The official website for. the world of Catan. Catan Xbox 360 adaptation stands out because of the reliable artificial intelligence of its computer opponents and its beautiful graphic design. About the game. Xbox Live Arcade is Microsoft’s online game service for the successful Xbox 360 console. On a platform that is both intuitive and innovative, players from all over the world get together to compete in exciting online duels. Now the board game “The Settlers of Catan” is a part of Xbox Live Arcade as well. Big Huge Games, one of the top developers of PC games, was excited to tackle this project. Brian Reynolds, the developer of such classics as “Civilization II” and “Rise of Nations,” is himself a big fan of the board game and specializes in the realization of demanding AI opponents. A very productive collaboration with Klaus Teuber developed, resulting in a most outstanding AI. The developers of Big Huge Games have accomplished awesome things in other areas as well. The game adapts very well to Xbox‘s simple operational concept and also allows a smooth game flow over the Internet. Up to 4 players compete according to the rules of the Base Game. Additional features such as permanently available communication via headset are a perfect fit for a highly interactive game such as Catan. I had no doubts that Brian Reynolds would do a good job, and the first version of the game already exceeded even my greatest expectations. The AI is so good that, as a start, I lost several games in a row. This version for Xbox is really an awesome achievement. Klaus Teuber about developer Brian Reynolds. All screenshots and the “dancing sheep” are used with kind permission of Big Huge Games. Die Siedler: Kцnigreiche von Anteria - Angekьndigt. Diskutiere Die Siedler: Kцnigreiche von Anteria - Angekьndigt im PC Games / Hardware Forum im Bereich Andere Systeme; Heute wurde das neue "Die Siedler" von Ubisoft angekьndigt. Es trдgt den Beinamen "Kцnigreiche von Anteria" und soll fьr den PC erscheinen. Passend dazu wurde . Die Siedler: Kцnigreiche von Anteria - Angekьndigt. Дhnliche Themen. The Wolf Among Us - Fьr Xbox One angekьndigt. The Wolf Among Us - Fьr Xbox One angekьndigt: Telltale Games hat bekannt gegeben das The Wolf Among Us auf der Xbox One (PS4 ebenfalls) erscheinen wird. Termin sowie Trailer werden zu einem. Battlefield: S.W.A.T. - Wird es auf der E3 angekьndigt? Battlefield: S.W.A.T. - Wird es auf der E3 angekьndigt?: Visceral Games soll mit Battlefield: S.W.A.T. angeblich am nдchsten Battlefield-Spiel arbeiten, das auf der E3 (10.06.14 - 12.06.14) enthьllt wird. GTA V - Story DLC angekьndigt. GTA V - Story DLC angekьndigt: Rockstar Games gibt bekannt, dass DLC fьr den "Story Mode" von Grand Theft Auto V 2014 verцffentlicht wird. Das Add-On soll die Geschichte von. Die offizielle Website. zu der Welt von Catan. „Die Siedler von Catan“ Die Umsetzung von „Die Siedler von Catan“ für die Xbox360 überzeugt durch eine solide künstliche Intelligenz der Computerspieler und die liebevolle grafische Gestaltung. Über das Spiel. Xbox Live Arcade ist der Online-Spiele-Service von Microsoft für seine erfolgreiche Xbox 360 Konsole. Auf einer sowohl intuitiven wie innovativen Plattform treffen sich Spieler aus aller Welt und treten gegeneinander in spannenden Online-Duellen an. Auch das Brettspiel „Die Siedler von Catan" hat nun seinen Platz dort. Mit Big Huge Games wurde einer der Top-Entwickler für PC Spielen für dieses Projekt gewonnen. Brian Reynolds, Entwickler von solchen Klassikern wie „Civilization II" und „Rise of Nations", ist selber ein großer Fan des Brettspiels und ein Spezialist in der Umsetzung von anspruchsvollen Spielgegnern (KI). Zusammen mit Klaus Teuber entwickelte sich eine sehr fruchtbare Zusammenarbeit, dessen Resultat eine wirklich hervorragende KI geworden ist. Auch in anderen Bereichen haben die Entwickler von Big Huge Games Tolles geleistet. Das Spiel fügt sich sehr gut in das einfache Bedienkonzept der Xbox und erlaubt auch flüssiges Spielen über das Internet. Bis zu 4 Spieler treten dann nach den Regeln des Basisspiels gegeneinander an. Zusätzliche Features wie die ständig verfügbare Sprach-Kommunikation via Headset sind wie zugeschnitten auf ein kommunikatives Spiel wie Catan. Ich hatte keine Bedenken, dass Brian Reynolds einen guten Job machen würde und die erste Version des Spiels übertraf bereits meine größten Erwartungen. Die KI ist so gut, dass ich erst einmal ein paar Spiele nacheinander verlor. Diese Version für Xbox ist wirklich eine tolle Leistung. Klaus Teuber über den Entwickler Brian Reynolds. All Screenshots and "Dancing Sheep" are used with kind permission of Big Huge Games. The Man Who Built Catan. February 12, 2014. In the eighties, Klaus Teuber was working as a dental technician outside the industrial city of Darmstadt, Germany. He was unhappy. “I had many problems with the company and the profession,” he told me. He started designing elaborate board games in his basement workshop. “I developed games to escape,” he said. “This was my own world I created.” Teuber, now sixty-one, is the creator of The Settlers