Social gaming club C22, with Gecko as a sponsor along with social gaming club D20, organizes a tournament in a Catan Game. The competition will be held on December 12, 2015, at the premises of a club in Narodnih Heroja St. 5-7, New Belgrade. Gecko Solutions has provided valuable prizes for best-ranked players, Good luck!
Catan is a social game published in 1995 in Germany with a title Die Siedler Von Catan. Game participants find themselves in a role of a settler on Catan Island. A player occupies fields which represent wealth (food, grain, rock and wood) needed for “building-up” their civilization. During the game, those items are used to build roads, cities and villages, and that is how a player scores points. The game is intended for 3 or more players, it is incredibly dynamic and competitive – a real treat for fans of social games.
Board game community, on a global level, consists of about ten million people. It represents a group which takes part in the role-playing game several times a week. That number rises as a frequency game played is less - at least once per week a group of ten million people takes part in some board game. The biggest board game community is in the USA and in Europe afterwards – they are more dedicated and they take games more committed. The biggest festival of social board games in Europe gathers around 150 000- 200 000 people every year. From all European countries, Germany takes the lead according to players that join in every year. In the world, there is a trend of arising of social games, especially in the new player's growth, and most of them are from eastern Europe.
The community of players began its expansion in the mid 90`s of this century. According to this, the biggest part of players consists of people from 30 to 40 years (around 45%). Rest is divided into younger and older. The current trend represents that the player's community will be younger as social games take bigger stronghold online. It is very important to mention that small groups of players give up from their hobby when they enter the 6th decade of their life. With this cooperation, Gecko company wants to be actively involved in the mainstream of board games, and to generate experience from players and create some ideas for online games also…
Photography: "Seafarers of Catan - Midgame" by Dmitrij Rodionov - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons.
