dub3 card · www.travian.de
Travian (2004)
One small village, four resources, and a great many neighbours with armies.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 4
- Rarity
- Epic
- Family
- Games
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
Ongoing: +2 Power to your other Web 2.0 cards here.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 4 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Games cards roll the dice. Sometimes the dice roll you.
The site, in 2004
A browser strategy game set in classical antiquity: you start with one village of Romans, Gauls or Teutons and grow it by farming, building and raiding.
Written by Munich chemistry student Gerhard Müller, it was translated into over 40 languages and once claimed over 5 million players on more than 300 servers. It won the 2006 Superbrowsergame Award for large games.
In 2004: Released in June as Müller's PHP hobby project, in German only; a second version followed in March 2005.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2004 page.
Put it on your site
Run Travian, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2004, then plays a short scene. Want Travian in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
