Is this Niantic’s next game?

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Is this Niantic's next game?

First came Pokémon GO. Then came Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. Then came… Catan?

It's starting to look like the next property to get Niantic's "real world game" treatment will be Catan - the namesake island from the popular Settlers Of Catan board game series.

Late last month, the company behind Catan said during a board games conference in Germany that it was working on a "upcoming massively multiplayer location based game" (albeit with no mention of Niantic). Called Catan: World Explorers, they noted that it "transforms the entire Earth into one giant game of CATAN".

A website for the game has since gone up, and folks over at the Ingress subreddit (the unofficial homebase for fans of Niantic's very first title) managed to uncover a few curious breadcrumbs hiding in the source code. The official Terms of Service and Privacy Policy links both point to Niantic's servers, for example, and the page pulls in some Javascript with "Niantic" in the filename. So if Niantic wasn't involved here, someone made a bunch of super weird mistakes.

Sure enough, I've confirmed with folks at Niantic that the company is indeed involved. They won't say much about it, but confirmed to me that the game is being built on Niantic's Real World Platform.

Not sure what that means? After the launch of Pokémon GO, Niantic started focusing on taking the tools they've already built (their massive database of real world locations, the game engine, and the server architecture that makes the whole 'real world game' experience work) and opening them up for third parties to build upon. Whereas Pokémon GO was largely built within Niantic with some oversight from The Pokémon Company, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite shifted more of the workload over to



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