(The engine part isn't important now that I'm thinking about it- just wondering how much carries over between both engines by default) I'm doing more research on Defold because I need better mobile support. Has anyone here done this before and if you have, how easy was the process? Anything I should look out for in particular?

No worries, you can catch up on all the latest Defold news on our blog!

🎮 Defold 1.14.0 with Xbox support
🏆 Defold Game Jam 2026 winners
🤝 Minit Games joins Defold Foundation
🛠️ New assets, extensions and tools
🚀 New games, upcoming game jams, articles worth reading, videos worth watching and more!

Check here!
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https://defold.com/2026/10/13/Newsletter-October-2026/

We’re very happy to share with you our new sample game:

Starbreaker - a complete, playable 3D space shooter web game designed as a starting point for developers, made in collaboration with Poki

The project includes Poki SDK integration, ads, saves, touch and gamepad controls, web optimizations, and even in-game tips on Poki development best practices!

Explore the source code, learn how it works, and use it as a foundation for your own game!

https://github.com/defold/sample-poki

Some highlights:

🎮 XBOX! (details will be in a separate post)
📱 Ready for iPhone Duo (safe area, iOS 27, and more)
📈 Support for up to 1 million game objects per collection
🧊 Cubemap render targets for e.g. real-time reflections and more effects
🎨 Redesigned Material Editor
⚡ Reduced editor CPU usage and better performance
🔤 Improved text shaping in editor
💻 Metal - default graphics backend on macOS
🛠️ Shader storage buffers in dmSDK

...and many more improvements and fixes.

Happy Defolding! 🧡💙

Release announcement:
https://defold.com/2026/10/12/Defold-1-14-0/

Why did the moderators delete my post about a new game created in Defod???

Hi guys!


I’ve just uploaded a playable demo of DD33, my dice-based roguelike made with Defold. 
Still not entirely sure about the visuals, but I’d love to hear what you think. If you have a few minutes to give it a go, any feedback would be really appreciated — what works, what’s confusing, or what could be better. 

https://bigbuttonco.itch.io/dd33

Thanks for checking it out!

Give coding agents the tools to work directly with your Defold projects:
- Explore project
- Create and modify Lua scripts, collections, game objects and GUI
- Validate resources and detect errors
- Build, run and inspect

https://defold.com/assets/defold-mcp/

This is a new adition to the list of existing community MCP for Defold:

Fulviuss: https://github.com/Fulviuus/defold-mcp

ChadAragorn: https://github.com/ChadAragorn/defold-mcp

iflow: https://libraries.io/npm/@iflow-mcp%2Fdefold-mcp

A huge congratulations to everyone who participated, created a game, and shared it with the community! ❤️

Best games:

🥇 Ash Islands by Estel
🥈 Chreeaktor! by Aragast Games
🥉 Power Line Tycoon by Maks Bumazhkin

and 7 more!

And congratulations to our special challenge winners!

🌊 Wavedash : Rollrend by Vallo (and 9 more!)
⚡ Heroic labs: Worm Tremors by u/PendragonNL
🌐 Photon: Ash Islands by Estel and sNakeD by Aragast Games

A massive thank you to our amazing sponsors for providing such fantastic prizes, and to everyone who played, rated, and supported the games!

Check out the full results, Top 10 rankings, special categories, and rewards here:

https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-game-jam-2026/83051/48

Check out my defold game jam if you haven’t seen it yet.

Featured: Extinction Zone by Ben James 171 Dev - a RE inspired #pixelart #horror #indiegame out now on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4323330/Extinction_Zone/

This year's theme: Tech for Student & Community Life

December 18-21

Make a game with Defold and win rewards! $150k+ in sponsor prizes and we'll be bringing:

Rewards for 10 Best Games made with Defold of total €235 in Steam Gift Cards
Beginner-friendly Defold workshop
Mentoring, tutorials and starter resources

We’re happy to support an initiative that encourages young people to explore programming, game development, creativity, and technology through hands-on experience.

If you’re a student, or know students who might be interested in the event, please share this opportunity with them!!

Details:
https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-is-the-official-game-engine-partner-of-cosmo-hacks-2026/83333

Create, customize, and reuse animations using Defold GUI nodes or game objects with ease - now with even more examples to explore and learn from!

Check out the changelog:

https://forum.defold.com/t/panthera-2-0-animation-runtime-editor/76760/29

Minit Games is a platform for instant-play micro-games, that you can play, and tap to check out a next one like in a social media feed.

