Veggie Clock
No longer being sold – formerly available on Google Play, Amazon Appstore, Barnes & Noble NOOK Apps
Veggie Clock
The normal Veggie Clock screen
Timer
A ticking timer
Options Panel
The options button panel appears when you tap the gear icon.
More Options
Here’s where you set up sounds and other options.
Night Mode
Night mode fades in when the user taps the sun/moon icon.
Alarm
These veggies dance around the screen when the alarm goes off. (Dragging them causes them to fall and scream a cute scream.)
Christmas Mode
Christmas decorations are only available in late November and December.
Halloween mode
Halloween decorations are only available in October.
Help
Extensive help for the various settings. This is also where “tell a friend” and customer messages live.
Veggie Clock was an interactive, animated clock, alarm and timer app. A variety of vegetables move to form the time, react to user’s taps and drags, and sometimes even move on their own. They make fun sounds when tapped and there is a veggie song available in the alarm sounds that accompanies a lively animation when the alarm goes off. Veggie clock also included a visual “wedge” timer that’s great for kids’ tasks. It had extras like night mode, Halloween and Christmas decorations.
Key Challenges and Learnings:
- I spent way too much time debugging the animation engine. In future projects, I used existing engines like Cocos2D, Sprite Kit, and ultimately the Unity game engine which gave my multiple platforms from a single project.
- I learned that apps need to stay in their categories. I joked that Veggie Clock was a “jackelope,” a mythical midwestern combination of jackrabbit and antelope. People looking for a clock weren’t looking for an interactive toy. People looking for a novelty app didn’t want it to be a clock.
