GDevelop Is Now a Digital Public Good!

Our certificate, verifying that we're a digital public good.

We have some news we're excited to share: GDevelop has been recognized as a Digital Public Good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA), a multi-stakeholder initiative endorsed by the United Nations Secretary-General. You can check out our verified profile here:

If you're not familiar with the term, a digital public good is open source software, open data, or open content that respects privacy, does no harm, and helps advance the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. To earn that recognition, a project has to pass a full review against the DPG Standard, covering everything from licensing to platform independence to how it handles user data.

GDevelop has always been free and open source, so in some ways this is just an outside confirmation of what our community already knew. But it matters, and here's why.

What this means for schools and NGOs

A huge part of the GDevelop community is made up of teachers, students, and nonprofits, and we built GDevelop for Education specifically with them in mind. Being listed on the DPG Registry gives schools and NGOs something concrete: a way to check that a tool they're bringing into a classroom or a community program has actually been vetted, rather than just taking a company's word for it.

That matters most on the privacy side. GDevelop doesn't track your students, doesn't sell data, and doesn't need an account or an internet connection to build a game. For a school district weighing new software, or an NGO running a digital literacy program in a place with limited infrastructure, that's not a small detail. It's often the deciding factor.

Being a DPG also opens doors we couldn't open on our own. Governments, UN agencies, and NGOs use the DPG Registry to find tools worth investing in or building programs around. It's how projects like Moodle and X-Road found their way into public sector projects across the world. We'd love for GDevelop to end up in more classrooms and youth programs the same way.

Why it matters for everyone else

For our broader community, the practical experience of using GDevelop doesn't change today. What changes is the signal. When you tell a colleague, a school administrator, or a funder that GDevelop is what you use to teach game design or build a game with your kids, you can now point to independent verification instead of just your own good experience with it.

It's also a nod to something we care about a lot: keeping GDevelop genuinely open. No paywalled core features, no lock-in, no surprise data collection. That's been true since Florian started the project, and it's part of why it's still true today.

Thank you

None of this happens without the people who use GDevelop, report bugs, translate the app, answer questions in Discord, and build the games and tutorials that bring new people in. This recognition is really about all of you as much as it's about the software itself.

If you want to read more about what digital public goods are and see the rest of the registry, head to digitalpublicgoods.net/registry. And if you're a teacher or an NGO curious about using GDevelop, reach out. We're happy to help you get started.