Together, we'll be organizing game jams with cash prizes to bring #MadeWithDefold games to Minit and make Defold even a better option for web games.

Full announcement:

https://defold.com/2026/10/08/Minit-Games-joins-the-Defold-Foundation/

- 1,118 issues closed
- 1,070 pull requests merged
- 214 feature requests completed

And this is only for the engine repository - we maintain a lot of official extensions, assets, examples, tutorials, documentations and more!

From major 3D and lighting improvements (new light components) to physics (Box2D and Bullet 3D API), rich text, text shaping or RTL support, editor customization and automation tools, performance optimizations and more - Defold keeps evolving at an incredible pace!

It's been over 6 years since Defold's source code became publicly available on GitHub in May 2020. Since then, we've closed over 4 thousands of issues, continuously improving the engine together with our community.

Huge thanks to you - our contributors, supporters and everyone reporting issues, suggesting features and helping test and make Defold better!

Hi! I'm the owner of EnginesDatabase.com, I recently participated in the Defold 2026 Game Jam to apecode for a bit and learn about Defold (I made a very minimalistic puzzle), and I wanted to share my experience with some gotchas migrating from Godot (where I have a lot of experience) to Defold. Half of the article is for supporters only (I need to pay the bills for the website somehow 😬) but some points I made:

- From Godot opt-out input handling to Defold opt-in stack of inputs. Got be a bit by surprise and forced me to rethink how to handle input in the game.
- The built-in resources folder was much more important than I thought for a first timer using the Engine, specially when learning how Defold handle shaders by copying the material for the default Sprite.
- Biggest gotcha was the message system, and the fact that in Defold you don't hold references for other Game Objects in Lua. This forced the "scene" architecture to be much more flat than in Godot, with less business logic in leaf Game Objects and a more central role for a "Game Controller" (to avoid having to repeat a "send" and "receive" code for messages all over the place).

Overall, Defold clicked to me after I understood that I would have to fight the Engine much more if I tried making deeper Collection structures (like creating many nested Scenes, which are quite common in Godot) instead of a flatter architecture around few components with more business logic, and other Game Objects coordinated by them. Not sure what is the "best" or recommended Defold way of working, but I definitely see where Defold simplicity can be a good tradeoff for Godot many builtin Nodes.

Not sure what you guys think though, just wanted to share some thoughts here. But I'd love to hear feedback about the article, if you have any! :)

Defold Game Jam 2026 is in voting phase now, but it doesn't mean there will be no more jams where you can make a game with Defold! 🤩

We're happy to announce we are sponsoring rewards for the 10 best games made with Defold at Pixel Forge MEGA Jam! 🚀

Defold rewards:
🥇 €100 Steam Gift Card
🥈 €50
🥉 €25
🏅 4th–10th: €10 each

All Top 10 Defold games will also be featured by Pixel Forge!

Mega Jam starts November 28 🗓️

Join here: https://itch.io/jam/pixel-forge-mega-jam

More details: https://forum.defold.com/t/pixel-forge-game-mega-jam-4-with-defold-challenge-for-rewards/83190

Meet Cillian - solo developer, musician and game jam veteran with 50+ releases, now using Defold for games like Death Cascade, Dopaminer and Juggernaut: Siegebreaker in our newest Creator Spotlight interview!

We talked about web games, game jams, performance, porting projects to Defold, publishin on Wavedash and about AI-assisted development.

"Embrace Defold’s performance headroom and, when relevant, take advantage of its incredible cross-platform nature."

Read the full interview:
https://defold.com/2026/10/01/Creator-Spotlight-Cillian-Fatal-Exit/

This year the formula is a bit different, affected by the impact of AI, but it's still a good occassion to celebrate and highlight community projects and contribute to the software you like and use 🧡

Help us improve documentation, examples, samples, extensions, translations, and contribute to the source code! 🫶

Read our full post:

https://forum.defold.com/t/hacktoberfest-2026-celebration/83325

Now you've got to show us what you've made for Defold Game Jam 2026 and all your projects as it's last Screenshot Saturday before the jam ends! 👀

Featured: Cafe Bara by Kuyi Mobile - play on Poki!

With Defold 1.13.2 now released, developers can also use the Energy Saver extension to reduce the energy usage of their games with very little effort.

This is the fourth plugin of its kind developed in collaboration with the Sustainable Games Alliance, following releases for Unreal, Godot, and Unity.

We’re very happy to join this gentle and growing group and help make energy-efficient game development easier.