Godot as app maker! I love it.

jbskaggs

I am really falling in love with Godot as an application maker. I tend to write more utilitarian software with some game elements and - GODOT has found a nice niche in my heart.

I am a visual person so having a visual editor and as I am progressing the first time it took m,e two days to write a simple app. 2nd time I rewrote the same app from scratch in 6 hours. Im not too smart and Im old but for me this was a breakthru.

Couple of years ago I tried Godot and could not get it to work at all. It boggled me. But I tried it again last week following GDQuest tutorial and suddenly it clicked for me.

Megalomaniak

Well, I'm glad to hear it and welcome to the community! :)

cybereality

Great, I love it too! <3

richard-kain

I can understand your enthusiasm for this use of the engine. I started digging into Godot a little more deeply this week, and one thing I noticed is that its tools for quickly developing UI elements are actually pretty great. Being able to layout and wire up buttons quickly and easily with little to no fuss makes prototyping for GUI-heavy applications a lot smoother and less difficult.

godotDcoding

@jbskaggs said: I am really falling in love with Godot as an application maker. I tend to write more utilitarian software with some game elements and - GODOT has found a nice niche in my heart.

This sounds intriguing. What type of application did you write?

jbskaggs

@godotDcoding said:

@jbskaggs said: I am really falling in love with Godot as an application maker. I tend to write more utilitarian software with some game elements and - GODOT has found a nice niche in my heart.

This sounds intriguing. What type of application did you write?

I am writing an application for book writing. I wrote it years ago for Linux in Gambas, but rewriting in Godot has been really easy so far. Also using some card game mechanics for character design and plot design.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1O8WIayyYZwEyBb4KallfcD5mtUzH95bI

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1f5aWBWuJsa2JX1sd1N2Z5dBdCfKlxYos

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1o5U2rsVcWqmuto22gnhcbbhW4omVCjoR

godotDcoding

@jbskaggs said:

I am writing an application for book writing. I wrote it years ago for Linux in Gambas, but rewriting in Godot has been really easy so far. Also using some card game mechanics for character design and plot design.

Very cool. I did an index card simulator in PHP-GTK about 14 years ago called Corkboard. It's purpose was more or less the same, story planning.

I'll be curious to hear how you progress, hitting milestones, etc.