Catan creator Klaus Teuber has passed away at 70<p>Klaus Teuber, who created the board game sensation
Settlers of Catan, has passed away at the age of 70. According to the <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="
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official Catan website[/url], Teuber died on April 1st after a “brief and severe illness.” He is survived by his wife Claudia and their two sons, Guido and Benny, all of which are involved with publisher Catan Studios.</p><p>It is hard to do justice to how important
Catan was (and is) to the board game space. Teuber invented the multiplayer resource-trading game in 1995 and is one of the first European board games to achieve massive success throughout the rest of the world. As of 2020, over 32 million copies of
Catan in 40 different languages have been sold globally.</p><span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><div id="d99b0406310b45fe8e35363b64bf38c9"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="
https://www.youtube.com/embed/niTSTcZkriA" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p>It’s not just board games. The popularity of
Catan has allowed for multiple digital versions available for smartphones, video game consoles and PCs. The game has also left quite a pop culture footprint, inspiring countless references in media properties like
The Big Bang Theory, Parks and Recreation, Supergirl and
South Park. It even inspired a short film in 2014,
The Lord of Catan, starring Amy Acker. There have also been rumors of a forthcoming Sony-produced feature film floating around since 2015.</p><p>Teuber may be best known for creating
Catan, but the designer also had his hand in many popular board games like
Barbarossa, Wacky Wacky Wacky and more. All told, he won the Game of the Year award a whopping four times. Not bad for a former dental technician who didn’t even begin developing games seriously until the 1990s, when he was in his 40s.</p><p>“I developed games to escape,” he told <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:The New Yorker;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="
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The New Yorker in 2014[/url]. “This was my own world I created.”</p><div id="6281eb6d142d42a7911ab7b250c976a1"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It is with profound sadness that we at CATAN Studio acknowledge the passing of Klaus Teuber, legendary game designer and creator of the beloved board game CATAN. Our hearts go out to Klaus' family during this incredibly difficult time.
pic.twitter.com/gPPIVtleHJ</p>— CATAN - Official (@settlersofcatan)
April 4, 2023</div><p>Teuber also founded publisher Catan Studios, which posted a memorial tweet today urging the title’s many fans to honor his impact on the world of gaming by “being kind to one another” and pursuing their dreams to the fullest.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at
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Catan creator Klaus Teuber has passed away at 70
