Give Garden: Integrating Donations into a Game Using Pledge

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition What I Built When I read about the generosity theme, I immediately thought of integrating donations as a feature into an app or rather a game . But given the complexities of managing funds as well as the weekend time limit, I thought it was impossible. So then I researched platforms that could act as the middleman. One that would allow me to include and encourage donations without having the money go through me at all. That's when I found out about Pledge . The Pledge API is an API-first charitable giving platform designed specifically to let you embed global charity search and donation processing directly into your application without you having to hold, manage, or legally route the funds yourself. By acting as the intermediary through a donor-advised fund model (the Pledgeling Foundation), they handle the heavy compliance lifting—like verifying 501(c)(3) statuses, distributing money to nonprofits, and instantly automating tax-deductible receipts to the donors. Perfect! The Game The game is called Give Garden . It's a card game where you collect plants/trees as cards and strategically place them into your grid-like garden. You have cards with rarity ranging from common to legendary. Your placements of specific cards dictate how efficient your garden is at generating the game currency ( Blessings ). You water these plants to grow them and advance them to their next growth cycle up until the Fruit-Bearing stage. Then you harvest them and get the blessings. With these blessings you can buy Garden Decorations . These decorations help make your farm even more efficient. For example: The Geyser Fountain allows the two cards on either side of it to automatically be watered at a certain interval. You get free spins to have a chance at getting common cards. Each card has an associated type. And each type corresponds directly to a cause . For example: the Bear Bearer is a tree that bears literal bears as its frui