MSN's Catan Preview Hits Gen Con Indy

Klytus writes "GamingReport.com has posted news that Microsoft plans a preview for all Gen Con attendees of their new online, web-based version of the popular board game "Settlers of Catan". Originally announced back in February, this will be the first look at Microsoft's version of Catan, which will 'debut this winter exclusively at MSN Games', and will offer attendees playable demos and unveiling of the CatanOnline website."

Comments

Re:Yay

[RedHat Rocky]

There is already a clone project going, I wonder how long that will stay under the radar.

Settlers is a great game, but I see a lot being left out in an online verions. Player interaction is the key element that makes it fun.

Wood for sheep? Any one give me wood for sheep?

School Project

[redune45]

I read this article and I am surprisingly pleased. Last semester in my Software Engineering class the whole class was assigned the task to write Settler's of Catan. It was a very enjoyable project and the end result was quite fun to play.

I can't wait until Microsoft releases this to see how they dealt with the many difficult game decisions that have to be made.