defold/defold
Defold
Defold ist eine plattformübergreifende Spiele-Engine und eine integrierte Entwicklungsumgebung (IDE) zur Erstellung von 2D- und 3D-Spielen für Desktop, Mobile und Web. Sie kombiniert eine IDE für Asset- und Szenenmanagement mit einem Multi-Plattform-Build-System und einer auf Lua basierenden Skriptumgebung.
Die Engine enthält eine spezialisierte Headless-Runtime für das Hosting von Spieleservern und die Durchführung automatisierter Tests ohne grafische Benutzeroberfläche. Sie unterstützt native Engine-Erweiterungen, die es ermöglichen, benutzerdefinierten Low-Level-Code in den Kern zu integrieren, um die Funktionalität über die Standard-Skriptschnittstelle hinaus zu erweitern.
Das Toolset deckt die Automatisierung von Spiele-Builds für den Vertrieb auf Plattformen wie Steam und dem Epic Games Store ab, neben Asset-Packaging und Projekt-Lokalisierungsmanagement. Die Entwicklungsfunktionen umfassen Echtzeit-Debugging mit Live-Zustandsaktualisierungen, Build-Größenanalyse und automatisierte Smoke-Tests.
Features
- Game Development Frameworks - Provides a high-performance framework for building and deploying games across desktop, mobile, and web platforms from one codebase.
- Cross-Platform Build Systems - Provides automated build configurations for compiling a single codebase across multiple operating systems and hardware architectures.
- Game Development IDEs - Ships an integrated editor for managing game assets, scene composition, and project configuration in one environment.
- Multi-Platform Export Tools - Provides utilities for packaging and exporting game projects to native mobile devices and web browsers.
- Native Engine Extensions - Supports native engine extensions that allow custom low-level C++ code to be integrated into the core engine functionality.
- Headless Servers - Implements dedicated game server instances that operate without a graphical interface for server-side logic and match management.
- Binary Cross-Compilation - Compiles source assets and scripts into native executable binaries for mobile, desktop, and web platforms.
- Lua Game - Uses an embedded Lua interpreter for runtime game logic scripting with support for hot-reloading.
- Live Configuration Updates - Updates code and assets in a running instance immediately without requiring a full application restart.
- Headless Execution Environments - Provides a mode for running the engine without a graphical interface for server-side logic and automated testing.
- Hot Code Reloading - Allows updating application logic and assets in a running environment without requiring a full process restart.
- Asset Packagers - Provides tools for bundling game textures and sounds into optimized portable archives to reduce disk footprint.
- Game Build Packaging - Bundles game assets and executables into platform-specific distributable files.
- Cross-Platform Game Compilation - Includes a toolchain for building native binaries across multiple platforms from a single source codebase.
- Game Asset Management - Implements systems for creating and tracking internal engine resources like textures and sounds within a resource manager.
- Game Build Automation - Provides automated compilation and upload processes for distributing game binaries to platforms like Steam and the Epic Games Store.
- Real-time State Debugging - Enables inspecting and modifying game object properties and state in real time during live execution via an interactive console.
- Native Engine Extensions - Enables the integration of low-level C++ code to provide specialized functionality beyond the Lua scripting interface.
- Headless Runtimes - Includes a specialized runtime mode that executes engine logic without a graphical interface for servers and testing.
- Smoke Testing - Verifies software stability by executing key event sequences while monitoring logs and capturing screenshots.
- Game Development Engines - Free engine for developing desktop, mobile, and web games.
- Game Engines - Open-source engine optimized for cross-platform 2D game development.
