Chapter 3. Building a Card-matching Game in CSS3

CSS3 introduces many exciting features. In this chapter, we will explore and use some of them to create a card-matching game. CSS3 styles how the game objects look and animate, while the jQuery library helps us to define the game logic.

In this chapter, we will:

  • Transform a playing card with animation
  • Flip a playing card with new CSS3 properties
  • Create the whole memory matching game
  • Embed a custom web font to our game

You can try the card-matching game at the following URL to have a glimpse of what we are going to achieve in this chapter:

http://makzan.net/html5-games/card-matching/

So, let's get on with it.

Moving game objects with CSS3 transition

We had a glimpse of the CSS3 transition and transformation ...

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