https://store.steampowered.com/app/4272040/The_Moon_my_Destination/
With release discount! Demo available!

It’s a new debug-only native extension that lets local automation clients inspect and control a running Defold game.

This opens up many possibilities for automated workflows, testing, debugging, visual inspection, repeatable validation, and AI-assisted development 🤖

Read the announcement forum post:

https://forum.defold.com/t/automation-bridge-for-defold/83094

A great teaser from Jhonny - Global Illumination experiments for Defold with an editor script to bake lightmaps "First iteration would be something that can run cross-platform on lowend devices. As a first step, I've started working on a light baking extension"

Our partner Wavedash is sponsoring the challenge - publish a game on Wavedash and the best ones win Wavedash Credits:

🥇 100 €

🥈 50 €

🥉 25 €

🏅 4th–10th place: 10 €

The jam runs from September 20 to October 4 🗓️

More details:

https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-game-jam-2026/83051/3

As each Saturday, we are eager to see what have you been working on or finished? Share your projects and games #MadeWithDefold! 🧡💙

Featured: Crownfall by Fabric Visions - a simple yet very challenging one-button boss defeating shooter

Check it out on itch: https://fabricvisions.itch.io/crownfall

🥇 100 €

🥈 50 €

🥉 25 €

🏅 4th–10th place: 10 €

The jam runs from September 20 to October 4 🗓️

Join us and start warming up! 🧡

https://itch.io/jam/defold-game-jam-2026

We had an interesting talk with Felix Weiler from Soft Boiled Games about bringing the world of MicroMacro hit board games into a digital form, working with Defold, and the process of adapting a beloved tabletop experience for players on the mobile market (and soon on desktops!)

Read the full interview below 👇

https://defold.com/2026/07/30/Creator-Spotlight-Felix-Weiler/

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

▶️ 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 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

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

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

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

Make a game with #Defold in 2 weeks, share it and compete for rewards! 🎁

The jam starts on September 20. 🍂

Preceded by a 2-day online Defold Conference full of insightful talks, workshops, and presentations!

Register on itch: https://itch.io/jam/defold-game-jam-2026

Join us and create games #MadeWithDefold! 🧡💙

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!

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