Klaus Teuber, the board game designer most well-known for making the extremely well-liked Catan, has died following a quick sickness.
Teuber’s love for board video games and their design started at age 11 when he was gifted the sport Romans vs. Carthaginians, to which he added his personal guidelines. After highschool and army service, Teuber studied chemistry and joined his father’s dental apply.
Although he initially labored as a dental technician, he discovered his ardour in tabletop recreation design. 4 of his video games gained the German Spiel des Jahres (Sport of the 12 months) Award: Barbarossa, Adel Verpflichtet, Drunter und Drüber, and Settlers of Catan. What began as a pastime blossomed right into a full profession. Teuber based the corporate Catan in 2002, which continued to supply variations and expansions of the beloved Catan recreation, resembling Rivals for Catan: Age of Enlightenment, Catan: Seafarers, and Catan: Cities & Knights.
Settlers of Catan, later rebranded as simply Catan, is presumably some of the influential board video games to be printed. The sport has acquired quite a few awards and honors past the primary Spiel des Jahres in 1995. It’s been tailored right into a video game format quite a few occasions, with releases on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo programs. The sport and Klaus Teuber himself additionally characteristic closely within the 2012 documentary Going Cardboard, which examines German-style board video games which might be cherished in America.
Teuber is survived by his sons Benjamin and Guido, his spouse Claudia, and his daughter, who’ve all been concerned within the Catan firm. The Teuber household has requested time and area to bid farewell to their cherished one.
