Defold is a completely free to use and source available game engine for development of console, desktop, mobile and web games.
Sep 18, 2023 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
Defold is often thought of as a 2D only game engine, but it is in fact a full 3D engine. If you found Defold thanks to recent Unity news, then we’ll try to provide a clear picture of what you can expect when working with 3D content in Defold. 🧵
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Defold is a 3D engine from the ground up. It always has been. At the moment we are not building high-level features, but work on the foundation for them and provide our users with the ability to build their own features and tooling.
Some thoughts on the open source discussions yesterday: There was no ill-intent on our part when said that Defold is open source. The source code is available on GitHub for anyone to play around with and hopefully contribute to. This is what we meant, nothing else. 1/9
Our license, derived from Apache 2.0, has an additional clause to prevent someone from selling Defold (engine+editor). We want our community to always be able to use the best possible version of Defold for free with no upfront fees, no royalties and no licensing costs. 2/9