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

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

Code completion for Defold API and dependencies

Demo (Defold API)...

1. Open a Defold project
2. You should see a prompt to initialize the extension

or

1. Press Ctrl+Shift+P (or Cmd+Shift+P) or go to View > Command Palette.
2. Select Defold Buddy: Initialize

Demo (project dependencies)...

Code completion for Defold URLs

Demo...

Note: read about the addressing if you are not familiar with the concept

Known issues

For now the suggestions are not refreshed automatically when you make any changes to your .go and .collection files. For now you need to re-index them manually by running a command.

1. Open a .script file, you should see suggestions after typing a ", or pushing Ctrl+Enter with cursor next to a ".
2. Run "Defold Buddy: Index game files for autocompletion" when you need to refresh the autocompletion

Asset Portal

Demo...

1. Press Ctrl+Shift+P (or Cmd+Shift+P) or go to View > Command Palette.
2. Select Defold Buddy: Asset Portal

Build (run) your game

Demo...

Note: requires Defold editor running in the background

Note: you can set a hotkey for this command as well as for any other command

Hot reloading

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

Demo...

Note: read about hot reloading in Defold

1. Open Defold editor
2. Run your game via the editor
3. Modify a .script file and save it, the modified file should be hot-reloaded

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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

Demo...

Generate manifest (reduce game bundle size)

Demo...

You can generate the app manifest from Defold editor:

Or from VSCode:

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.