Defold
Side scroller tutorial
Horizontal movement, jump, and hazards.

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- Engine
- Defold
- Language
- Lua
- Genre
- platformer
- License
- MIT
Who it is for
- Beginners
Clone and run
- Install the Defold editor.
- Open the project folder from Defold and press the play button.
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Editorial notes reviewed 2026-10-05.
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