A little project maker for the Defold series. Lay out a 2D scene on a grid, tick the Lua scripts you want, read a broken console log and choose the fix, then download a real Defold project you can open in the free Defold editor on any computer.
game.project, a collection and your Lua scripts. Your work saves automatically.Pick an object below, then click squares on the grid to place it. Put the Player where you start and a Goal at the end. Click a square again, or use the eraser, to remove it.
Each object becomes a game object in your Defold collection. The mini map below is a bird's eye view of where they sit in the game.
A script is Lua that Defold runs for you. Tick the ones you want and the Studio writes the code. Start with Player move so you can move, and Coin spin so collecting looks alive.
Each ticked script becomes a .script (Lua) file in your project's main folder.
This is the top of your game.project and your main/main.collection. Every object becomes a game object instance.
A Defold project opens cleanly if all of these are true. The Studio fills most of them in for you.
game.project tells Defold this folder is a project and which collection to run.
main.collection is your scene: game object instances with positions.
.go files are the game objects (a sprite plus a script).
.script files are the Lua Defold runs, attached to a game object.
Open it: Defold > File > Open Project > pick game.project, then press Build & Run.
Click the red line, then choose the fix. Plain lines are normal.
This bundles everything into a zip: game.project, main/main.collection, a .go and .script for each object, plus the sprite atlas. Open Defold, choose File > Open Project, and pick game.project.