of Catan, a board game in which players compete to establish the most successful colony on a fictional island called Catan, and the managing director of Catan GmbH, a multi-million-dollar business he runs with his family. First published in Germany in 1995 as Die Siedler von Catan, the game has sold more than eighteen million copies worldwide. It was released in the United States in 1996; last year, its English-language publisher, Mayfair Games, reported selling more than seven hundred and fifty thousand Catan-related products. Big-box chains like Target, Walmart, and Barnes & Noble carry the game and its offshoots, such as Catan cards, Catan Junior, and Star Trek Catan. Including all the spinoffs, expansions, and special editions, there are about eighty official varieties of Catan—more if you include electronic versions—and Teuber has had a hand in creating all of them. Paraphernalia in the online Catan shop includes socks and custom-designed tables. Rebecca Gablé, a German historical-fiction author, has written a Viking-era Settlers of Catan novel . Pete Fenlon, the C.E.O. of Mayfair Games, said, “Our volume of sales will be such that, over time, Catan could, in terms of gross revenue, be the biggest game brand in the world.” Teuber is still somewhat baffled by the popularity of his creation. “I never expected it would be so successful,” he said. Almost all board-game designers, even the most successful ones, work full time in other professions; Teuber is one of a tiny handful who make a living from games. “Going Cardboard,” a 2012 documentary about the board-game industry, includes footage of Teuber appearing at major gaming conventions, where he is greeted like a rock star—fans whisper and point when they see him—but seems sheepish while signing boxes. Teuber left his dental lab in 1998, “when I felt like Catan could feed me and my family,” he said. He and his wife, Claudia, have three children. In 2002, they incorporated Catan GmbH and made it the family business. Teuber and his sons, Guido and Benjamin, each hold the title of managing director; Guido focusses on the English-speaking market and Benjamin controls the international side and helps with game development. (Teuber’s daughter is an actress; although she’s sometimes roped in as an unofficial game tester, she’s not formally involved with the company.) Claudia is responsible for bookkeeping and testing new games. “Luckily, she loves Catan as I do,” Teuber said. Die Siedler von Catan is available in over thirty languages. Catan licenses the idea and prototype to publishers, who then produce and market the game and pay Catan GmbH about ten per cent in royalties. (The model works a lot like the relationship between book authors and their publishers.) Catan’s relationship with Mayfair goes deeper than a typical licensing deal: the companies have grown together, and, at this point, their fortunes are thoroughly intertwined. Catan GmbH is a shareholder in Mayfair, and Catan products make up a large portion of Mayfair’s revenue. “Collectively, all the rest of our portfolio doesn’t add up to Catan,” Mayfair’s Fenlon told me. The company originally sourced all of the materials for the game from Europe, but, when demand began to take off, the manufacturers didn’t have enough wood to keep up. Mayfair expanded to American companies for more resources. Today, every box of Catan that Mayfair produces is an international affair: the dice are tooled in Denmark; the more intricate wooden pieces are done in Germany; other wood parts are made in Ohio; the cards are from Dallas; the boxes, Illinois; the cardboard, Indiana; the plastic components, Wisconsin; finally, everything gets put together on an assembly line in Illinois. Here’s how The Settlers of Catan works: There are nineteen hexagonal tiles, known as “terrain hexes.” Each hex represents one of five resources: brick, wool, ore, grain, or lumber. To start the game, the tiles are shuffled and laid out to create the game board, which is the island. Every hex then gets assigned a number between two and twelve; these numbers are evenly distributed across the board. Players take turns rolling the dice, and the number that’s rolled determines which terrain hex produces resources. By collecting various combinations of resources, you can build roads and settlements around the borders of these hexes, placing little wooden houses on the board to mark out turf. More resources allow you to build more or to upgrade your settlements into cities. There’s also a robber in Catan, a token that moves around to different terrain hexes. When the robber’s on a hex, that terrain can’t produce its resources, and every time a seven is rolled players with too many resources have to give some back. The robber is crucial: it forces players to trade with opponents instead of hoarding goods. A board game with economic theory, land development, and cute little buildings: one is naturally reminded of something else. The Washington Post hailed Catan as the Monopoly “of our time.” Wired called it the “Monopoly Killer.” Meanwhile, Monopoly itself has begun to