Defold 1.13.0 Beta is here! 🚀

This is a big release and a spring cleanup where we remove a lot of deprecated stuff to keep the engine modern and lean and bring in new fascinating features and fixes focused on rendering, stronger 3D workflows - especially with morph targets, and also improved physics scripting, and better editor tooling.

Release Notes:
https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-13-0-beta/82850

Featured: https://galaxy.fun/

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I am pretty happy with how The Moon my Destination turned out. And very happy that this very first game design I made has finally become a real game!

Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4272040/The_Moon_my_Destination/

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A nice open-source release from the Defold community: Kabocha 🥕🧄🧅🥔🎃

It’s a charming Suika-like merge game where you combine matching vegetables to evolve them into bigger ones, and try not to let the bin overflow.

It is a great little project to play, study, and learn from.

Check it out and show some love to the creator 👇

https://forum.defold.com/t/kabocha-game-open-source-release/82849

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The 3D Third Person Playground sample for Defold is now updated and we’ve:

🎮 added gamepad support
🕹️ added new controls mode
👥 improved shadowmapping
📜 enhanced documentation
🎶 added audio

https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-3d-playground-sample/82132/14

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If you’re attending Game Access @gameaccessconf in Brno, Czech Republic, you might have a chance to meet Paweł @witchcrafter May 29-30, at BVV Hall P - come say hello! 👋🇨🇿

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We’re continuing work on the upcoming FPS sample game for #Defold, and we’ve added a blaster from @kenney complete with animations and sound effects 💥

We may not be the best at designing (or playing 😄) but we hope it'll give you a good starting point for making your own great games!

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A nice Defold project to check out: SpriteLoop

It brings native playback of .spla animation packages to Defold, with its a custom component for Defold, editor integration, Lua API, builders, and an example project to help you get started! 🤯

If you’re building animated characters, UI, effects, or other sprite-heavy content, this looks like a promising tool to keep an eye on 👀

Read more:

https://forum.defold.com/t/spriteloop-defold-extension-development-log/82835

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¿Conoces @defold ? Motor gratuito, sin royalties, mantenido por una fundación.

Proyectos web de ~1 MB. Exportación a móvil sin Xcode/Android Studio. Lua como lenguaje.

No es el más popular. Pero hay juegos con millones de descargas hechos con él.

👇 https://youtu.be/9sMLROMlqQs

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How does a small indie studio go from one release to building a sustainable rhythm around multiple commercial games?

In our new interview on the Defold Blog, Alex from 8BitSkull talks about Skull Horde, Steam launches, scope, demos, localization, console plans, Fates of Ort, Void Scrappers, Bore Blasters, and the studio strategy behind their games.

Well worth a read for anyone making games!

https://defold.com/2026/05/15/8BitSkull-Skull-Horde-Interview/

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In just a few days, the Defold team will be heading to Digital Dragons 2026 🐉

If you’re going too, come say hello! We’d love to meet you, chat about games, and talk with fellow game developers.

See you in Kraków!

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