Matching Games

AS3 / PHP / MySQL

My Role: Concept, developer and designer for ThunderCats
My Time Spent: 2 days for Thundercats, 1 day for versioning for StarWars and Spliced

This is matching engine that I was asked to build for Teletoon. It's been used three times so far, for StarWars, ThunderCats and Spliced.

While matching games are generally simple games, I tried to add a few twists to make it a little more unique. Along with gradually increasing the difficulty by increasing the number of cards (without adding much more time), the cards start to move randomly in the middle of game play, and have colour filters applied to them to throw the player off. There is also a sneak preview at the beginning of each level, so the game is based more on memory than luck, as well as 3D animation and shadows.

Spliced version of matching game.

Spliced version of matching game.

Starwars version of matching game.

ThunderCats version of matching game.

Game starts of with cards being scattered onto the table.

The sneak preview at the beginning of each level makes the game based more on memory than luck.

Cards flipping in 3D.

The black and white cards, which are automatically generated by the game engine, makes it harder to match cards.

Adding a tint to the cards also makes the game more challenging.

Statistics that get displayed in between levels.

Instructions page.