respond to the shifting tides. In 2007, Hasbro published Tropical Tycoon Monopoly, in which the original Atlantic City layout frames the perimeter while Rich Uncle Pennybags erupts from a volcanic tropical island in the center. U-Build Monopoly, released in 2010, replaces the rectangle properties with hexagonal tiles that resemble Catan’s terrain. Still, Derk Solko, a co-founder of the popular gaming forum Boardgamegeek.com, said to Wired in 2009, “If I could wave a magic wand and replace all the copies of Monopoly out there with Settlers, I truly think the world would be a better place.” Fenlon told me, “Our mission in life is to make Catan the preëminent game—to have people think of Catan instead of Monopoly when they think of a board game.” Teuber himself is more sanguine. “I do not see that Catan will kill Monopoly,” he said. “But I hope that Catan will become a permanent classic game beside Monopoly.” In Catan, one player’s success can benefit others, and if you simply form a monopoly on one resource you’ll never win, since you have to have a combination of different elements to get anywhere on the island. (There is a “Monopoly” card in Catan, which gives its holder the power to steal all the resource cards of a declared type from opponents’ hands, but it’s a one-time, unpredictable bonanza.) Competition, Teuber believes, makes Catan better, for players and for him. Strategy and inventiveness are required in order to keep up. Teuber was born in 1952 in Rai-Breitenbach, a small village tucked beneath Breuberg Castle, in central Germany. As a child, he set up miniature fighters and ancient Romans on the floor, using strings to create mountains and rivers and to build routes through the terrain. He rediscovered games during his mandatory military service, when he needed something to entertain his wife and young son in the barracks. He was still running Teuber Dental-Labor in 1988, when he designed Barbarossa, a game in which players mold clay sculptures and try to guess what their opponents’ figures represent. He had been reading “The Riddle-Master,” a swashbuckling fantasy trilogy by Patricia McKillip about a man who wins a game of riddles against a ghost. “I was sorry to see it come to an end,” Teuber said, “so I tried to experience this novel in a game.” It took Teuber seven years to show Barbarossa to a publisher, but when he did it was a hit. The game won the 1988 Spiel des Jahres award, the most coveted prize in the board-game world. According to Stewart Woods, a communications professor at the University of Western Australia, a successful game typically sells about ten thousand copies in Germany; a Spiel des Jahres winner can expect to sell between three hundred and five hundred thousand. After Barbarossa, Teuber designed several other games and won two more Spiel des Jahres awards, but he was still working fourteen-hour days in the dental lab. In 1991, after reading histories of Viking life, he became fascinated with Iceland and the age of discovery. “What was it like when they reached this virgin island?” he said. “I wanted to find out.” He tinkered with an island-settling game for four years, testing versions on his wife and children every weekend. Initially, the instructions included lots of complicated mechanics—for example, if you had enough cities and settlements in a cluster, you could create a metropole—but eventually, Teuber said, “I cooked it to the heart of the game.” A breakthrough moment came when Teuber experimented with using hexagonal tiles instead of squares for his board. He said he had a dream that he remembered having once before, the last time he won the Spiel des Jahres: “I was standing on the shore of a pond and saw very big fish, and I angled the biggest of them.” Die Siedler von Catan was an instant success in Germany and won the 1995 Spiel des Jahres. At the time, Spiel des Jahres winners had been gaining traction in American hobby stores for several years, but Catan became America’s gateway into Eurogames, a genre of tightly designed, strategy-based products. Eurogames—also called German-style games, because most of them originate in Germany—have fairly simple rules and are intellectually demanding but not overly complicated. They are also more expensive: Monopoly’s suggested retail price is eighteen dollars; The Settlers of Catan retails for forty-two dollars. The rise of Eurogames parallels the rise of digital games, but Eurogames are insistently analog. They can be as complex as video games, but, because there’s no fixed narrative, groups of people play together over and over. Last August, nine hundred and twenty-two people played on a huge archipelago of linked Catans, setting a Guinness World Record for the most people playing the board game at one time. “Catan opened the door for consumers to reconsider board games as a social play experience,” Brian Magerko, a digital-media professor at Georgia Tech, told me. Catanians, as they call themselves, aren’t Luddites; computers, after all, made the growth of Catan possible. It hit the market just as the gaming community was adopting the