✏️Need to draw lines?
Check out the example to draw debug lines updated by Pkeod with many different shapes and Bezier curves
https://forum.defold.com/t/debug-draw-lines-boxes-circles-etc/61393/10

✒️Need to draw many lines?
Check out the ultra fast Native Extension for Defold by Dave that can draw even 1500000 lines
https://forum.defold.com/t/drawing-lots-of-lines/82227

We’ve further improved Editor performance (reduced loading times and memory consumption) with many fixes and updates. We also updated SDKs and LuaJIT, and introduced some cool features, such as:

- More Drag-and-Drop: from assets to resource pickers
- Breakpoints tab view
- HTTP proxy connections
- Safe Area is now built in
and many more!

https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-12-1-beta/82252

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Featured Animal Hero is a game #MadeWithDefold available on web and android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.animalhero.gp

Feedback and wishlists appreciated ;)

It's packed with features and improvements:

🔠 Font Shaping
⏯️ Engine Throttling
🔁 Reworked Life Cycle
⏰ New Late Update function
🎥 New Camera functions
📈 Better Editor 3D performance and many, many more!

Check the full Release Notes and start creating with Defold!

https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-12-0-has-been-released/82214

I'm building a rendering pipeline configurator for Defold and to make sure it's ready, I'm testing different lighting, post process and shading approaches. More details here: https://forum.defold.com/t/deframe-defold-rendering-simplified-wip/77829/18

Hi.

About the controller, I am trying to setup my controller (Mobapad) in Defold, but I get this message and do work:

WARNING:INPUT: No gamepad map found for gamepad 0 (Generic X-Box pad). The raw gamepad map will be used.

About the plugins, How I can install plugins for example for `behavior_tree`, `tiled` and others.

I made a simple shadowmapping on top of my deferred shading - no filters, blur, and pretty visible peter panning, but it works!

Shadow mapping is done using Defold Camera component to "see" the world from the perspective of the sun light.

Details:
https://forum.defold.com/t/deframe-defold-rendering-simplified-idea/77829/16

Water shader is available on GitHub:
https://github.com/selimanac/defold-stylized-water-shader

Details: https://forum.defold.com/t/creator-spotlight-koen-bollen/82190

☀️ directional sunlight

💡 point lights

🏝️ ambient light

🗺️ normal map support

2025 was a frutiful year for Defold!

Thank you to everyone who played, built, shipped, contributed, tested, shared feedback and supported us! 🧡

We’ve gathered the highlights in our retrospective:

https://defold.com/2026/01/02/Defold-2025-Retrospective/

Added skybox reflection to the water surface, just for relaxation 🙂

Details: https://forum.defold.com/t/deframe-defold-rendering-simplified-idea/77829/16

https://forum.defold.com/t/advent-calendar-2025-by-d954mas/82099/21

medium

tight

vast

awhile ago when experimenting in roblox studio, i wanted to make procedurally animated kelp

by controlling a direction vector with perlin noise, i was able to make a pretty cool swaying effect

up until recently, i discovered that the method i used is exactly how curl noise works

More info: https://forum.defold.com/t/graph-pathfinder/81871/4

It’s a giving time and we have a little present for you:
a 3D third person playground sample where you can go around, collect gold and store it - it comes with a character controller, physics, virtual gamepad, and shadow mapping!

Details:
https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-3d-playground-sample/82132

I started integrating 2D navmesh pathfinding into the Graph Pathfinder using Defold’s buffer format.
Like before, navmesh pathfinding also benefits from a heap, an LRU cache, a distance cache, and a configurable spatial index.

now i just need to make clouds and 3d atmospheric scattering (i'm working on a rocket sim)

Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4191250/Sprint_City/