project:ustermemory

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Historical photographs are witnesses of a distant past. Uster, the third largest city in the Canton of Zürich, with over 30 000 inhabitants, is one of the twenty largest cities in Switzerland. The photographs of Julius Gujer (1893-1909), an entrepreneur and gifted photographer, offer an insight into the industrial development of a small Swiss town at the turn of the century. A large collection of 492 of his photos has been made available by the city of Uster on the occasion of the first Zurich Archival Hackday on June 9th, 2017, at the state archives of the Canton of Zurich. 16 random photos drawn from this repository have been turned into an online game application.

Uster Memory 1.0

Uster Memory is a single-file application coded in HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript. One dynamic HTML file (index.html, <15 kb) provides all the markup, interactivity and animations both of the gallery and game modes. The application is executable in any modern web browser and on any device, including mobile phones, tablets, and tv screens.

Uster Memory is a fully playable tile-matching game coded in HTML 5. It offers both a gallery and a game mode, allowing the player to browse and pick a photo of his choice and, by clicking on its center, to start the game. Identical tiles will remain open. Once all matching tiles are found, the game will return into gallery mode indicating the final score.

2017/06/09 v1.0: Basic game engine
2017/06/10 v1.01: Improved color theme and animations

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