Internet, and the Internet enabled Catan to go viral. There are more than eighty thousand active members of Playcatan.com, the game’s online platform. Catan can be played on iOS, Android, and Xbox; there have been about two million downloads of Catan apps. The electronic versions aren’t likely to displace the cardboard version, though: the players I talked to stressed that the game must be played in analog to be truly enjoyed. As Magerko put it, “There is something about the co-location of physical items, sitting across from each other at a table, sharing pizza, that playing with digital board games online simply does not replace.” In Germany, Catan sold very well in the first few years after it was released, then sales flattened. In the U.S., it started in a niche gamer crowd but gradually became more popular. College students took it up, as did their professors. It spread to Silicon Valley, where entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerberg and John Lilly traded bricks for logs on corporate retreats. “It’s like our kind of golf game,” Mark Pincus, the C.E.O. of Zynga, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009. The Colts quarterback Andrew Luck is also a fan . Catan has appeared twice on “The Big Bang Theory.” On “Parks and Recreation,” Ben Wyatt plays it at his bachelor party and creates his own Catan spinoff called The Cones of Dunshire. Since 1995, Teuber has developed a few games outside the Catan world, including the medieval-themed Domaine, a sort of power-mad little brother to Catan (“Perhaps a little too competitive,” Teuber admitted). His latest non-Catan game, Norderwind, is slated for release in Germany in March. Teuber likes to play Catan online, but he tries to keep his profile anonymous: “When they find out it’s me, they don’t like to trade with me as much,” he said. The social aspect of the game is what Teuber seems proudest of. He mentioned that he once received a letter from an attendant at a sanitarium for children, who said that one of the boys there had never spoken to the other children. Then, at some point, the boy happened to notice a group of kids playing Catan. “He came to the other children and started to play,” Teuber said. “Now he gets contact with other people. Catan is the medium for that.” Photograph: Patrick Seeger/Picture-Alliance/DPA/AP.

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For optimal graphics and performance or if you’re using a 32Bit OS, we recommend downloading Catan Universe via Steam. Visit our forum to see detailed information on the latest update. Have fun playing Catan Universe! Visit our forum to see detailed information on the latest update.im Forum Have fun playing Catan Universe! We’re looking forward to your feedback. Play it here. All Devices. Play anytime, anywhere - against all Catan players worldwide. On a PC or a Mac (via browser or client), on mobil devices (iOS and Android available soon), at home or on the road - the Catan universe is growing together. Endless Fun. Settle on the island of Catan, sail your ships to new shores in the Seafarers expansion, or protect Catan from the barbarian invasion in Cities and Knights. Every scenario offers new challenges and requires new tactics. Furthermore, the card game Rivals for Catan will provide an extra 2-player challenge! The Original Board Game. Play according to the original board game rules - trade, build, and settle. Explore and settle the island and become Lord of Catan! Find more about the board game on catan.com. The Whole World. Join guilds uniting players from all around the world. Compete in tournaments either for your guild or for your own glory. Chat with friends and fellow players - and create your own avatar in the game. The Settlers of Catan. An introductory rules explanation and review. Ever wanted to dive into the wide world of board games, but have no idea where to start? Are you a fan of strategy, conspiring against your friends or just fun in general? Well then, this is the place for you! This series will introduce a handful of popular European board games – providing an explanation of their rules, and some speculation to the reasons behind their success – in the hope of familiarizing them to anyone curious about the many board games beyond Cluedo, Monopoly, and Scrabble. I will start today with an all-time favourite – The Settlers of Catan. About four years ago, I partook in my first game of Catan . I was in the University dorm room of a friend of a friend of a friend, and there were so many of us playing that, even using the six-player expansion, we had to play in teams and use a timer to limit the length of turns. It was in this most confusing and inebriated setting that my love for Catan blossomed. There was something about the game that was just so fun that I could not wait for my next opportunity to play. That summer I obtained a copy of Catan , took it with me to every social gathering I attended, and taught the rules to every family member and friend who was willing to learn. The amazing thing was that the fervour spread, and before I knew it many of the people