Lionheart (game)

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Lion Heart
Game data
author Klaus Teuber
graphic Franz Vohwinkel
publishing company Goldsieber (1997),
Rio Grande Games ,
Kosmos (2003),
Mayfair Games ,
999 Games ,
Tilsit Editions ,
Piatnik ,
Editrice Giochi
Publishing year 1997, 2003
Art Board game
Teammates 2 to 4
Duration 60 - 90 minutes
Age from 12 years

Awards

Edition from 1997:
* German Games Prize 1997: 1st place
* Game of the Year 1997: Selection list
Edition from 2003:
* Spiel der Spiele 2003: Spiele Hit (games with friends)
* German Games Prize 2003: 5th place
* Swiss Games Prize 2003 Freakspiele: 1st place
* International Gamers Award 2003: nominated

Löwenherz is a game by Klaus Teuber that he developed in collaboration with Reiner Müller and the joint company TM-Spiele . It appeared in 1997 with the subtitle The Limits of Power at Goldsieber and was awarded the German Games Prize . In 2003 the Franckh Kosmos publishing house published a revised new edition with the subtitle The King Returns .

development

The idea for Lionheart - The Limits of Power came about while developing the game The Settlers of Catan . Since Klaus Teuber, originally developed as a colonization game, in which an island should first be discovered and settled and territorial disputes arise, appeared too complex and too material-intensive for publication, he divided the game into three separate games. He put the third part, from which Lionheart arose, on hold. The discovery part appeared in 1996 as explorer , the middle part, the settlement as The Settlers of Catan as early as 1995.

Löwenherz won the German Games Prize in the year of publication and was on the selection list for Game of the Year .

In 2003 it appeared as the Lionheart - The King Returns, which alludes to the long absence of Richard I. "Lionheart" , with a changed design and streamlined rules at Kosmos, as well as a PC game at Dartmoor-Softworks and as an online version in the Catan Online World. The Kosmos edition was awarded 5th place at the German Games Prize 2003.

Translations

Under the name “Domaine”, an English translation was first published by Rio Grande Games and later by Mayfair Games with the addition “Land, Wealth, Power. Prestigious". A Dutch translation was published under the name “Leeuwenhart” by 999 Games and a French translation as “Richard Coeur de Lion” was published by Tilsit Editions . All are translations of the 2003 edition.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Gustav Bartschat: In the sign of the hexagon . Catan GmbH 2005, p. 13.