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+title: Twinkl partners with the Defold Foundation
+excerpt: Twinkl is supporting the Defold Foundation while using Defold to build WebGL educational games for desktop and mobile.
+author: The Defold Foundation
+tags: ["news", "partnership", "twinkl", "education", "games"]
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+STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - October 9, 2026 - The Defold Foundation today announced that Twinkl joins the foundation as a corporate gold partner. The Defold Foundation will work together with Twinkl to accelerate education through games and interactive content and develop Defold further.
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+![Twinkl supports the Defold Foundation](/images/posts/twinkl/twinkl_defold_partnership.webp)
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+_We are delighted to welcome the support of Twinkl, a global educational publisher helping educators bring learning to life with trusted resources, digital tools, apps, and interactive games built with Defold._
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+[Twinkl](https://www.twinkl.co.uk/) was founded in Sheffield in 2010 with a simple mission: to help those who teach. Today, Twinkl materials created and checked by teachers support learning in classrooms and homes around the world. Its growing digital offering includes educational apps, web tools, and games designed to make learning engaging and accessible.
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+For the Defold Foundation, support from organisations such as Twinkl helps us continue developing and maintaining Defold, improving the editor and engine, supporting more platforms, expanding our documentation, and providing the tools and services that game developers rely on. We support efforts of Twinkl in the education domain wholeheartedly.
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+## Learning through playing
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+Games can turn practice into exploration, give learners immediate feedback, and make difficult concepts easier to approach. Twinkl already brings together curriculum expertise, thoughtful design, and interactive technology through its collection of [digital learning tools and educational games](https://www.twinkl.co.uk/digital).
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+Twinkl's support connects two communities that care deeply about making good tools accessible: educators who want to create meaningful learning experiences, and developers who need a dependable engine for bringing interactive ideas to life.
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+![Twinkl uses Defold for game development](/images/posts/twinkl/twinkl_games.webp)
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+Defold is well suited to this kind of work. Its small runtime, fast HTML5 loading, efficient development workflow, and support for web, mobile, and desktop platforms make it possible to create focused interactive experiences and deliver them across a wide range of devices.
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+## Supporting Defold's future
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+Twinkl is fully pivoting from another engine to Defold for all of their future educational web games. The games team is also rebuilding its game library from the ground up, with a focus on quality, performance, and reusable technology across a growing catalogue of educational games. For our community, this means that more focus will be put on onboarding developers coming from other game engines and new materials will be prepared thanks to this collaboration.
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+Defold is free to use, and the work of the Defold Foundation is made possible by the companies, organisations, and individuals who support its continued development. Twinkl's support helps us invest in the engine for the long term while keeping it accessible to professional studios, independent developers, educators, and students alike.
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+We are grateful to Twinkl for supporting Defold and our community. We look forward to seeing more developers use Defold to build playful, accessible, and inspiring learning experiences.
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+Learn more about [Twinkl and its story](https://www.twinkl.co.uk/about-us), or find out how your organisation can [support the Defold Foundation](/donate/).