I had introduced to the game had purchased their own copy – conveniently meaning that I no longer had to drag mine around with me. So, what is this game and why is it so fun? The Settlers of Catan is a resource management strategy game developed by German Klaus Teuber. Since its release in 1995, it has achieved worldwide popularity, and is today available in over thirty languages. In Catan, you play the role of an intrepid adventurer, determined to settle your people on the new continent before anyone else. You achieve this by gathering resources, trading with your opponents, and building roads, settlements and cities to further your burgeoning empire. Building earns you Victory Points, and the first player to 10 Victory Points wins. The game board is made up of nineteen hexagonal terrain tiles, each representing a resource – brick, lumber, wool, grain, and ore, plus one barren desert tile. The tiles can be placed according to a number of recommended layouts or arrayed at random – suggested once you have exhausted the provided scenarios. Board assembled with terrain hexes – Mountains, Fields, Hills, Forest, and Pasture. These produce the resources shown above respectively – Ore, Grain, Bricks, Lumber, and Wool. Atop these hexes, number tokens are placed. Catan is played using two six-sided dice, thus the numbers on the tokens range from one to twelve – all the possible numbers you can roll using two six-sided dice. The dots beneath the numbers represent the probability of that number being rolled. Red numbers have the highest probability. Assembled board with number tokens added. The higher the probability the better, because when the number atop that resource hex is rolled – by any player – the players settled adjacent to the hex will generate its resource. Red has a settlement placed adjacent to Mountains and a six has been rolled. They generate one Ore. Before you can do any rolling however, there is a little more setup to do. Players begin with two settlements each, all with one connected road. Everyone rolls to determine who places their settlement first. This ‘starting player’ places one settlement and a connecting road anywhere they wish – the locations adjacent to red numbers being most desirable. Everyone else takes turns clockwise until you reach the final player. The final player then gets to place their second settlement first, and turn order reverses. This may seem confusing, but the logic behind this rule is sound. It means the placement of starting settlements is fairer than if the starting player were allowed to place both their settlements first. Red, blue, and white have all placed their starting settlements on the board. Each is at least two road lengths away from other settlements, and each has been placed with one adjoining road. Settlements must always be placed at least two road lengths apart from each other, and roads must always be connected to settlements – with the exception of your starting settlements, which may be placed separately. Next, all players receive one resource for each tile adjacent to their starting settlement. Once these are collected, you are ready to play. Blue is placed adjacent to Mountains, Hills, and Fields, so they receive one each of Ore, Grain and Bricks as their starting resources. Play begins with the starting player, determined during set up. All turns from here on have the same three phases: The player whose turn it is rolls both dice, and resources are generated. Whoever is settled adjacent to a terrain tile with the rolled number on it picks up one card representing that resource. If you have more than one settlement adjacent to the same hex, you pick up according to the number of settlements. Upgraded settlements (‘cities’) generate two resources instead. The active player then has an opportunity to trade with others. Any trade is acceptable; the only thing you cannot do is give resources away in exchange for nothing. Usually, people trade resources 1:1, or perhaps 2:1 or 3:1 if a particular resource is scarce. You may also engage with ‘Domestic Trade,’ which is an elaborate name for trading with the bank. Any 4 similar resources may be traded for 1 of another type of resource. The last variety of trade is ‘Maritime’. The coast of Catan is dotted with ports. If you build on a port, you can trade with the bank for a better rate – but the rate might be specific to a resource. For example, you might be able to trade 2 wool for 1 of anything else – but you may only use wool in this deal. Finally – and most excitingly! – the player may build. Each player has a ‘Building Costs’ card, which acts as a handy reminder of your choices. Building Costs Card. Your cheat sheet for Catan. Aside from building roads/settlements and upgrading your settlements into cities, players may buy Development Cards. These cards are drawn from a deck at random, but all grant the player a benefit. Some allow the player to build two roads free of cost, while others count as a free Victory Point. Players take turns completing these phases in clockwise order until somebody obtains 10 Victory Points