I've been learning the Defold game engine (and teaching it as I go) and I have
to say that I mostly like it. Godot gets most of the "small game engine"
attention, but Defold seems to be a very worthy competitor. I really like the
built-in messaging system and it provides a TON of flexibility while presenting
a simple concept. My biggest issues with it so far are poor drag-and-drop
support for the editor, and overall the bare-bones nature of the editor in
general. The Lua code completion in the editor is really good, but Lua is a bit
of an opaque language and finding the correct API to use and teaching the
concepts has been quite difficult and time-consuming. Defold has a lot of
promise, but I feel like it presents a higher-than-usual learning barrier and
the messaging concepts can lead to some seriously tangled runtime headaches.
Again, I'm still learning Defold, but I expect to use it for some small 2D
projects in the future to compare and contrast it to UE5, Godot, and of course
my own game engine, Clockwork.
#gamedev #indiedev #defold
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