Defold Buddy

Productivity tools for Defold to make your life easier and coding experience nicer.
You will have less reasons to alt-tab between VS Code and Defold Editor because you can run your game, hot reload changed files, fetch libraries from VS Code.

Features

• [x] Lua code completion for Defold API and dependencies
• [x] Teal code completion for Defold API
• [x] Code completion for Defold URLs
• [x] Asset Portal
• [x] Build (run) your game
• [x] Fetch libraries
• [x] Hot reloading
• [x] Open Defold Editor
• [x] Create a complex Game Object file from Explorer context menu
• [x] Generate manifest (reduce game bundle size) - also available in Defold Editor

Code completion for Defold API and dependencies

Code completion for Defold URLs

Asset Portal

Build (run) your game

Hot reloading

After .script, .gui_script or .lua files are saved they are automatically hot-reloaded if the game is running.

Create a complex Game Object file from Explorer context menu

Create a Game Object file (.go) with components (sprite, script) and a factory file (.factory) for that Game Object with less clicks

Generate manifest (reduce game bundle size)

Feedback

If you would like to collaborate, contribute or request a feature feel free to do it at Github

Credit

Manifest generation code was copy pasted from Defold App Manifest generator by britzl.

Resources

Annotations used in this extensions are generated with Defold Lua Annotations.