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Amsterdam Memory Game

Jaap Murre


Memory Game Demo

Amsterdam Edition, Psychonomics 2018

Variant on the well-known game. Click two cards with the left mouse button. If they are the same, they are taken out of the game. You win if all pairs have been found. A variant is to play the game with triplets instead of pairs. Or even higher tuplets.

Though this is a minimal implementation, it is fully functional and works on phones and tables too.

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var cards = [], blocks = [], rows = 3, cols = 4,
    i, r, k, b, id, waiting = false,
    symbols = [], first = null, trials = 0, success = 0,
    message = main.addblock(20,2,70,10).text("0 trials")
                  .style("font-size","1.1em"),
    imb = main.addblock(1,'top',20,20) // Show QR code
              .setimage("https://scripting.neurotask.com/images/cache/a1c1a1ba8959bea43167f5206d71b5a2.png"),
    icons = [ 'noun_100341_cc.png', 'noun_100339_cc.png', 'noun_455410_cc.png',
        'noun_545027_cc.png', 'noun_858487_cc.png', 'noun_930663_cc.png', 'noun_510843_cc.png' ];

main.addblock(22,12,70,10,'',"<i>Psychonomics 2018, Amsterdam</i>")
    .style("font-size","0.8em");
                  
for (i = 1; i <= rows*cols/2; i++) {
    symbols.push(icons[i]); symbols.push(icons[i]); // Push two of the same
}
symbols = shuffle(symbols); // Shuffle the memory cards

function onClick(_b) {
    return function() {
        if (waiting) {
            return;
        }
        var b = _b;
        if (first) {
            waiting = true;
            if (first.id === b.id) {
                // This is currently the only way to 'unhide' hidden images
                b.showimagenode(b.getimagenode(b.id)).style("background-color","lightblue");
                await(1000);
                first.hideimage().style("background-color","silver");
                b.hideimage().style("background-color","silver");
                first.handler.remove();
                b.handler.remove();
                success += 2;
                if (success === rows*cols) {
                    message.text("Finished in " + (++trials)  + " trials!");
                } else {
                    message.text("" + (++trials) + " trial" + (trials === 1?"":"s"));
                }
            }
            else {
                b.showimagenode(b.getimagenode(b.id)).style("background-color","lightblue");
                await(2000);
                b.hideimage().style("background-color","steelblue");
                first.hideimage().style("background-color","steelblue");
                message.text("" + (++trials) + " trial" + (trials === 1?"":"s"));
            }
            first = null;
        }
        else {
            first = b;
            b.showimage(b.id).style("background-color","lightblue");
        }
        waiting = false;
    }
}

for (c = 0; c < cols; c++) {
    for (r = 0; r < rows; r++) {
        id = symbols[c*rows+r];
        b = main.addblock(c*(100/cols)+1,21+r*(80/rows),
                          90/cols,75/rows,"steelblue").style("font-size","2em");
        b.id = id;
        b.handler = b.on("click",onClick(b));
        b.preload(id); // Preload images here
    }
}
addblock(84,2,15,10,"lightgrey","Quit").await('click');
var x = addblock('center','center',100,100,"Preloading images");
image.await("preloading_completed"); // Wait until all images have been loaded
main.remove(x);

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noun_100341_cc.png

noun_455410_cc.png

noun_510843_cc.png

noun_545027_cc.png

noun_858487_cc.png

noun_930663_cc.png
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