Spectral Match - A Spooky Card Matching Game
/*fixed issue with screen sizing on 06-27-2025*/
A horror-based card matching game, created for a game development class project. This game features three modes: Amateur (Easy), Intermediate (Medium), and Expert (Hard), with the amateur mode having 12 cards, the intermediate mode having 24 cards, and the expert mode having 36 cards. Instead of having a countdown timer where you need to find all the matched cards within the time limit, there is a sanity marker that starts at 100% (for amateur and intermediate modes at least - 75% for expert mode) and drains 5% every 5 seconds of the game. Additionally, there is a hangman in the upper left corner that with each incorrect guess progresses up to 7 times and then the player would lose the game in this instance. There are also some helpful objects that can be used by the player, such as the cursed mirror (takes 25% sanity, but shows you all the cards for 3 seconds with a limit of 1 use), voodoo doll (will auto select a match for the player - has unlimited uses but has a chance to kill you with each use), salt (removes an incorrect guess from hangman - limit of 2 uses), crucifix (lets the player make unlimited attempts at finding card matches without penalty for 15 seconds - limit of 1 use), and sanity meds (gives the player 25% sanity, with a limit of 1 use). Ways to lose the game are: running out of sanity (0%), instant death from voodoo doll use, or hangman death / too many incorrect guesses. You win the game by keeping your sanity above 0% and finding all the card matches without getting killed by the voodoo doll or the ghosts hangman attempt (which just means getting 7 incorrect guesses). Not sure if this game will be further developed, but if it does I have some additional ideas and the whole look of the game would get a major makeover. Some ideas include: ghost interactions with player (such as it may hold a card for a few seconds and make it inaccessible for that time being), more cursed objects/helpful items, ghost type and evidence to be found (adding detective skill work to the game), jumpscares, etc., Thanks for checking out my game and I hope you have fun! Hopefully I got all the bugs, but if not, feel free to leave me a comment and I'll see what I can do!
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