Building a Gamified Productivity App with Godot 4

In this video I take a break from my long-time RPG project to build a very simple productivity app over the holiday! Follow along on this 2-week challenge as I drive up and down the east coast over Christmas, building my first ever productivity app with Godot along the way. Hope you enjoy!

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[landru]

Programmer : "Hmm; I need a way to be more productive with my development, which keeps getting sidetracked by stuff other than my main project ... I know! I'll develop a productivity app, as a side project!" 😆 (I say this in all good humor, from personal experience that is all too relevant! 🙂 And I can truly appreciate the genuine need to take project breaks, even from one's passion project!)

[TheAmazinRaven]

OMG this is literally so cute! I have a similar idea for a productivity app but you would be dressing up characters.

[ChrisPalivoid]

Thanks for both the video and the app! I came back to this today when struggling to stay focused, and it actually helped with focus AND take regularly stretches.

[ysirotenko]

I've been using Pomodoro technique for years and it improve my productivity and reduce stress. Your app is very great idea. I've been using it for all working day long and it's very good, much more better than plain linux pomodoro timer which I use

Hope you continue improving app and release new versions from time to time. I wrote down some features which would be great:

- Sync local time and app time to change landscape's times of day (morning sunrise, evening sunset etc.)
- Changing weather in environment
- Sound when time is over
- Interrupt main timer (for unexpected situations in real world)
- Linux version
- Background sounds
- Community (maybe network leader board)
- Gamification via achievements

[Aarimous]

Nice work! I’d be curious to see a follow up video about how this fit into your game dev practice. Cool to see Godot being used for non-game related projects. Cheers!

[nonlinearsound-]

Ben, you actually gave me some needed new direction and new ideas with this video. I am in the planning phase of a new indie project here where I want to create a Godot based gamified relax app that is based on audio playback. (I am an audio engineer besides working as a software engineer). I am also thinking about enabling the users to have the app open on their desktops as well as using it on mobile devices. I was thinking about doing everything in 3D as it opens the possibility to create amazing worlds that the player could explore and find his favorite relax places but watching your video actually changed my mind - presenting nicely drawn 2D worlds that you can move inside (inside a certain area) and that are animated using parallax scrolling could present a super interesting art style that is pleasing and could give me the advantage of creating more in less time or a much better quality in a certain time span.
Thanks a lot for this insight and for the inspiration :)

[jusatin]

Love the app!
I'd love to see the camp screen without the car though. Maybe have a tent there, or something more "relaxing" than the car. (Maybe that could be a level upgrade?) This is probably something that's part of the upcoming improvements, I'd think.

[mohamadbagheri]

Love it when i click on a game dev video and the guy starts explaning their life plans and vacation plans in detail. Exactly what i clicked for

[mewen]

Awesome project! Really admire the healthy balance of working in spare moments without letting it intrude on outside world stuff. Quite inspiring.

[crustydev]

This is awesome! I'm signing up for the imaginary wishlist if this ends up on the app store

[charlesmeidlinger]

Southwestern Virginian here! So cool to see some rep on this channel of all places haha. Love the vibe of your projects and your videos, keep it up!

[mr.peppermint]

Hey this is such a cool video! I had this idea in my brain a couple of months back about making a sailing pomodoro app, I never really did any programming before but seemed like a project to get started with. Im surprised there's a video like this already, but it shows how many good ideas there are! Idea never left the planning phase but I think i got the push i need to get started. Thank you! super cool video and loved the way you recorded your shots!

[rohithreddy]

You are just an inspiration man, the work you put in is great. I hope we meet some day in some event :)

[Mcuello]

This is amazing! Would be nice to also have a stats menu to see how much time was spent camping vs driving.
Also a way to stop the driving and some kind of way to punish the user when done, similar to how in Forest your tree dies

[maxmoser]

Just checked out the app. I really like it. I think adding the option of sounds would be awsome.

[bounzerus]

Possibly, as a small motivational booster for the player to really stick to his task and to stop him from being distracted by other apps on his phone, you could implement the following function:

if the player leaves the app several times while the car is driving, the car could suffer an engine failure that needs to be fixed. This then costs money, for which you normaly would be able to buy other vehicles.

I think this would be a fun way to keep the player engaged :)

[Zettabit]

Very cool little project. Would definitely like to see you come back to it in the future, but also looking forward to seeing more Dauphin development.

[BreezyDefrag]

One thing I got to thinking while you were talking about this cool app is maybe have the different landscapes be target locations. So you can tell your little camper, to go to the city (simple button function I believe) and then you can have the landscape parallax as before but then as the timer reaches a certain point you start to change the parallax to a sort of bumper parallax that shows the transition from one environment to another then when the vehicle makes it to the new campsite it is in the target location. Just an idea. This was super fun to watch. I thought about using GODOT to make simple applications but I never really knew if it was possible until I seen your video. So thank you for giving me this opportunity to see that process in action.

[narlock]

Very cool Ben! I've been watching your videos for a long time and I've personally been using pomodoro apps similar to this one. This one is really neat! Thanks for sharing this🦆😎

[MultiMillionaire-hbpi]

You don’t know what this video means to me thank you so much. I literally needed to make the exact same thing but in a different theme but found it hard to do on my own. This is a lifesaver. I’ll be your forever sub and fan