Credits

The inspiration

Backyard Bloom is inspired by Green Thumb Cards, a card game for Windows published by Playful Minds in 1996. We loved it. Backyard Bloom plays by similar rules, but everything in it is new: the art, the texts, the music, the sound and the code. We are not connected to Playful Minds.

Art, sound and music

The card paintings, the flowers and creatures in the gardens, the start screen and the app icon were painted with image models by OpenAI from our own descriptions, then picked, cut out and packed by hand. The sound effects and the music were generated with ElevenLabs and edited to fit the game.

Languages

The game speaks English, Español, Português (Brasil), Português (Portugal), Français, Deutsch, Italiano, Nederlands, Polski, Türkçe, Русский, 日本語, 한국어, 简体中文, 繁體中文, Bahasa Indonesia, हिन्दी, العربية. The translations were made with the help of AI. If you find a sentence that sounds wrong in your language, please tell us at hello@backyardbloom.app. You will make the game better for everyone who shares your language.

Typeface

Headlines are set in Fraunces by Undercase Type, Phaedra Charles and Flavia Zimbardi, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Open-source software

The game and this website stand on open-source work. Thank you to the people behind:

• React and React Native (MIT License, Meta Platforms and contributors)
• Zustand (MIT License)
• React Native Reanimated, Gesture Handler, Worklets and Audio API (MIT License, Software Mansion)
• React Native SVG, Safe Area Context, MMKV, Nitro Modules and Bootsplash (MIT License)
• Motion (MIT License)
• Vite, Tailwind CSS and TypeScript (MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses)

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