and wins. Those of you who have very observant hawk eyes – or perhaps are actually hawks – will have noticed that none of the number tokens display a ‘7’. Seven is special. When seven is rolled, two things happen: 1. Anyone who holds eight or more cards must give half to the bank (to prevent players from hoarding resources), and. 2. The active player must move the Robber. This devious character lurks on the desert hex until the rolling of a seven summons him to wreak havoc on the Settlers. The robber is placed by the active player on any other resource hex tile. While on this tile the robber blocks that tile’s resource production. The player who moved the robber also gets to steal one resource at random from the player whose resource production they have chosen to block. Finally, there are two ways to earn ‘Special Victory Points’ – ‘Longest Road’ and ‘Largest Army’. The first is self-explanatory – whoever builds the longest road gains this card. The second is obtained by playing the most ‘Knight’ cards. Knights are Development cards whose effect is to allow the active player to move the Robber when used – as if a ‘7’ had been rolled. Obtaining ‘Largest Army’ requires at least three Knights to have been played. Both these special cards can be stolen from the first player to obtain them by building a longer road or larger army. Special Victory Point Cards. Worth 2 Victory Points each. So that is how the game is played, but why is it so much fun, and why has it been so successful? Catan has wide appeal because it engages anyone who enjoys strategy, and ‘strategy’ includes a wide genre of games – classic RTS such as Stronghold and Age of Empires , mobile strategy games like Plants vs Zombies, even traditional card games such as Bridge , Canasta, or Hearts are strategy games. Despite its strong strategic elements, Catan is also very social. It does not matter how sound your strategy is, there is always some element of luck involved when it comes to resource generation. As a result, trading is essential to get the resources you actually want, and trading is never as simple as offering your surplus and receiving what you need. Catan can get very competitive very quickly, making you feel as cunning and suspicious of your fellow players as a courtier might do in King’s Landing. All board games have something I term the ‘Social Element’, which is the extent to which your social participation in the game (rather than just your strategy) influences how likely you are to win the game. In Catan, the Social Element is a strong factor – it impacts the game’s mechanics. If you do not engage in trade with other players, game progress will be slow, and it’s unlikely that you will win. This almost compulsory social interaction means you have to be fully engaged to have a chance of winning, and if everyone is engaged and interested, the game feels more exciting for everyone. The random generation of the board means that every game is different. It keeps each session fresh and interesting, and prevents experienced players from developing a faultless ‘win strategy,’ which would create a gap between new and experienced players. Experience still counts, but it is far from the only important factor. The downside of random board generation is that you can end up with an unbalanced playing field – for instance, there may be plenty of lumber in circulation, but bricks may be near impossible to attain. Although this kind of situation can be frustrating, the various trading mechanics mean it is never game breaking. Visually, Catan looks great. The quality of its art and graphic design on all the game pieces is impressive and immersive. It sets a high bar for the quality of board game graphic design. The detail of some of it is actually quite startling. It was only after playing the game for a few months that I noticed the depth of detail on the game hexes. The detail on the terrain hexes and Development cards is impressive. Although Catan has fairly wide appeal, it cannot be said that it is for everyone. I have introduced the game to a wide diversity of people – including my eighty-six year-old grandmother, and my friend’s seven year-old sister. I have found that anybody familiar with any kind of strategy game or board game will be capable of picking it up, and usually enjoy it; however, the onslaught of rules can be daunting, especially when trying to play with tabletop beginners. In my experience, it is best to use a ‘learn by doing’ approach and play a few practice rounds to keep everyone engaged and allow a safe space for questions to be asked. Both my grandmother and seven-year-old Zoe seemed to enjoy Catan , despite not being totally up to speed with the strategy. The social side of the game saw them engaged and entertained, despite the gaps in their knowledge of the rules. The few negatives that can be applied to Catan are features I have already touched on – the learning curve can be steep during your first game, and the random nature of resource generation can be frustrating for hardcore strategists. What I have not mentioned is how intensely, even