About
What is Colonist?
Colonist.io is a web based, free online alternative to the challenging social and strategy based board game Settlers of Catan. You take on the role of a Colonist by building a civilization and expanding your territory. Colonist combines extremely simple rules with tremendously deep gameplay. Utilize strategy, planning, and cunning negotiation to win.
The Team
Goktug Yilmaz
Esqarrouth
Co-founder, Backend, Marketing
LoL pro player in 2013. Top 1% in more than 10 games but still bad at Colonist. Top 1% on stackoverflow.
Favourite Games: Ultima Online, Age of Empires 2, Factorio
Demi Yilmaz
Demiculus
Co-founder, Frontend, Product
Mental model enthusiast, top 16 in Catan World Champ 2021.
Favourite Games: Star Kingdoms, Ultima Online, Don't Starve
Jeff d'Eon
JeffD
Game Dev, Backend
Love playing archery tag. Yes, it's as fun as it seems.
Favourite Games: Runescape, The Last of Us, Clash of Clans
Anonymous
pIayer
Quality Assurance, Product
Perfection is lots of little things done well.
Favourite Games: Super Mario World, Grand Theft Auto 2, Sonic the Hedgehog, Worms World Party
Sam Gawaran
cavite
UI/UX Designer
Top 2% at Tetr.io, Craft Beer enthusiast, love games that overwhelm me with choices.
Favourite Games: All Paradox Games, Tetris, Legend of Heroes: Trails series
Contributors
Alex Coleman Cole
Nikki
Frontend Dev Contributor
Constantly curious which makes me easily distracted. Taking my coding pastime to a new level with Colonist.
Jashin Jashua
Jashin
Frontend Dev Contributor
We do not stop playing games because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Joo Young Cheong
drizzleddice
Backend Dev Contributor
Constantly seeking to improve at everything I do.
Advisors
Kan Yilmaz
thellimist
Process Advisor - Founder of Haystack YC W21
First code contributor. Developer productivity expert. Clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Stripe, Spotify.
Anonymous
pIayer
Product Advisor
High up in Colonist leaderboards. I need Colonist mobile in my life.
How We Work
We are a modern day gaming guild whose objective is to "Make multiplayer games players want to play". Growing up we were part of online Clans, Guilds, Alliances in various MMOs & online games. We are now a part of an online Guild called Colonist
- We are fully remote
- We are output-driven and work asynchronously
- We are a hybrid between a startup and a game company
- We keep meetings at a minimum and;
- We have fun and make our game while playing it!