kioku: a simple and customizable memory game

22 May 2021

Unfortunately one of the parents of a friend of mine was diagnosed with Alzheimer. The good news is that it's still at the first stage so keeping the brain active will help a lot.

The classic memory game with covered cards can be useful, but I thought that it could be more pleasant with cards showing something close to affections, for example photos or drawings of what you care about.

Welcome kioku

kioku (記憶) — it means memory in Japanese — it's a memory game where you can create your own levels released under the GPL3 license. I had to make it run also on Android so I used Python with the kivy framework to support both Linux and Android.

Here a screenshot of the game screen on Linux playing a custom level made with photo of cats¹:

Code

The code is at https://noa.mornie.org/eriol/kioku and the README cover already topics like build and install, level creation and level load, so I'm not repeating them here.