nastily, competitive this game can get. Most board games encourage a healthy competitive spirit – Catan is likely to bring that out in your friends and family tenfold. Most of the time this makes the game full of fun quips and interesting dynamics, but it only takes one person to be feeling a little grumpy for things to get uncomfortable fast. It is tough to say whether this is a result of the game’s design however, and herein lies what makes board games so interesting – who you are playing with, ‘The Social Element,’ can really effect the nature of the game. It is easy to see why Catan has become so successful – sound strategy and mechanics, highly impressive graphic design and illustration, and a strong Social Element. The high level of strategy at play in Catan means that you are unlikely to win your first game. However, the random nature of resource generation means there is always a chance for the underdog to get lucky and make a glorious comeback. Anyone who has the patience to learn the rules will likely enjoy it. All board games require some degree of patience – the quality of the game determines whether or not this waiting and learning is worth it. In the case of Catan, it certainly is. Related Items. The Settlers of Catan. Top Game Rankings. Outstanding. Outstanding. Outstanding. Hotline Miami. Outstanding. Guacamelee! Outstanding. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this site's material, without express and written permission from the owner, is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Another Dungeon with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. Die Siedler: Kцnigreiche von Anteria - Angekьndigt. Diskutiere Die Siedler: Kцnigreiche von Anteria - Angekьndigt im PC Games / Hardware Forum im Bereich Andere Systeme; Heute wurde das neue "Die Siedler" von Ubisoft angekьndigt. Es trдgt den Beinamen "Kцnigreiche von Anteria" und soll fьr den PC erscheinen. Passend dazu wurde . Die Siedler: Kцnigreiche von Anteria - Angekьndigt. Дhnliche Themen. The Wolf Among Us - Fьr Xbox One angekьndigt. The Wolf Among Us - Fьr Xbox One angekьndigt: Telltale Games hat bekannt gegeben das The Wolf Among Us auf der Xbox One (PS4 ebenfalls) erscheinen wird. Termin sowie Trailer werden zu einem. Battlefield: S.W.A.T. - Wird es auf der E3 angekьndigt? Battlefield: S.W.A.T. - Wird es auf der E3 angekьndigt?: Visceral Games soll mit Battlefield: S.W.A.T. angeblich am nдchsten Battlefield-Spiel arbeiten, das auf der E3 (10.06.14 - 12.06.14) enthьllt wird. GTA V - Story DLC angekьndigt. GTA V - Story DLC angekьndigt: Rockstar Games gibt bekannt, dass DLC fьr den "Story Mode" von Grand Theft Auto V 2014 verцffentlicht wird. Das Add-On soll die Geschichte von. Die Siedler von Catan im Test. Wer kennt sie nicht, die Siedler von Catan? Seit 1995 besiedeln sie unsere Wohnzimmer. Nun haben sie ihren Weg auch auf das virtuelle Spielbrett gefunden, um noch mehr Spieler in ihren Bann zu ziehen. Ob ihnen das gelingt, lest ihr in unserem… Wer kennt sie nicht, die Siedler von Catan ? Seit 1995 besiedeln sie unsere Wohnzimmer. Nun haben sie ihren Weg auch auf das virtuelle Spielbrett gefunden, um noch mehr Spieler in ihren Bann zu ziehen. Ob ihnen das gelingt, lest ihr in unserem ausführlichen Test. Noch keine Kommentare. Hinterlasse eine Antwort Antworten abbrechen. Du musst eingeloggt sein, um einen Kommentar hinterlassen zu können. Описание. Play true to the original board game rules, compete with up to four players for the most settlements, the longest roads and the largest army. Trade important resources, build roads and cities, settle the island and become Lord of Catan! Prove your strategy skills by challenging other Catan fans online via cross-platform multiplayer, or take on the AI with various computer opponents, each with their own individual characteristics. Become Harbormaster, discover new islands, invest new trade goods and defeat the barbarians, vanquish dragons or build a canal with the additional expansions. - Play according to the original board game rules. - Synchronous online multiplayer. - Smart computer opponents with individual strategies. - The Seafarers and Cities & Knights LITE: Test the expansions in selected scenarios. - Available languages: English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese. - The Seafarers: Play your way through the elaborate campaign made up of 16 diverse scenarios and sail your ships to new shores. - Cities & Knights: Protect Catan from the barbarian invasion. New gameplay mechanics add even more variety to Catan. - The new scenarios: Vanquish dragons or build a canal with the "Enchanted Land" and "The Great Canal" scenarios. - The Islands: Discover uncharted lands with a collection of unofficial multi-island scenarios. Answer: The download from Google play includes the basic game data and a tool that will determine your device’s display resolution and then download the optimal graphics data for your device. Answer: “Storage” to write data to the SD or move the game data, “Network communication” to download game data and access the In App Store and “system