I think these are actually factors that women like. Teuber has a theory about why the game became so popular. Catan sales surged after it was released in the United States in 1996 and continued upward, prompting him to quit his day job. Sales didn't taper off after a few years, as with his previous award-winning games. When it was released in Germany in 1995 - as Die Siedler von Catan - it was an instant hit. It took him nearly four years to reduce the game to a single island ready to be explored and developed by players (the sea exploration segment was later sold as an expansion of the original game). The first draft "was very big," he says, and it included multiple islands and ships filled with settlers exploring new lands. And this gave me the idea to create a game of exploration and of settling," he says. "I was fascinated that they sailed the open sea and explored new lands like Iceland, Greenland or America, and in my imagination I considered what will they do when they come to Iceland? They'll need wood, they'll need to harvest food. Then, in the early 1990s, inspired by the history of the Vikings and the Age of Discovery. His first games did well: He won three Spiel des Jahres awards, a coveted prize in the board game industry. It is a board game of trade and development where players compete for resources in a race to build settlements, cities and roads. "That was the very first step for the later development of Catan," he says.Ĭatan, once known as The Settlers of Catan, would become Teuber's masterpiece. He remembers playing it by himself, pitting one army against the other over a pretend-landscape of rivers, plains and mountains that he had fashioned at his family's home in Rai-Breitenbach, a German village located at the foot of a castle and surrounded by forest. "It was a tabletop game with wonderful painted figures, and you had to role the dice to fight against the others," Teuber recalls. It was a game of Romans versus Carthaginians. "Ah, so wonderful! There is adventure in this box!"
"When I opened the box of the game, I liked the scent of the game," he remembers, inhaling deeply. In 1963, 11-year-old Klaus Teuber received a gift that would change his life: a board game. Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the game's launch, the elder Teuber has released an autobiography, My Way to Catan. The game board of Settlers of the Stone Age also used a map inspired by the modern continents, although it did retain the familiar hexagonal spaces of the original CATAN game.Klaus Teuber, creator of the popular board game Catan, with his son Benjamin Teuber, a managing director at Catan Inc. The first of those games - Settlers of the Stone Age – was released in 2002 and was also set in prehistoric times, with players collecting meat, hides, bones and flint. The first player to accumulate 10 victory points win, with players achieving victory points by accomplishing certain tasks.īased on the fact that CATAN: Dawn of Humankind is set in the real world instead of the fictional island of Catan, it appears that this new game is a continuation of the CATAN Histories line of games. A common aspect of the game is the bartering of resources, as each game typically has a rare resource determined at random based on the board set-up. Those resources are then used to build more settlements, roads, or buy additional cards. The rules of the game are relatively simple – at the beginning of each turn, players receive various resources based on the location of their settlements and the roll of two six-sided dice. Originally published in 1995, CATAN (or Settlers of CATAN as it was originally titled) is one of the most popular board games of all time, having sold over 30 million copies.
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