[goodgoblin]

FWIW - I started a game on Defold and ended up rewriting and porting it to Unity. It's been a while since I used it - about a year - but Unity just has a lot more bells and whistles.

Defold uses message passing, which initially I was very excited about, but it turns out my brain is used to thinking about objects and references and I kind of struggled to do simple things in Defold which is part of the reason I switched to Unity.

One thing that did make it over in the port is a cool actor-based AI that I probably wouldn't have thought to use if I started the game in Unity.

Defold does give you a ton of control though and it would enable more customization than Unity, especially now that it is open source.

I should also say the Defold community is great and the devs behind the game engine are very helpful.

And this is my first game so any difficulties with Defold could be due to my initial learning curve.