Political Memory: launch!

Political Memory can now be played! In this game, you will match the faces of famous Belgian politicians. Some of them are a bit weird, some are a bit bland, but all of them are very much Belgian.
Politicians can be inspected to learn a bit about them, and random events may be triggered to change the state of the board. There are  currently 12 politicians and 7 random events to discover. Can you find them all?

Future updates?

• Finetuning the interface (always important)
• I'm not happy with the way events are triggering right now. I previously had an entire clock which tried to launch an event every second, but this felt annoying: the events didn't feel connected to user behavior this way. Currently events are considered whenever you fail to match 2 cards, but this feels a bit too easy.
• Something seems to be wrong with the preloader: images aren't preloaded correctly, so the game is a bit slower than it should be.
• Expect more cards and random events to be added as time goes by. Who knows, I might even consider expansion packs to branch out into the politics of other countries as well. Any suggestions are certainly welcome!

Some technical background:

I first created Political Memory about a year ago to get some practice with the basic concepts of Javascript, and as I learned more and more things, I always had the idea of revisiting the game and adding some more complexity to it.
This new version has been built in React, which was admittedly a bit of a weird choice. After all, React is not the best framework to make webgames in: the way components pass variables and the aynchronous state updates make it difficult to keep track of which value is which. Nevertheless, I wanted to get some experience in React, and I figured a webgame was a good way of seeking out the limits of the framework.