Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderUnfortunately it bakes in analytics that feed data back to King, not even you. Basically they're getting you to do the dirty work of getting them more entries in their customer tracking databases without them having to even make another Whale Acquisition Saga. Also you're not in control of your own source code. It's stored on King's servers. I'm not trusting them with my shit.
Would be nice to see some examples of completed games on the site, even if they're just YouTube walk throughs.
A tech lead from King wrote a game in Defold and streamed on livecoding.tv: https://www.livecoding.tv/video/small-game-from-scratch-part...
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 286
- Total comments
- 200
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-11-15 | Defold - Win/Mac/Linux/Android/iOS game engine | undantag | 63 | 44 |
| 2015-11-21 | Defold: Free 2D Game Engine for Cross-Platform Publishing | colund | 1 | 2 |
| 2016-01-19 | Defold: A versatile and light-weight game engine from King game studios | lobo_tuerto | 3 | 0 |
| 2016-03-20 | Defold: Free 2D Game Engine for Cross-Platform Publishing | rockdiesel | 7 | 0 |
| 2016-03-21 | Defold: Free 2D Game Engine for Cross-Platform Publishing | rinesh | 4 | 0 |
| 2016-03-23 | King.com relases free cross-platform engine for 2D Games | doener | 1 | 0 |
| 2016-03-24 | Defold: 2D Game Engine by King.comFirst breakout · Best thread | winterismute | 135 | 87 |
| 2020-04-10 | Defold – The ultimate game engine for web and mobile | simonpure | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-05-13 | Cross-Platform Game Engine | nurettin | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-05-19 | King’s Defold game engine is now open source | sicher | 5 | 0 |
| 2023-09-13 | Defold: Open-source Lua game engine with console supportLatest 20+ point return | sylvinus | 64 | 67 |