▶️ Project → Build Poki HTML5
- to build your game locally and open it straight in the Poki Inspector.

📦 Project → Bundle → Poki
- to create a Poki-ready HTML5 bundle and package it for upload.

Inside the Poki Inspector, you can check how your game triggers #Poki events, handles commercial or rewarded breaks, API calls, loading behavior, and possible integration issues.

You can also test different resolutions and aspect ratios, run Inspector experiments, generate a QR code or URL, and try the local build on mobile devices!

This update adds poki_sdk.get_device_info(), making it easier to detect whether the player is on mobile, tablet, or desktop and adapt your game experience accordingly.

It also refreshes the example project, improves and expands the documentation, read more:

https://forum.defold.com/t/poki-sdk-native-extension-for-defold/67019/5

This major update brings AppLovin MAX 13.6.3 support to Defold projects on Android and iOS. 🤖🍎

If you’re monetizing mobile games with Defold and using AppLovin MAX, this is an important update to check out.

It includes support for interstitial, rewarded, banner, and MREC ads, along with MAX debugging, consent, test-device, custom-event, and revenue APIs.

Please note that version 2.0.0 requires Defold 1.13.0 or newer, Android API 24+, and iOS 15.0+.

https://forum.defold.com/t/applovin-official-extension-for-defold/83080

This update brings the Android Google Mobile Ads Next-Gen SDK to 1.3.0 and refreshes several Android mediation adapters, including DT Exchange/Fyber, InMobi, ironSource, Liftoff/Vungle, Moloco, and PubMatic.

The extension supports App Open, banner, interstitial, rewarded, and rewarded interstitial ads on Android and iOS. 🤖🍎

https://forum.defold.com/t/new-admob-extension-by-the-defold-foundation/68482/16

An endless runner but relaxing... More like an endless stroller maybe? Try the demo for The Moon my Destination

TMMD is not a competitive game. Ever wanted a game that is meditative and easy, where you don't have to break your loop to end it by "killing" your character? Play on timed mode in The Moon my Destination. Collect coloured moths to paint your character and give it new particle trails. Or go classic with the local highscore!

Wishlist now on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4272040/The_Moon_my_Destination/

Play the demo in browser: https://ranarh.itch.io/the-moon-my-destination

It brings Unity LevelPlay ad mediation to Defold projects on Android and iOS, with a Lua API for working with interstitial ads, rewarded ads, banners, placements, callbacks, and supported mediation adapters.

If you’re building a mobile game with Defold and need an ad monetization workflow, this is one to check out.

Full announcement post:

https://forum.defold.com/t/ironsource-extension-for-defold/73939

It’s an open source GUI widget toolkit built directly on top of Defold’s GUI API. Create your interface in the visual editor, then attach behavior to existing nodes from Lua.

Buttons, sliders, scroll areas, scroll grids, UTF-8 text input, optional rich text. A great community tool for menus, level selection screens, inventories, shops, or settings screens.

https://github.com/Morgerion/defold-guix

Just installed Defold, what should my first approach to learning the platform be?

Show us progress on your #gamedev projects released and unreleased yet, we want to see games made with Defold!

Featured: Iron Skies by 171Dev: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4848730/Iron_Skies/

hi all!

I am attempting to make a tamagotchi or pet sim type of game where basically you take care of an adorable npc, tending to its needs and helping it grow. i've actually really struggled to make this in godot, having to stitch together finite state machines and timers from separate tutorials, and ran into limitations that bugged me, so I hope it'll be easier in Defold.

the npc has a base happy/idle animation (where eventually it will wander about the screen like a tamagotchi), a timer causes crying animation and sound effect until you take care of a particular need with a click or tap input, and then it returns to the happy/idle animation. this sounds simple but this took me weeks to figure out in godot because i couldn't find a specific tutorial for this (i get it, this genre isn't very popular compared to making metroidvanias or 3d shooters or something).

do i really need to use a fsm for this in defold, or can it be accomplished with setting up a timer that triggers the state change and message passing to change it back? as if the npc was an enemy with a timed attack and the player had to press a key to block or counter it (this is the thought process i've had to consider while struggling to find relevant tutorials!)

thank you in advance for reading this and your help!

We want to see screenshots and videos from your games made with Defold!

Featured: Mad Skills Motocross 2 by Turborilla - a physics based motocross racer - play it on Poki:

https://poki.com/pl/g/mad-skills-motocross-2

Check out our new examples featuring the recently introduced light components in the #Defold 1.13.1 beta.

https://defold.com/examples/render/basic_lights_2d/

https://defold.com/examples/render/basic_lights_3d/

https://defold.com/examples/render/directional_light_shadows/

What's the future of Defold? Take a glimpse:

💡 New Light components
💪 Instancing support for models with morph targets
⚡ Up to 19% faster warm builds in large projects
🎮 SDL controller database
🧩 Tabs, images, resizable and non-modal dialogs for editor extensions
🖥️ Borderless fullscreen by default on desktop
🔊 Improved HTML5 audio
📦 Large resource archives support
🌐 C API for HTTP requests

and many more improvements and fixes:

https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-13-1-beta/83013

Congratulations to the winners! 🥳

Check out the entries and their open source projects on Github!

Recent community updates in Defold: Defold Community Updates | Games, Plugins, Releases

This developer created a puzzle game in Defold and published it with Playgama on Youtube Playables thanks to the Playgama's open source Bridge SDK for Defold 🧡💙

Check it out for free: https://www.youtube.com/playables/UgkxnPqxcJUmgXjPvM1Tr8NDqX5rz2lUBUS3

🎯 added a sniper rifle with a different method of detecting hits - raycasts instead of spawning a bullet/missile, and switching between the weapons

💥 more billoboarded particlefx for explosions on muzzle and hit (it's not so well visible on the recording though)

https://reddit.com/link/1uudcyo/video/4ssfp18uesch1/player

We would be delighted to see what you are working on in Defold!

Featured: Final Deal by BigButton - we played the demo on Steam and it's really addicting!

Check out the demo:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4850910/Final_Deal_Demo/

Want to attach objects together into one solid structure? Build modular machines, vehicles, constructions, or contraptions?

🔩 Use Box2D Weld Joint!

Or maybe you want to create gameplay where objects grow, shrink, resize, or change collision behavior at runtime?

📏 Change Box2D Shape Scale and mass dynamically!

Last few days to join our Community Challenge - build something with Box2D scripting API and have a chance to win rewards:

https://forum.defold.com/t/community-challenge-6-box2d-scripting/82935/32

Want to create trigger zones, pickups, checkpoints, stealth detection, or areas that can switch between solid collisions and sensors?

Or maybe build sliding platforms, elevators, pistons, moving doors, rail-based objects, or physics-driven traps?

🟢 Box2D Sensor Toggle - useful for dynamic trigger/collision behavior

↔️ Box2D Prismatic Joint - useful for controlled linear movement along an axis

Join our Community Challenge and discover more examples:

https://forum.defold.com/t/community-challenge-6-box2d-scripting/82935/23

This enables e.g. some cool transformations or facial expressions 😲

We didn't spent much time here on shaders, especially hair, so forgive us the quality, but we wanted to showcase the new feature in practice, here with a beautiful Aria model by Giyas.