Defold Tutorial #1 -- Installation and Overview

DEFOLD TUTORIAL #1 - INSTALLATION AND OVERVIEW

If you want to learn a great tool for building amazing games that will run on either iOS or Android tablets/phones, Mac or Windows Desktops or on the web using HTML – I'd really recommend that you take a serious look at using the Defold Game Engine.

Welcome to this series of introductory tutorials where I’ll be walking you through the essential building blocks needed to design and develop great games.

The series consists of seven components:

1. KICKOFF – This is the tutorial you’re now watching – where you’ll learn about how to install Defold on your desktop (Mac or Windows) as well as get oriented to the Defold Editor.

2. IMAGE PROCESSING – This session will provide instructions on how to load images to your Defold game project as well as how to position them within your game. Some basic animation techniques are also described.

3. DRAG & DROP – A walkthough is provided on how you can support a user selecting a specific game object and dragging it to a new location within your game.

4. MOVEMENT – This tutorial describes the procedures needed to move a Game Object using either a pre-defined path, or based on user inputs via mouse or touch.

5. PHYSICS – Leveraging Defold’s Physics Engine – this tutorial reviews the concept of a collision object, used to trigger when one game object touches another, effects of gravity and bounce features.

6. GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE – A detailed description is provided on how you can incorporate button animations within the GUI as well as text notifications to users.

7. LEVELS AND MESSAGING – The final tutorial in this introductory series provides an explanation on how to accommodate multiple game levels to support different scenes or game chapters – as well as how to exchange information between game components.

If you are excited about learning how to use the Defold Game Engine – I hope you find these tutorials helpful.

Getting feedback via the comment section below is really important to me – it provides a great means for improving the quality of these tutorials.

Thanks for taking the time to review this tutorial series.

All the best - David

[zellufdoen]

Hi David, Just found your channel. Unfortunate to see that you have stopped making video's. Hope this message finds you well during whatever you are doing right now.

[wovenhead]

So far your video tutorials are the best I've encountered for game development. You communicate very clearly, and both audio and video components of the presentation is very professional, *useful*, and succinct. Most importantly to me you're teaching *concepts* that develop the listener's *understanding* of how game development works--while still providing detailed and accurate instruction--this is really impressive to me. I look forward to finishing both your defold series.

[kanalarchis]

I like your pace and style. Great material. Thank you, I hope you are doing well, and will be happy to see more of your videos.

[Skikopl]

These Tutorials are AWESOME. I am gonna binge your entire Tutorial series tomorrow. I wanted a game engine to be as raw as possible, while still being easy to learn, and Defold seems to be exactly that. Thanks man!

[pescadorCardoso]

That was a great tutorial, thank you. It feels like you actually know what you're doing instead of many tutorial videos for other game engines mostly, where it seems the guy is just replicating another tutorial he saw somewhere lmao. Thanks again

[ombres_et_engrenages]

Hi David, I come from Unity and I'm considering learning the Defold engine. Thank you for this series of videos, I'm going to learn a lot of things :)

[degged]

Great video, thanks for making this! One of the best series on learning Defold engine

[lamarmarshall]

Thanks for these. I wish you would keep posting

[ludoviclotoah]

Starting to learn the Defold game engine. Your video is very clear and goes straight to the point. I am sure as the defold game engine gets more popular your vidoes are going to be useful to so many.

[richoddinott]

This looks like a great set of videos - thank you for making them. I've got a day off tomorrow so I'm going to work through them all and hopefully get an understanding of what Defold is all about.

[saraatppkdotpt]

I found your tutorials amazingly instructive and useful, would love to watch more! When are you coming back to posting more videos? Thank you so much!

[ABHISHEKSINGH-nvse]

Hi David... I loved your first Defold video and i m going see it all. Thanks for such explanatory video. 😃

[savbran]

Great video series, thanks a lot. I have a puzzle game in mind and I can't wait to finish at least the first tutorials covering the main things before starting to do some stuff.

[pleekh]

I am from the UK, why can't my son's teacher teach like you!? You are a good teacher.

[Warionator]

Also a random tid bit, Defold is also on Steam which in a gamers case is very convenient!

[degg]

Lets just appreciate how all of this is free!

[NeZversSounds]

That’s the thing Defoe’s needs. Thank you!

[Sczy_]

wow this is amazing anybody can understand his teaching!
its perfect!!!

[egonbraun]

Great instructor! Loved the first video x can't wait to start next one! Keep up with the lessons and bring more advanced topics 😊👍

[gluke]

Passion, love to share and very informative content. Please keep posting.