Niantic, the creator of Pokemon GO, Ingress, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, is now creating Catan: World Explorers where players wi♎ll be allowed trade, build, and settle with others in th🍌is new .
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The revolves around five main resources that requires the player to expand their empire: wool, ore, lumber, grain, and brick. In order to build a structure the player will need a certain amount of these resources. However, some are easy to farm in one’s immediate surroundings while others will require trading with your fellow players. Exchanging these resources is at the heart of the experience and is required to build your tiny settle๊ment into a bustling city.
Ports are a major aspect of the board game, as they allow players to exchange one 💯type of resource for another, more valuable one. Depending on where the player is located in the world, some resources will be more abundant than others. This is where trading with others will come in handy.
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Invite friends or play along with strangers to earn Victory Points that will improve one’s Faction’s Global Score along with a local score𒐪. These scores determine who will be rewarded with prizes that will progress into the next season.
Fans of the board game have already by stating i﷽t will be a re-ꦚskin of Niantic’s other titles such as Pokemon: GO and Ingress. The common thread among all of Niantic’s games is that they require the player to explore their surroundings in order to interact with virtual landmarks. It works well for Pokémon GO, but re-skinning that f🐲ramework for yet another game might finally be striking a chord wi🐻th mobile gamers.
There is no set re꧅lease date for Catan: Wo♏rld Explorers, but people are encouraged to pre-register to play at launch.