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Defold is a 2D game engine from Midasplayer Technology AB, an affiliate to King.com Ltd. It is currently in beta stage.
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Pro Message Passing system
There is something in the Defold engine which tends the people to their own. It is the message pass system. That feature is probably not in any other game engine yet. It will be useful even if you are a beginner or a hero in the game industry.
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Defold
6 years ago
This is NOT a 2D game engine. It is a 3D game engine dressed up to look like a 2D game engine. Doing something as simple as determining if a sprite was clicked/touched is next to impossible without doing vector math to go from screen to world coordinates. This should be automatic in a 2D engine - instead you...
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Lack of basic features on coreCon
Too complex for 2D and not enough features for 3DDefold
Recommended 6 years ago
Rapid Development but with lack of features
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Small build sizePro
Easy to learnPro
Cross platformPro
CollaborativePro
Easy and fast export for various platformsPro
Visual editorPro
Great performancePro
Fast resultsCon
Lack of basic features on coreCon
Don't run on Linux with AMD GPUDefold
Recommended 4 years ago
Free, easy to grasp and high quality engine. Very well organised and neat editor. Fast and reliable game engine (3D, but suited mainly for 2D). Updated every month without breaking the legacy. Very fast prototyping (hot reload + testing directly on mobile), well written documentation.
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Small build sizePro
Hot reloadPro
Good combination of visual editing + code (Lua)Pro
Easy to learnPro
Cross platformPro
CollaborativePro
FreePro
Easy and fast export for various platformsPro
Visual editorPro
Great performancePro
Fast resultsCon
Lack of basic features on corePro
Lua scriptingPro
Very performantPro
Great communityDefold
Recommended 4 years ago
This is really a great software if you will hope to make more popular mobile games. And the Defold community is great and they always help their users. They do not omit their users... Download the Defold engine and make something awesome... :happy
Pro
Small build sizePro
Hot reloadPro
Good combination of visual editing + code (Lua)Pro
Easy to learnPro
Cross platformPro
CollaborativePro
FreePro
Easy and fast export for various platformsPro
Visual editorPro
Great performancePro
Fast resultsPro
Lua scriptingPro
Very performantPro
Great communityPro
Source code availablePro
Message Passing systemCon
A bit difficult in 2DDefold
Recommended 8 months ago
Pro
Small build sizePro
Hot reloadPro
Good combination of visual editing + code (Lua)Pro
Easy to learnPro
Cross platformPro
CollaborativePro
FreePro
Easy and fast export for various platformsPro
Visual editorPro
Great performancePro
Fast resultsPro
Lua scriptingPro
Very performantPro
Great communityPro
Source code availablePro
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Con No advertisement support
Currently you cannot put advertisements in games developed with Defold, meaning free games cannot profit efficiently from it.