Building the world's first computer

Coming back to 🖥️ Ada’s Dream feels amazing! 🥰 About one year ago we played the prototype of this mid-heavy weight euro, and very soon it will be finally released. This game is based on a somewhat alternate history, where Ada Lovelace gets to continue working on the Analytical Engine, creating the world’s first computer! Players in the game are assistants to Ada, each tinkering with their own devices. 📻

The game’s core is dice drafting. 🎲 Each turn you either draft a die, or slot in a die into your computer’s 3x3 grid and activate the matching action, depending on the die’s color. There are so many cool details to mention! ☺️

Even just drafting is exciting: 👉You first choose a die that you move clockwise on a rondel, pushing out another die with equal or less value to claim it. A bonus is activated depending on the section this happens in. You can also play a card from your hand for its effect, if the dice value matches the requirement. Finally, you might even go up on tracks if you have matching colored tucked in cards! 😁

Actions are nuanced too of course. To keep it brief, you can: 
🟦Travel around England and visit universities, claiming bonuses.
🟨Go to meeting rooms for majority scoring and claiming powerful new cards.
🟩Placing discs into institutions for all kinds of rewards and other types of majorities.
🟪Visiting Ada’s study to claim goals for your dice grid and other essential resources.

There are 4 main actions, but only 9 dice slots, so you will do most actions only 2-3 times in a game. While that may sound few, there are lots of combos and action-chains happening, so it feels a lot more than that. 💪 Games have a very fun arc, as you can collect new cards, go up on tracks and get more versatile. 

There are tons of ways to score in the game, and it is insanely replayable! The coolest source of points has to be the dice slotted into your 3x3 grid: by placing addition, subtraction or multiplication gears between them, the pips are combined into points. 🧮 Program tiles add additional goals for rows and column which are really fun to complete! 

Ada’s Dream definitely earns our seal of approval! 🎖️