About the project
In Almadi, players draft landscape tiles from a shared board and place them in the matching row of their own realm, triggering chained effects, summoning the Genie and completing royal objectives. The optional Characters variant adds unique powers and scoring for more strategy. First released on BGA in December 2021, the adaptation was later ported to a new back-end framework while the game was live.
Challenges and Risks
- Row-locked drafting and landscape moves requiring a dedicated legal-move computation
- Chained effects looping through landscape, Genie, objective and recruitment phases
- Genie activation rules with once-per-turn bonuses
- A Characters variant with individual powers and simultaneous starting selection
- A complete back-end rewrite without breaking games in progress