Getting Started

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

Project Setup

• Creating a project
• Project settings
• Sharing projects
• Ignoring files

Editor

• Overview
• Code editor
• Custom project templates
• Editor scripts
• Editor scripts: UI
• Debugger
• 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
• 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
• Resolving collisions
• Ray casts
• Joints and constraints

Sound

• Sound
• Sound Streaming
• FMOD (English)

Input

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

Game logic

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

Files

• Working with files

Network Connections

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

Rendering

• Render
• Material
• Compute
• Shader
• Texture filtering

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Workflow

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

Debugging

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

Optimization

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

Monetization

• Ads
• In-app purchases (English)
• Xsolla (English)

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Android

• Introduction
• Advertising Info (English)
• AdMob ads (English)
• Android Device Performance Framework (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
• IronSource ad mediation (English)
• Push notifications (English)
• Safe Area (English)
• Webview (English)
• The mobile dev app

iOS

• Introduction
• 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
• IronSource ad mediation (English)
• Push notifications (English)
• Safe Area (English)
• Webview (English)
• The mobile dev app

Consoles

• Nintendo Switch
• PlayStation®4
• PlayStation®5
• Microsoft Xbox

HTML5

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

Desktop

• Linux
• macOS
• Windows

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Engine extensions

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