Museum Memory Match

The brief

The 2025 edition of Museum Mosaic prints 24 artefact cards on one page, meant to be photocopied twice to make a memory deck. The online version turns that sheet into a game of pairs: objects from museums across India, from the Amrapali Museum in Jaipur to the Museum of Santal Culture in Bishnubati.

What we built

The game is a three.js table that sits over the original browser game as a view. The 2D game keeps the rules, the counter, the win state and the keyboard path. The 3D scene reads its state and animates to match, and a tap on a card is passed to the same buttons, so 3D, the fallback and plain play cannot disagree. Quality tiers suit the phone in hand. Without WebGL the table falls back to CSS 3D transforms over the same cards. The canvas is hidden from screen readers, who get the plain game.

How it works for the visitor

A visitor picks one of four levels, of 6, 10, 15 or 22 pairs, then drags to turn the table or scrolls to zoom. The top level plays with the phone turned sideways. Cards carry the object's name, and a match shows the full printed caption.

One detail worth knowing

The printed sheet gives two of its 24 cards the captions of other objects. We held both back and say why on the page, so the top level is 22 pairs, not 24, until the publisher confirms the captions.