# defold/defold

> Defold is a free, source-available game engine for building desktop, console, mobile and web games, including the editor and command line tools. The repository contains the engine source, editor, Bob build tool and build scripts.

- Magnitude: 1.2 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 6,429 total · +0 stars measured 2026-10-29, 10:43–13:07 UTC, ≈ 2 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Games & graphics · Language: C++ · Created: 2012-05-13 · Last push: 2026-10-29
- GitHub: https://github.com/defold/defold · Homepage: https://www.defold.com · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/defold/defold

## Useful for

- Build the Defold engine and command line tools from source for a custom platform
- Extend or patch the editor and engine code for a specific game project
- Set up CI to compile and release a custom Defold build

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-29 (UTC), 10:43–13:07: 6429 → 6429 stars (+0). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +2 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- GitHub Trending C++ today: #11, +8 stars.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 467
- Issues and pull requests: 13,440
- Watchers: 61
- Average over the last week: 3 per day
- Usual pace: 4 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: 1.14.2-alpha (2026-10-27)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-30 … 2026-10-29: 4, 1, 3, 1, 3, 0, 3, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2, 3, 13, 10, 4, 8, 2, 5, 5, 3, 5, 1, 2, 3, 1, 3, 3, 10, 0

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending C++ today: #11, +8 stars

## Similar by description

1. **godotengine/godot** — 2.9 · Steady · Games & graphics · C++ · +23 stars measured 2026-10-29, 00:05–13:00 UTC, ≈ 48 by evening
   Cross-platform open-source game engine for creating 2D and 3D games from a unified interface. Games can be exported with one click to desktop, mobile, web platforms and consoles.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/godotengine/godot.md

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-29 13:11 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.