Credits
Last updated November 10, 2026
Ordinary Life is made by actuallygoodapps. Its faces, pictures, songs and sound effects are drawn and written by the game's own code. It builds on the work below, used under each owner's license.
Research and data
- Monk Skin Tone Scale by Dr. Ellis Monk and Google, used for skin colors. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. skintone.google
- FairFace by Kimmo Kärkkäinen and Jungseock Joo (2021), used to set how often each hairstyle appears. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. No images from it are in the game.
- First names from Konstantinos Tzioumis, "Demographic aspects of first names" (2018), Harvard Dataverse, CC0.
- U.S. government data (public domain), including the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, HUD, the CDC and NCHS, the FBI, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the Department of Education and the Social Security Administration. The game names the source of each number where it shows it.
- Opportunity Atlas (Opportunity Insights), county outcomes for children.
- State flags from Wikimedia Commons: public domain, except Mississippi's (free for any use).
Sound
- GeneralUser GS SoundFont by S. Christian Collins: the instrument samples the music plays. Free for commercial use.
Fonts
- IBM Plex (IBM), JetBrains Mono (JetBrains) and Archivo (Omnibus-Type), under the SIL Open Font License.
Thanks
- Thanks to TuneFreak (tunefreak.com).
The full license texts ship with the game, in its assets/licenses folder.