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Co-operative Settlers of Catan

Settlers of Catan meets M.U.L.E. in Seize Life! describes a M.U.L.E.-inspired variant of Catan where players must co-operate and win together:Settlers of Catan--> In M.U.L.E. the player are all in coopertition, cooperative competition. They are colonists trying to make good...

Posted by Mikko on June 1, 2008 12:20 PM

Thursday session: Catan, Modern Art

Our Thursday sessions continue to be quiet. Well, three is enough! We started with Fairy Tale, as usual, but this game was unusual! I was doing well, I got all three of those eight-point "get two of the other...

Posted by Mikko on November 2, 2007 12:14 PM

Catan World Championships

The Catan World Championships were played in Essen last week. The new world champion of Settlers of Catan is Markus Nuopponen from Finland. Markus won three out of the four games in the first rounds and kicked butt in the...

Posted by Mikko on October 27, 2006 12:30 PM

Elasund

Finnish review of Elasund. Elasund--> Elasund is the latest Catan spinoff. Players are building the first city in Catan, trying to reap glory by getting their buildings to fill the city. The game has surface similarities to Catan - the...

Posted by Mikko on August 25, 2006 7:06 AM

New games

Got Elasund and Farlander from Tactic. Both are interesting games in their own way. Elasund Farlander--> Elasund is, of course, the latest game in the Catan franchise. The Catan basics are there (die roll for resource production, building to ten...

Posted by Mikko on August 10, 2006 7:01 PM

Travian

I'm somewhat hooked on Travian. It's a German multi-user online game you can play using just a browser. Let's see if it sounds familiar: players farm their hexagon-shaped fields, producing a variety of resources: wood, bricks, iron and wheat. These...

Posted by Mikko on January 15, 2006 8:24 AM

Saturday, day three: Crowds and games

Last day of the fair! Sunday would be a definite no, since we have to leave for the airport before the fair actually opens. At the breakfast, there were a lot more people than before - the first sign of...

Posted by Mikko on October 16, 2005 8:41 AM

Ropecon

Ropecon 2005 is approaching fast. It's the biggest roleplaying event in Finland and boasts a wide variety of board game events. There's the Finnish Championships of Catan and Carcassonne, where the winners get to go to Essen to represent Finland...

Posted by Mikko on July 14, 2005 9:57 AM

Gone Fishing, Catan, Niagara

A bunch of games played recently: I played a game of Gone Fishing! with Johanna on Friday. She proved to be a superior fisher. Of 31 possible fish points, she got 26. I fished after her, so I could tally...

Posted by Mikko on March 13, 2005 11:36 AM

Settlers of Catan outselling Monopoly in the Netherlands

Gameblogger tells a rumour about Settlers of Catan outselling Monopoly in the Netherlands last year. If that's true, it's certainly good news. Even with the Finnish Catan now out, I wouldn't bet on that happening in Finland. Monopoly Settlers of...

Posted by Mikko on September 19, 2004 7:43 PM

Finnish Game of the Year 2004: Carcassonne

Carcassonne wins the Finnish Game of the Year 2004 award. As we all know, Settlers of Catan didn't make it, not even to the finals. However, it got a special mention as an interesting, new kind of game. So basically,...

Posted by Mikko on September 16, 2004 3:46 PM

Carcassonne vs Settlers of Catan - winner is clear

As I mentioned in an earlier entry, Finnish Game of the Year awards are very interesting this year as both Carcassonne and Settlers of Catan are competing for the award. Well, looks like that competition is already done: Catan didn't...

Posted by Mikko on August 7, 2004 11:42 PM

New Finnish game store online

Lautapelit.fi (lautapelit is Finnish for board games), a new Finnish online game store opened it's web site yesterday. It's still bit unfinished, but it should work already. It's run by the folks behind Safe Haven. I think it's pretty neat....

Posted by Mikko on July 2, 2004 9:05 AM

Games keep coming my way

Even though I don't have any money to buy games, I keep getting them by other means. Looks like I'll get a copy of Alan Moon's Ticket to Ride to translate. That'll be interesting, because I'm intrigued about the game....

Posted by Mikko on March 30, 2004 5:39 PM

Online Catan

There is going to be a new way to play Settlers of Catan online, when Microsoft releases it's online Catan game. Mayfair Games released a press release yesterday announcing the deal. Settlers of Catan is becoming seriously big.Settlers of Catan-->...

Posted by Mikko on February 18, 2004 1:56 PM

Online Settlers of Catan

S3D Connector was recommended to me as a good online version of Settlers of Catan. If you're interested in that kind of action, go check it out.Settlers of Catan-->...

Posted by Mikko on February 6, 2004 7:59 AM

Game studies

The game studies group meeting went well. My talk was rather unstructured, but hopefully someone got something of it. There were about eight people there, some of which were already quite familiar with board games. Different point of views, though....

Posted by Mikko on May 10, 2003 10:38 AM