Sublime Defold is a powerful Sublime Text plugin that helps you develop Defold games with Sublime Text.

Hot Reload: Reload on save or you can run the "Defold: Reload" command Snippets and Completions: Helpful code completion for common commands and patterns

You must have astrochili/defold-annotations setup in your Defold project if you want the types in the snippets to work correctly.

1. Open Sublime Text.
2. Go to Tools > Command Palette... (or press Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P).
3. Type Package Control: Install Package and press Enter.
4. Search for Defold and press Enter to install.

1. Navigate to your Sublime Text Packages directory. You can find this by going to Preferences > Browse Packages... in Sublime Text.
2. Run git clone https://github.com/james2doyle/sublime-defold Defold in that folder

# change to the directory found with "Preference: Browse Packages", then clone
git clone https://github.com/james2doyle/sublime-defold.git Defold

You can configure the defold_hot_reload on the project level to enable reloading on save.

In your .sublime-project file:

{
    // ... folders array with paths, etc.
    "settings": {
        "defold_hot_reload": true
        // ... the rest of your settings
    }
}

The plugin will check your .sublime-project so the project settings before trying to send a hot reload to the editor.

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1. Open Tools > Command Palette... (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P).
2. Type Defold to see available commands:

• Defold: Reload: Reload the running build.

You can set up custom key bindings for frequently used commands. Go to Preferences > Key Bindings and add entries like this:

[
    { "keys": ["ctrl+alt+g", "ctrl+alt+c"], "command": "defold_reload" }
]

• defold-reload-on-save.py: Main plugin entry point and core logic for sending hot reload commands.
• AGENTS.md: Helper for AI coding tools.
• pyproject.toml: Project configuration for dependency management and build tools.
• snippets/: Folder with all the Sublime snippets.