Defold blog
The Defold blog contains a mix of Defold news and development updates. From time to time we also invite guest bloggers.
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Defold release 1.11.2 - Nov 03, 2025
Defold release 1.11.1 - Oct 08, 2025
Towards First-Class Teal Support - Sep 11, 2025
Defold release 1.11.0 - Sep 08, 2025
Photon Realtime integration - Aug 14, 2025
Defold release 1.10.4 - Aug 04, 2025
Editor scripting improvements in the upcoming 1.10.4 version - Jul 11, 2025
Defold release 1.10.3 - Jul 07, 2025
Innovation is expensive and painful. Start with copying a decent bike. - Jun 18, 2025
Defold release 1.10.2 - Jun 10, 2025
Hg point
Innovation is expensive and painful. Start with copying a decent bike. - Jun 18, 2025
Playgama
Innovation is expensive and painful. Start with copying a decent bike. - Jun 18, 2025
Showreel
Defold 2024 Showreel - Mar 05, 2025
Blog
How does Defold provide console support? - Oct 01, 2023
Is Defold production ready? - Sep 28, 2023
Code
Mastering Render Targets - Nov 13, 2023
Working with public and private repos - Sep 18, 2023
Improving on our json Lua module - Nov 18, 2022
Performance optimizations in Lands of Blight - Nov 02, 2022
The feature request journey - Sep 16, 2022
The Defold engine code overview - Dec 27, 2020
Shaders for Beginners - Oct 19, 2020
The Defold engine code style - May 31, 2020
Consoles
Working with public and private repos - Sep 18, 2023
Contributor spotlight
Contributor Spotlight - Orestis Tsakiridis - Apr 21, 2021
Creator spotlight
Innovation is expensive and painful. Start with copying a decent bike. - Jun 18, 2025
Unpacking Armageddon - May 03, 2024
Choosing Defold for Steam games production - the story of Luden.io - Sep 07, 2023
Monkey Mart is bananas! - Mar 22, 2023
Releasing Void Scrappers on Nintendo Switch - Mar 13, 2023
Void Scrappers post mortem - Nov 24, 2022
12 games, 12 months, 1 story - May 19, 2022
Creator Spotlight - Adam Engebretson - Apr 26, 2021
Creator Spotlight - Igor Suntsev - Feb 04, 2021
Creator Spotlight - Paweł Jarosz - Jan 06, 2021
Creator Spotlight - Denis Volkov - Nov 17, 2020
Creator Spotlight - Brian Kramer - Nov 05, 2020
Creator Spotlight - Ben James - Oct 27, 2020
Creator Spotlight - Sergey - Oct 15, 2020
Creator Spotlight - Marius - Sep 02, 2020
Creator Spotlight - Niclas - Aug 03, 2020
Creator Spotlight - Alex - Jul 20, 2020
Developer case study
Performance optimizations in Lands of Blight - Nov 02, 2022
The making of BoxRob - Aug 04, 2022
12 games, 12 months, 1 story - May 19, 2022
Developer case study - Solitaire Jazz Travel - Jun 15, 2021
Creating point and click adventure games using Defold - Jun 07, 2021
How to successfully release games on Poki with Defold - Jun 01, 2021
Developer Case Study - Mahjong Cards - May 03, 2021
Developer case study - Open My Game - Mar 15, 2021
Developer case study - From fantasy computer to Defold - Mar 09, 2021
Editor
Editor scripting improvements in the upcoming 1.10.4 version - Jul 11, 2025
Announcing editor scripts for UI creation - Sep 26, 2024
Engine
Working with public and private repos - Sep 18, 2023
Improving on our json Lua module - Nov 18, 2022
The feature request journey - Sep 16, 2022
Application Security - Jun 30, 2022
The Defold engine code overview - Dec 27, 2020
The Defold engine code style - May 31, 2020
Vulkan progress update - Sep 19, 2019
Extender
Defold cloud builder improvements - Sep 23, 2024
Game jam
Unpacking Armageddon - May 03, 2024
Big list of game jam advice - Jul 22, 2022
Yandex.Games Jam Results - Feb 01, 2022
Winners of the Web Monetization Challenge 2020 - Dec 14, 2020
The Defold Foundation is hosting a Web Monetization game jam - Sep 29, 2020
Gamedistribution
Monetize your games with GameDistribution - Aug 09, 2023
Releasing HTML5 games on Game Distribution - Mar 14, 2021
Gcp
Defold cloud builder improvements - Sep 23, 2024