# Community Challenge #4: Tiny Worlds 🏡 **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Created:** [November 11, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/community-challenge-4-tiny-worlds/81931 "2025-11-11T14:00:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Pawel](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/pawel/32/24623_2.png) [@Pawel](https://forum.defold.com/u/Pawel)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/community-challenge-4-tiny-worlds/81931/1 "2025-11-11T14:00:05Z")
Hi! It’s high time to have another Defold Community Challenge! This time we encourage you to build ‘Tiny Worlds’ in Defold! 🥳 ![Defold_Community_Challenge_Tiny_Worlds](https://forum-defold-uploads.b-cdn.net/original/3X/6/5/65eb5f8daa6930815f48307efb8699ff01188ec7.jpeg) * * * # 🎯 Goal Create a small, decorated scene, a complete miniature world that can fit entirely on one screen. Be it a stylized diorama, a small world, a tiny planet, a section of an area, a small ecosystem, a dark dungeon, a green garden, a leafy forest, a single room or a house, a floating island or any other scene, so it feels like a living bit of a world! 🌍 ✅ It can be in 2D, side-view, top-down, isometric or 3D in perspective or orthographic. ☑ It doesn’t necessarily need to have any logic, controller, character, camera movement etc. 🎶 We encourage you to add some music, sounds, particles (maybe leaves, snow, dust, etc.), animations, custom lighting and shadows or other types of “fluff” to make it look better and vivid. It can tell a story through world-building. ### 📔 Learning Goals: - Practice worldbuilding and composition on a limited scale. - Experiment with animation, lighting, particles, and sound. - Learn how Defold can help you create beautiful scenes. - Create and share open source projects with community. * * * # ⏱ Time 20 days Start: 2025-11-11T14:00:00Z Finish: 2025-12-01T14:00:00Z (with a grace period if needed for late entries) * * * # 🧩 Rules 1. Meet Goal description. 2. Built and running in Defold. 3. You can use any code or art assets you have a legal right to use. 4. Submit a public GitHub/GitLab repo with a short description and a picture/GIF/video/build. 5. Work solo or in a team. * * * # 🏆 Awards Want to play some new game? Let us bring gifts earlier! 🎅 Defold sponsors 4 awards for the Challenge - €25 Steam Gift Cards! In order to reward both experienced developers for their stunning work and newcomers or beginners who try their best, the Defold Team will select 4 winners, one in each category: | Category | Description | | --- | --- | | 🌟 Best Tiny World | Most advanced, charming, immersive, beautiful and original scene | | 🎨 Visual Storytelling | Strong atmosphere, vivid world-building, a story behind the scene | | 🌱 Rookie Award | Best first-time entry for ones who didn’t participate in the previous challenges | | 🎁 Lottery Winner | One participant will be selected randomly from all valid entries | We will announce and contact the winners in December! ☃ * * * # 💡 Get Inspired! ### Defold Projects: Defold Examples: [https://defold.com/examples/](https://defold.com/examples/) Defold Charming Kitchen by @selimanac: [https://selimanac.github.io/defold-daabbcc3d-example-charming-kitchen/](https://selimanac.github.io/defold-daabbcc3d-example-charming-kitchen/) SuperWEIRD Game Kit by Luden io: [https://ludenio.itch.io/superweird-game-kit](https://ludenio.itch.io/superweird-game-kit) Lights and Shadows and Fog of War examples by @dragosha: [https://forum.defold.com/t/light-and-shadows-example/71713](https://forum.defold.com/t/light-and-shadows-example/71713) Defold Scene 3D by @aglitchman: [https://forum.defold.com/t/scene3d-collection-of-assets-for-3d-gamedev/70352](https://forum.defold.com/t/scene3d-collection-of-assets-for-3d-gamedev/70352) Defold Illumination by @astrochili: [https://forum.defold.com/t/illumination-ready-to-use-forward-shading-lighting-for-3d-games/71465](https://forum.defold.com/t/illumination-ready-to-use-forward-shading-lighting-for-3d-games/71465) Defold Curved World by @ross.grams: [https://github.com/rgrams/defold-curved-world/](https://github.com/rgrams/defold-curved-world/) [https://github.com/rgrams/defold-light-and-shadows-curved/](https://github.com/rgrams/defold-light-and-shadows-curved/) ### Assets: Kay Lousberg 3D assets: [https://kaylousberg.itch.io/](https://kaylousberg.itch.io/) Isa Lousberg 3D assets: [https://www.isalousberg.com/game-assets/](https://www.isalousberg.com/game-assets/) Kenney 2D & 3D assets and sounds: [https://kenney.nl/](https://kenney.nl/) Dioramas on Sketchfab, e.g. Littlest Tokyo: [https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/littlest-tokyo-94b24a60dc1b48248de50bf087c0f042](https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/littlest-tokyo-94b24a60dc1b48248de50bf087c0f042) 2D & 3D assets by Devil’s Workshop: [https://devilsworkshop.itch.io/](https://devilsworkshop.itch.io/) 3D Modular assets and props by Fertile Soil Productions: [https://fertile-soil-productions.itch.io/](https://fertile-soil-productions.itch.io/) Low Poly 3D assets by Broken Vector: [https://brokenvector.itch.io/](https://brokenvector.itch.io/) Pixel Art, Isometric and 3D art by RGS\_Dev: [https://rgsdev.itch.io/](https://rgsdev.itch.io/) 2D Side and Top-down Pixel art by Szadi: [https://szadiart.itch.io/](https://szadiart.itch.io/) Free 2D and 3D assets by Craftpix: [https://craftpix.net/freebies/](https://craftpix.net/freebies/) ## Previous Community Challenges: [https://forum.defold.com/t/community-challenge-recreate-balatro-card-effects-in-defold/76854](https://forum.defold.com/t/community-challenge-recreate-balatro-card-effects-in-defold/76854) [https://forum.defold.com/t/community-challenge-explosions/77315](https://forum.defold.com/t/community-challenge-explosions/77315) [https://forum.defold.com/t/community-challenge-post-processing-effects/79178](https://forum.defold.com/t/community-challenge-post-processing-effects/79178) --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.defold.com/t/community-challenge-4-tiny-worlds/81931)._