What it is
You run a one-ute lawn round. Take a job off the board, load the ute, then mow, whipper-snip and blow the yard. You’re paid the fee, a tip for being thorough, and a bit less for anything you hit.
The money buys better gear, from a push mower up to a zero-turn. The reputation opens up bigger jobs: backyards and front yards first, then the council nature strips, and eventually the footy and cricket ovals, where you’ll want to mind the wicket. When the round gets too big for one, hire a hand.
Where you mow
Pick your own suburb by name, postcode or location, and the jobs land on your real streets, ovals and parks, drawn from open map data. Or stay in Coolamon Bay, which is made up and needs no connection. You can also type one particular address and mow that yard: that’s Your street.
Why stripes
Real lawn stripes aren’t paint. Grass bent away from you looks light and grass bent towards you looks dark, so the stripes come from which way the mower went. The game lays every pass the same way, which means a tidy job looks tidy, in 3D or from straight above. At the end a before-and-after slider shows the yard as you found it and as you left it.
For everyone who drives
Driving assists can take the throttle, the steering, the blades or the cut height, one at a time or all four at once. Kids and casual players get the stripes too, and the pay is the same either way.
What’s made up
Coolamon Bay doesn’t exist, and neither do Kerbside, Gumtree Heights or Federation Drive. The gear makers (Redgum, Coolabah, Jarrah Iron and Kookaburra Tools) are invented too. There are no real brands, leagues, clubs or team colours in the game.
The real things are the maps: your suburb, and Your street, where the game builds a yard from open data and marks the parts it had to guess.
Your data
The game saves on your device. There’s no account, no ads and no in-app purchases. The app asks our server whether an update is available. Choosing your suburb or typing an address sends that to our server for the map lookup; it isn’t stored or logged. “Use my location” sends only a point rounded to about a kilometre. The privacy policy has the detail.
Open data
Your suburb and Your street use lot boundaries © NSW Spatial Services, © State of Victoria (Vicmap Property) and © State of Queensland, each under CC BY 4.0, building outlines © Overture Maps Foundation (Open Database Licence), and map data © OpenStreetMap contributors under the Open Database Licence.
Who makes it
Nature Strip is made by Harfred Labs. Questions, bugs and suggestions go to support@harfredlabs.com, and the support page covers the common ones.
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