tools” to check if Catan is already running to resume a game. Answer: Don’t worry; your initial purchase is already saved in your Google account. However for technical reasons you might have to select “Buy” again. Confirm and a message will tell you that you’ve already purchased it. You will NOT be billed twice! Answer: Savegames from old versions can usually be restored automatically. For all other cases we’ve integrated a cheat code: Enter campaign mode and go to select player. Enter „CatanWarp*“ (* = 1–15, e.g "CatanWarp5") as your player name and confirm. Exit the game via the home button. Enter your phone’s settings menu. Select applications/manage applications/Catan/ and then “Force Stop”. Restart Catan. The campaign can now be continued from the specified level number by selecting “New scenario *”. Suggestions for improvements and feature requests? Mail to android@usm.de. We are looking forward to your feedback! Играть верным оригинальным правилам настольной игры, конкурировать с до четырех игроков большинство поселений, самые длинные дороги и самой большой армии. Торговые важные ресурсы, строить дороги и города, поселить на остров и стать Господом Катан! Доказать, что ваши навыки стратегии от сложных других Катаных поклонников онлайн через кросс-платформенный мультиплеер, или взять на себя AI с различными компьютерными противниками, каждый со своими индивидуальными особенностями. Стать Порта, открывать новые острова, инвестировать новые торговые товары и победить варваров, победить драконов или построить канал с дополнительными расширениями. - Играть по правилам оригинальной настольной игры. - Синхронный многопользовательских онлайн. - умные компьютерные противники с индивидуальными стратегиями. - Моряки и Города и рыцари LITE: Тест разложения в отдельных сценариях. - Доступные языки: английский, немецкий, французский, голландский, испанский, португальский, японский. - The Моряки: Играть свой путь через сложные кампании, состоящие из 16 различных сценариев и отплыть свои корабли к новым берегам. - Города и Рыцари: Защита Катан от нашествия варваров. Новая механика геймплея добавить еще больше разнообразия Катан. - Новые сценарии: Победить дракона или построить канал с «Enchanted Land» и сценарии «Великий Канал». - Острова: Откройте для себя неизведанные земли с коллекцией неофициальных сценариев несколько островов. Ответ: скачать с Google Play включает в себя основные данные игры и инструмент, который будет определять разрешение экрана вашего устройства, а затем загрузить оптимальные графические данные для вашего устройства. Ответ: «Storage» для записи данных на SD или переместить данные игры, «Сеть связи» для загрузки данных игры и доступ к В App Store и «системных инструментов», чтобы проверить, если Катан уже запущен, чтобы возобновить игру. Ответ: Не волнуйтесь; ваши первоначальные покупки уже сохранены в вашем аккаунте Google. Однако по техническим причинам вы, возможно, придется выбрать «Купить» еще раз. Подтвердите и сообщение будет вам сказать, что вы уже приобрели. Вы не будете выставлены счет в два раза! Ответ: Сохраненные игры из старых версий обычно могут быть восстановлены автоматически. Во всех остальных случаях мы интегрировали чит-код: Введите режим кампании и пойти, чтобы выбрать игрок. Введите «CatanWarp *» (* = 1-15, например "CatanWarp5") в качестве имени игрока и подтвердить. Выход из игры через кнопку домой. Войдите в меню настроек телефона. Выберите приложения / управление приложениями / Катан /, а затем «Force Stop». Перезапустите Катан. Кампания теперь может быть продолжено с указанного номера уровня, выбрав «Новый сценарий *». Microsoft : Die Siedler von Catan als HTML5-Demo. Mit dem Brettspielklassiker Die Siedler von Catan beschäftigt sich Microsoft immer wieder, jetzt hat die Firma unter dem Namen Catan Anytime die Beta einer HTML5-Umsetzung veröffentlicht. Zur Gamescom soll eine weiter fortgeschrittene Fassung folgen. Egal ob Smartphone oder Desktop-PC: Die neueste, von Microsoft gemeinsam mit Bontom Games programmierte Ausgabe von Die Siedler von Catan läuft auf jedem Gerät - sofern der Browser HTML5 unterstützt, was bei so gut wie jedem inzwischen der Fall sein dürfte. Die nun unter dem Namen Catan Anytime veröffentlichte Betaversion erlaubt Multiplayerpartien mit bis zu vier Freunden, die sich aber tatsächlich noch selbst verabreden müssen. Später soll es neben einem automatischen Matchmaking auch Solopartien geben. Vor allem aber will Microsoft das komplette Regelwerk in Catan Anytime einbauen und auch Extras wie Achievements integrieren. Die jetzt verfügbare Fassung hat noch einige kleinere Bugs, die aber nicht weiter stören dürften. Besonders praktisch ist, dass sich die Teilnehmer in dem rundenbasierten Spiel per Mail benachrichtigen lassen können, wenn sie wieder an der Reihe sind zu ziehen. Microsoft hatte bereits in der Vergangenheit Die Siedler von Catan als Basis für Spielexperimente genutzt, etwa 2010 für seinen Multitouch-Tisch Surface. Die Siedler von Catan ist ein Brettspiel von Klaus Teuber, dessen Urversion bereits 1995 erschien. Auch für die Xbox 360 gibt es eine Umsetzung.