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Re:Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game by npteljes on Monday August 16, 2021 @08:29AM (#28197260)
The original Settlers developer studio is also in Germany. Now it makes sense how my version was called Siedlers II.
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Re:Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game by kzrdude on Monday August 16, 2021 @02:52PM (#28201488)
And the original settlers board game - Catan - is of course also German.
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Re:Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game by morsch on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @02:41AM (#28206875)
The board game came out after the first computer game. The two are not related.
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Re:Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game by kzrdude on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @02:38PM (#28213288)
Oh.. i didn't know! Maybe the relation is still there, inverted?
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Re:Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game by morsch on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:31PM (#28213867)
According to Wikipedia, Klaus Teuber started designing the board game years before the computer game was released, so it's probably not a major source of inspiration. He did change the name (adding "of Catan") so people wouldn't mistake one for the other.
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Re:Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game by Delk on Monday August 16, 2021 @05:18PM (#28203118)
Die Siedler (the plural is the same as the singular), but yeah.
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