exchange

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.

Build a Tower Defense game - Scoring and Tower Upgrade Process

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.

Build a Tower Defense game - Game Pause and Tutorial Wrap-up

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.

Zelda Style Camera With Defold - Smooth Room Transition Camera

Learn how to create a camera solution with smooth room transitions.

Change Scenes with Defold - Use Lua Modules, Load new Scene, Control on Factories

Learn how to changes scenes within your game.

Sounds with Defold - Play Background Music, Coin Collect sound, Walk Sound etc

Learn how to play background music and sound effects in Defold.

Defold Factories - Spawn Game Objects

Learn how to spawn objects such as coins, enemies etc in Defold.

Defold Trigger Collision - Collectibles and Area Enter

Learn how to use Trigger Collision objects in Defold.

Defold Simple Collisions Without coding - Top-Down Tilemap and Player Collisions

Learn how to use dynamic collision objects and tilemaps to automatically resolve collisions.

Defold Camera - How to Make the camera follow the player?

Learn how to make the camera smoothly follow the player.

Tiled - How to use Tiled with Defold=

Learn how to use the Tiled tilemap editor with Defold.

Tilemaps - How to use built-in tilemaps with Defold?

Learn how to use the tilemap system in Defold.

Sprite sheet animations - How to use sprite sheet animations in Defold?

Learn how to use the sprite sheet animations in Defold.

Series Introduction

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.

Getting Started

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.

Application Basics

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.

Sprites and Animations

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.

Input, Scripting and Messages

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.

Sound and Music

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.

Tilemaps

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.

Physics

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.

UI Programming

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.

How to use Texture Packer Sprite Sheets and Animations with Defold?

This video explains how you can easily create Sprite Sheets in TexturePacker and use them in the Defold game engine.

Lua Tutorial

Learn Lua in one hour.

Lua in 100 seconds

An overview of the Lua language.

Scrolling background

How to create a scrolling background.

Top Down Movement

How to create a top-down player movement controller.

Follow mouse

How to make an object follow the mouse pointer or finger.

Rotate to mouse

How to make an object rotate towards the mouse pointer or finger.

Introduction to Defold

In this first lesson, we are going over the game engine IDE, its main blocks and its capabilities as engine to create multiplatform games.

Creating a platformer protoype

In this video, we will start to take a look at the building blocks of creating a game for the engine.

Enemy movement and animations

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.

Enemy melee attack

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 with Climate

Procedural 2D terrain generation with procedural climate change animation using Defold engine and Lua programming language.

AdMob extension for Defold

How to use AdMob in Defold.

Taxi Town and Lunar Orbit - Technical breakdown

A Technical breakdown of how Taxi Town and Lunar Orbit were created using Defold.

Grids and Arrays

Tutorial on making grids and working with arrays in Defold.

Cellular Automata and Procedural Map Generation

In this video, Klayton explain what a cellular automaton is, how it works, and how to implement it.

Diamond Square and Procedural Map Generation

In this video, Klayton explain what a cellular automaton is, how it works, and how to implement it.

Cellular Automata and Procedural Map Generation

In this video, Klayton explain what the diamond square algorithm is, how it works, and how to implement it.

Lazy Flood Fill and Procedural Map Generation

In this video, Klayton explain what the lazy flood fill algorithm algorithm is, how it works, and how to implement it.

Defold Team Explains #1 - Collection Proxies and memory management

In this video we explain how to better design scene and level loading in your game? How does Defold manage memory under the hood?

Defold Team Explains #2 - App Manifest in Defold and the manifestation tool

In this video we explain how to use an app manifest to reduce the size of your game.

Defold Team Explains #3 - The basics of addressing and message passing

In this video we explain the concept of message passing and the basics of game object addressing.

Defold Team Explains #4 - How to add post effects to a Defold game

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.

Defold Team Explains #5 - Talking to objects created by Collection Factories

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.

Defold Team Explains #6 - Why Live Update is essential for your game

In this video we explain what Live Update is and how to use it.

Defold Team Explains #7 - Constructing and deconstructing URLs, caching senders

How are message URLs constructed and what are the parts that make up a full URL to an object in Defold?

Defold Team Explains #8 - How to push new content to live games

In this video we explain how to use Live Update to push new content to live games.

How To Make a Hyper Casual Game - Square Fall Tutorial Part 1

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).

How To Make a Hyper Casual Game - Square Fall Tutorial Part 2

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).

How To Make a Hyper Casual Game - Square Fall Tutorial Part 3

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).

How To Make a Hyper Casual Game - Square Fall Tutorial Part 4

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).

Exporting Tiled Tilemaps to Defold

Comprehensive tutorial on exporting tilemaps created in Tiled to the Defold game engine.

Customize Game Background Colors in Defold

Discover the secrets of customizing your game's background color in the Defold game engine.

How to make 3D controller in the Defold game engine

Learn how to make 3D controller.

Build a Pong with Defold - Beginner Series

Let's build a Pong using the Defold game engine!

Complete Defold Course - Learn Beginner/Intermediate Level

Master Defold - a free and powerful game engine for building 2D & 3D games!

Defold Platformer Mini-Course

Create your own 2D platformer game with Defold!