Klaus Teuber, a former dental technician in Germany who began designing board games as an after-work hobby before creating the hugely popular realm of Catan, died April 1 at 70.
) that has players competing to rebuild a razed town. All three, plus Catan, won Germany’s Game of the Year award.
The name has no special or hidden meaning. For fans, however, Catan came to represent a concept for friendly competition and coexistence. Events bringing more than 1,000 players have been held in Rotterdam, and other sites. Unlike the win-or-lose Scrabble or chess tournaments, the Catan crowds try to cultivate something of a feel-good spirit. A 2012, “Going Cardboard,” shows Mr. Teuber getting a rock-star reception at game conventions.
, developed partly in response to Catan, has supernatural forces protecting an island from newcomers., an Indiana University professor who studies tabletop games and military simulations, wrote in an email to The Post. “We have started to wonder if indeed the relatively peaceful settling in the game does not hide a colonialist and imperialistic fantasy.”“The beauty of Catan is that, in the end, you still have constructed something,” said Mr. Teuber’s son, Benjamin. “So, in a way, everybody wins.
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