Official Youtube Playables Extension for Defold

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We’re happy to share a release of new official YouTube Playables SDK extension for Defold!

yt_playables_extension

The extension-playables provides Lua access to the YouTube Playables SDK and handles the integration needed between a Defold HTML5 game and the Playables environment.

The extension currently covers:

  • game lifecycle and readiness
  • cloud save/load data
  • pause and resume handling
  • YouTube audio settings
  • player language
  • sending scores
  • opening YouTube videos or other Playables
  • interstitial and rewarded ads
  • error and warning reporting
  • Playables environment and SDK version detection

It also includes an HTML5 engine template which loads the YouTube Playables SDK automatically, and can automatically keep Defold’s master audio state synchronized with YouTube’s audio, pause and resume events.

This should make it considerably easier to adapt a Defold web game for the YouTube Playables environment without implementing the JavaScript SDK bridge yourself.

Asset Portal:

Repository:

Manual with examples can be found here:

P.S. In the recent interview with Green Train Studio and Playgama we discussed Youtube Playables - you can read it here:

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did anyone published on it? curious

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Do you mean published on Youtube Playables? Check out the interview with Green Train Studio (linked just above) - they published their game made with Defold with Playgama there.

We’d also like to hear some more such stories, that’s why we made a standalone extension! :heart: We’ve tested the extension internally and we think it’s good enough to share it already :slight_smile:

EDIT:
Here’s next one, I just was informed was made with Defold (also with Playgama Bridge):

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Banana Kong was recently also released on YouTube Playables:

Note that none of the linked games used the extension in this post. It was just released and not made in collaboration with any of the games listed here. But please do tell us if you decide to use it!

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