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Life & fun · June 21, 2019

Matchimals.fun – I built and open-sourced a card game for kids

🦁 🃏 📱 An animal matching puzzle card game– built with turn-based game engine boardgame.io and React-Native + React-Native-Web - chrisheninger/matchimals.fun

Matchimals.fun – I built and open-sourced a card game for kids launched on June 21, 2019 with 9 votes, #826 of 2,757 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

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