This article by Michael Krimmer originally appeared in DP 05 : 2010. There are not many successful German games developers who survived the boom years of the 80s and still regularly bring titles to market today. One veteran of the German games studio sector is Blue Byte. And this studio is still successfully developing games 22 years after it was founded. Blue Byte, founded in 1988 by former employees of the German studio Rainbow Arts in Mülheim an der Ruhr via Blue Byte GmbH, specialised in the development of strategy games and simulations from the very beginning. The first major success was the tennis simulation "Pro Tennis Tour" from 1989, which sold a good 500,000 copies in total. This was followed by such successful titles as "Battle Isle", which made its debut in 1991 and received a total of two sequels. However, none of Blue Byte's many titles were as successful as the first version of "The Settlers", which was launched in 1993. To date, more than 8,000,000 copies of The Settler...
Hello Stranger!
This article is exclusively for Digital Production Subscribers.
If you are already subscribed, please log in below,
if you aren't subscribed, What are you waiting for?
Subscribers get
exclusive access to many articles like the one you just wanted to read,
can directly contact the authors or the newsroom,
can download many cool things from the archives,
support one of the last independent platforms weithout an "Algorithm"
and are granted exclusive bragging rights for being a better person!
Get an overview on what's available here, and access everything on the site!
If you need another reason,
here is a picture of the editorial cat,
which you'll be supporting as well!
