# New to defold

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**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [September 7, 2024, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/new-to-defold/78019 "2024-09-07T15:27:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![selimanac](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/selimanac/32/6397_2.png) [@selimanac](https://forum.defold.com/u/selimanac)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/new-to-defold/78019/2 "2024-09-07T15:34:49Z")

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Did you check out these?

> **[Defold manuals and other learning resources](https://defold.com/learn/)**
>
> Defold is a free and open game engine used for development of console, desktop, mobile and web games.

Also for Lua

> [@Big List of Lua Resources!](https://forum.defold.com/t/big-list-of-lua-resources/1586):
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> Post links and I may add to the main list. Admins feel free to edit directly to modify and add links. Learn Lua Defold uses Lua 5.1 [http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/](http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/)[Progamming in Lua](http://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html) (best Lua book - buy a physical copy of latest edition) [Learn Lua in a Single Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMacxZQMPXs) + [Related Cheat Sheet](http://www.newthinktank.com/2015/06/learn-lua-one-video/)[Official Lua Language Reference](http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/)[Learn X in Y Minutes Where X=Lua](https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/lua/)[Lua Short Reference](http://lua-users.org/files/wiki_insecure/users/thomasl/luarefv51.pdf)[A Functional Introduction to Lua](https://pragprog.com/magazines/2013-05/a-functional-introduction-to-lua)[Lua Users Wiki](http://lua-users.org/wiki/)[https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lua\_Programming](https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lua_Programming)[http://stackoverflow.com/q…](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/lua)

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