Storyline: Classic Memory Game

This is great, I'm trying to recreate the motion path of the card. Can you provide insight?

Excellent !

Great job, Dane.

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Very nice, Dane! And I appreciate your response to Amber on the transitions with states! Very nice to know.

Thank you for sharing! This is great...

This is a terrific activity! Thank you. Although I must say, I about went nuts with a 12-card layout! Also, nice to know about the animation workaround while in state edit. I've hit that wall before too.

Very cool indeed. Why is it impossible to turn or resize the cards? Are they locked in some way? I would like to have 9 cards standing.

Gustaf, I noticed this too. For some reason you can click on the cards and the timeline responds to show you which card you have selected, but you don't see the eight select handles surrounding the card--unless you are in the state edit and then you do see the select handles. In state edit you can then turn the card, size or even change the picture for "opaque" side of the card. Not sure why this demo has this select issue when outside of state edit.

Thanks Peggy, Thanks Gustaf! I see exactly what you're talking about, and I have to admit I have no idea what's causing those cards to require being in the state-edit mode in order to get the transform handles, definitely curious! If you figure it out, let me know!

How can I have the matched cards remain "turned over" for about 2 seconds vs. about a half second before the matched cards disappear?

That's a good question, Tom. I would also like to have the two selected cards display for a little longer before the matched cards disappear or the unmatched cards flip back to opaque state. I think this may display longer if you were to increase the size of each of the Circle Motion paths (smiley faces) so the animation travel takes longer to complete (because after the Circle Motion path animation completes, that is what resets the state of the cards to opaque or hidden). Unfortunately, when you use motion paths inside a trigger, you cannot control the seconds duration like you can through the animation menu options (new feature option??).

Thanks so much, Dane! That does work, and you solved the timing problem I was having on a triggered motion path on a different interaction too. I'm finally getting how this animation stuff works!

Awesome...this is exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks for sharing.

Question: I would like to have more than 6 cards, about 9 to 12. However, the background layer/img does not appear to be accessible in Slide Master view. I will try and simply bring in a new background img with enough realestate for up to 12 cards to see if that works. If you have a different solutions, please let me know....Warning! I'm a newbie, if you have the time can you please translate instruction in layman's terms? It'll probably be a challenge for a "newbe" to add more cards and copy/paste existing transitions/triggers, etc and then sync...but I'm up for the challenge. Looking forward to hearing from you Dane...or any others who have modified accordingly.

Also, I don't see the purpose of the Smiley Faces. Am I missing something?

I've done it with twelve and I'm a newbie! You need to rotate the cards from landscape to vertical to fit 12 on the screen. It is challenging, but well worth the effort. By the time you're finished, you will have a better understanding of how this activity works in Storyline. I've made some progress on translating or explaining how this all works for my developer co-workers who also want to use this activity, but I'm not finished. The best I can explain about the Smiley Faces are that they are like placeholders that keep track when something happens. For example, MyTimer-Mismatch: This moves the red smiley face object when a mismatch occurs. This mismatch event is used later in subsequent triggers. Perhaps Dane can comment on this. Good luck!

Monica, I think if you click on a card (which does not appear to select it, but you will see that it does on the Timeline), and then go into Edit States you can rotate cards, resize, move, etc.

@Peggy, thank you so much for the quick and easy-to-understand response. I do see how to access each card via the State view...excellent! Very good to know that all I need to do to add more cards is to rotate them vertically....awesome! I also now get the purpose of the smiley faces...placeholders makes perfect sense. I'm certainly going to experiment with this template until I get it exactly how I can use it...and thanks to you, Peggy, I can get started right away! Have an awesome eDesign day!

Glad to hear you're having some success tweaking and expanding the project! About the smiley faces, they are actually a sort of make-shift 'functions' (like what you would write in Javascript) - The benefit to them is that you can put a whole bunch of triggers "inside" of them (by using 'do when animation completes'), and then you can 'call' that function and execute all of those triggers from within another object / trigger by telling it to run that particular animation. This saves you from having to add all of those triggers to multiple objects; instead, other objects just run the animation, which executes all of the triggers upon completion. The animation in itself is just a necessity to make this work; it serves no purpose in and of itself (which is why it's off-screen). Hope that makes sense! Dane

Thanks for responding, Dane. I totally get it!!!

Hi Dane, I am using your cool Memory Game as a knowledge checkpoint in my training. I want my learner to continue with the next slide after completing the game, but my trigger is not working. I placed a Next Button trigger at the Great Job! You're a winner State but is messing other triggers. If you were wanting to add a "Next button" trigger where do you recommend I will do that (Timeline/States)? Thank you kindly for sharing your awesome template.

Thank you so much for sharing this and showing how to loop an action in storyline. This has opened an all new way of coding possibilities in Storyline.

Thanks for sharing. This is helpful!

Thanks for sharing.