Classic Concentration

Before this project, there were many personal projects that ended up in a graveyard of half-baked ideas and "I don't have the time or energy to make a game on my own" excuses. But in November (of 2024), I was in need of ideas for Christmas gifts for my family. That's when I got a wonderful, awful idea! "I know just what to do!" The Grinch laughed in his throat. I decided to try to do a game jam of sorts and make a phone game for each of my immediate family members!

Now my sister isn't much of a gamer (no one in my family is, really), but there is one game that I knew she had nostalgia for: Classic Concentration on DOS! It's a simple enough game so I decided to leverage Apache Cordova, which I learned for Hime's Quest, and remake the game in mobile form in no time flat (spoiler: it was harder than I thought and ran out of time).

The nice thing about Apache Cordova is that I can (for the most part) write once and the game will work on iOS, Android, and Web! So below you'll find the game embedded! However, due to my target audience, my sister, this build really only focused on iOS, so there may be a few unaddressed bugs. For example, FireFox does NOT like my sprites as-is, but they appear just fine in Chrome. If you would like to play the game as an iOS or Android app, feel free to send me an email using the form at the bottom of the site, and I will provide an invite code for the respective platforms. Due to the fact that I do not own the IP of this game, I cannot publish these apps to their respective stores, but you can be a "tester"! Click here to open up the game in a new tab if the embed below does not work, or are on mobile.

If you are curious about how my version compares to the original, check out this video of the original game!

Currently I am working on adding the Bonus Round, High Scores, the ability to save contestants, and of course adding more puzzles to solve! So stay tuned for the v1.0.2 release!