As most of you probably know the Defold game engine is owned by the Defold Foundation, an independent software foundation based in Sweden. We have operated as a foundation since our split from King in 2020. The only reason we are still around three years later and keep on releasing new versions of Defold every four weeks, is thanks to the kind community donations from independent developers and our corporate partnerships with companies such as Heroic Labs, Rive and Melsoft Games.
Without the support of these partners and independent developers there would no longer be a Defold game engine. Thank you!
The funding we receive from corporate partnerships pay the majority of the salaries of the team working on Defold, while the community donations pay for the operating cost of the build servers that are available for free 24/7 and used when the editor and command line tools build custom versions of the Defold engine with the native extensions you add as a dependencies to your projects.
If you enjoy using the Defold game engine we invite you to sponsor us on GitHub. Perhaps you used to sponsor us in the past, but decided to stop donating? If that is the case we kindly ask you to reconsider and perhaps join again at a lower sponsorship tier.
PS We have also received word on Discord that some users have had their GitHub sponsor subscriptions randomly cancelled. If you are sponsoring Defold we ask you to check your sponsorship status. Perhaps it was cancelled by accident?