Credits & licences

Copyright

Mediocre Life Story © 2026. Copyright belongs to the owners of Mediocre Life Story. All rights reserved. The game's name, logo, icon set, artwork, text, design and code are original works, except for the third-party components below, which remain the property of their owners and are used under their licences.

Data

The game's world database draws on 3,298 sources. Each one is cited with its title, publisher, link, year, date accessed and licence in the full bibliography:

Download the full bibliography (CSV, 0.9 MB)

Main data providers include the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (World Population Prospects); the World Bank (World Development Indicators); the World Health Organization; the Human Mortality Database; UNICEF; UNHCR; the International Labour Organization; UNESCO; the OECD; Our World in Data; the Uppsala Conflict Data Program; V-Dem; the World Inequality Database; Gallup; Freedom House; Reporters Without Borders; the International Organization for Migration; and hundreds of peer-reviewed studies. Casualty figures for many conflicts are compiled from Wikipedia's casualty tables, with the underlying sources named for each row.

The data is used, and where needed adapted (combined, interpolated and modelled), under the licences of each source, for example:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0): World Bank data, Our World in Data and others. Licence.
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA 3.0/4.0): figures compiled from Wikipedia. Licence.
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO): World Health Organization data (Global Health Estimates, Global Health Observatory). Licence. This work is not endorsed by the WHO, and the WHO is not responsible for its content or accuracy.
United Nations terms of use for UN data, OECD terms for OECD data, and public domain works of the US government.
Facts and figures from copyrighted publications are cited, not reproduced.

None of these organisations endorse Mediocre Life Story. If you are a rights holder and something here should be credited differently, please contact highlyintellectualmind@gmail.com.

Software

Godot Engine

Mediocre Life Story is made with the Godot Engine, available under the following licence:

Copyright (c) 2014-present Godot Engine contributors.
Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Juan Linietsky, Ariel Manzur.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Godot includes third-party components under their own licences, listed in Godot's COPYRIGHT.txt, including:

Mbed TLS: Copyright The Mbed TLS Contributors (Apache License 2.0).
HarfBuzz, ICU, ThorVG and other libraries, under the licences listed in that file.

Fonts

Noto Sans and Noto Color Emoji © Google LLC, used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The game's own icon font (“Lifestory Glyphs”) is original artwork, compiled with Google's open-source nanoemoji tool.

Ads and purchases

The Godot AdMob plugin by Poing Studios, GodotApplePlugins by Miguel de Icaza, and the Godot Google Play Billing plugin, each under its own open-source licence (see each project).