Commercialization of Defold developer tools

[britzl]

@Pkeod

This is a call to action for others not Defold team. If Defold team can address more of it that is great, but I see that it needs to be the community that gets involved more, and embraces making commercial tools so that the motivation is there. There are huge opportunities that Defold can enable. Defold is a good foundation to build on.

Ok, got it. Yes, I totally hope other will build tools for Defold. We’ve seen this happen to some extent already:

• Panthera - Defold animation tool, Panthera - Animation Software for Defold
• Texture Packer now has direct export to Defold .tpatlas files, thanks to work by Mathias (Defold) and Andreas Loew (CodeAndWeb).
• Tiled - Defold — Tiled 1.11.0 documentation
• Tilesetter - Exporting — Tilesetter documentation
• There’s most likely a few more I’ve forgotten

@Pkeod

Are the finances of the Defold Foundation public?

No. Hmm, or maybe. We file the annual financial report with the authorities so maybe you can get it from there. But in general, no we do not share it. The Defold foundation is financially stable based on current partnerships.

@Pkeod

How can we get it more money more directly? I don’t mean just giving it money, but creating systems that get it money consistently. An asset store would be able to do that, but you don’t have bandwidth to do it officially, so maybe if someone else builds one there can be an official partnership where Defold or whichever company you want gets a % of all sales in exchange for being official partner / listed on the site and so on.

The foundation would not object to such a solution.