Defold x Gamedev.js Jam 2026

selimanac · April 21, 2026, 10:42am

Lovely idea and it looks great. Also, the rhythm makes your mouse cursor bounce

orenjispark · April 21, 2026, 11:35am

The graphics look good and are very satisfying to watch

Pawel · April 21, 2026, 12:24pm

I’m building “Space Base Maintenance” (literally, I can’t find a better title ) - where you need to keep all the machines up and running and manage resources in order to maintain the longest mission of the crew gathering intel on an extraterrestial planet

3D assets by Kay Lousberg
Terrain Texture from FreeStylized
Druid, Lights and Shadows, camera orbiting and billboarding example used

Sam · April 21, 2026, 5:00pm

I will never finish this on time!
I have to draw the character, replace the sprites with the final ones when if I ever have time to make them, create the actual levels…

Аt least I have a tiny cringe monologue

MasterMind · April 21, 2026, 5:37pm

Love it!

Mathias · April 23, 2026, 5:37am

Hi everyone, I just wanted to share my halfbaked underdevelop game and I need help too!

So this is a video of my entry Promenade

For now it is not really playable, there will be a promenade phase and a fight phase with lasers, but I need to code it
So I am just in a hurry and dont think I will have time to finish this!

Anyway, for now my itch.io page is in a draft mode, I have questions if you can help:

can I put the page as published already and submit it in the gamejam entry, and afterwards update and change my game? Or should I wait till it is finished? First time on itch.io
my game works well on html via desktop browser, but on mobile it doesnt change layout in landscape when I rotate my phone… what are the settings to do so??
i have a bug on my character fliping (see at end of video), my dog is a collection made of multiple parts. I really dont know why it works then it does a half baked flip! But I will try to use negative scaling instead of sprite flip to see if it works(didnt have time)

I hope I will have time to complete the real game mechanics till saturday, even if I dont I will finish it afterwards

Mathias · April 23, 2026, 5:44am

I will add that I did ALL the contrary of the wise advices of @Pawel
Didnt have time to prepare anything upfront, had the idea of the game after the theme was given, made specific assets for it (still need to record music and sounds ) start almost from scratch…
But that’s a blast for me to try to finish on time, and I am still happy with it

JuLongZhiLu · April 23, 2026, 6:10am

I think you need to switch your mobile browser to landscape mode to solve this problem. Apparently, your mobile browser is currently in portrait mode.

By the way, your game looks quite unique.

Sam · April 23, 2026, 6:54am

There is an email from few days ago

“…submit your entry before the deadline on Sunday, April 26th, 5 PM CEST. Don’t leave that to the last moment as you can still edit your entry after submitting as long as you do it before the deadline.”

As far as I understand you can submit now and update it later but the update has to be before the deadline.

And btw… it’s against the rules to prepare in advance or reuse old games. JFYI

About the mobile issue. I think there was a setting under the project html where you can set it to fit the screen. When you go fullscreen it rotated to landscape automatically.

Pawel · April 23, 2026, 7:43am

True, yes, and it’s a good idea - making sure you can make a simple page for it on itch, upload your game and test it there, if you have a HTML5 build (you can test without publishing, so only you can see it), then publish and submit to the jam this page

Hydraware · April 23, 2026, 11:13am

Is there a specific license or credits text we need to put in our game?

Pawel · April 23, 2026, 12:19pm

You mean regarding Defold? No. But it would be nice to note “Made with Defold”

Regarding other used assets - if their license require you to name the author (e.g. CC-BY 4.0) you have to. If license doesn’t require it - it is still nice to put the author of the assets in credits. It can be on the itch page in the description:

Mathias_Westerdahl · April 23, 2026, 12:40pm

We have the list of licenses we use here, and explain what they’re used for:

github.com/defold/defold

COMPLYING_WITH_LICENSES.md

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# Complying with licenses

Defold is created and distributed under the developer-friendly Defold License. The Defold License is derived from the popular Apache 2.0 license. The license in its entirety can be [read here](/LICENSE.txt) with additional information to help you understand the [difference from the standard Apache 2.0 license here](https://defold.com/license/).

Defold itself contains software written by third parties. Some of the software is used in the Defold editor and command line tools ([learn more](/TOOLS_LICENSES.md)) and some of the software is used in the Defold engine. The software included in the Defold engine will be included in the games and applications created using Defold and require the inclusion of their respective license in derivative work.

**If you use Defold to create games and applications it is your responsibility to include the required licenses in your work.**


## How to include required licenses in your work

Some ways in which you can include required licenses in your work:

* Show the license and notice at the end of a credits screen if your application has one
* Show the license and notice from a dedicated license screen or popup in your application
* Print the license and notice to an output log when your application starts
* Put the license and notice in a text file and include it with the distribution of your application
* Put the license and notice in a printed manual included with your application

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benjames171 · April 23, 2026, 1:28pm

Parcel Master is my entry for the jam! Play it here:

The game is open source. GitHub repo:

JuLongZhiLu · April 23, 2026, 2:05pm

I just played your game

Awesome !

JuLongZhiLu · April 23, 2026, 2:53pm

Thank you! I never knew how to create game loading animations in Defold before, but after looking at your source code, I realized it uses gif

Mathias · April 23, 2026, 3:37pm

Really good entry! Clean graphics and UI, addictive mechanic but yet simple enough to code fast, bravo.

First jam but learning a lot just observing games of others! Thanks for the share

Hydraware · April 23, 2026, 3:59pm

Hey guys,

this is my entry for the gamedev.js jam. It’s a small stealth game, where evil robots (or machines) invaded your bedroom and try to catch you. There are several objects in the room you can grab in a specific area and put the enemies in the way. The light circle around the player and enemy indicates the sound_area. When it overlaps with an enemy, they are going to attack you.

I don’t know why my OBS won’t record sound… but here you can see a short video.

There are only 3 levels yet..

JuLongZhiLu · April 23, 2026, 4:36pm

it looks very interesting and quiet unique because I have never seen such game.

Hydraware · April 23, 2026, 4:52pm

I didnt see either a game like that. I started with a simple shooter and thought that was too boring. So I tried to make it interesting, but not too difficult (somehow my games go everytime in this direction )

I will see if people are interested to play that.