Settlers II — Web Notes from porting The Settlers II to the browser. https://settlers2.cloud/blog/ 2026-09-24T00:00:00Z Games like Settlers II, and where the genre it started went https://settlers2.cloud/blog/games-like-settlers-2/ 2026-09-24T00:00:00Z What made Settlers II's indirect-control economy different from its real-time strategy contemporaries, how the series changed after it, and where city building and RTS sit today. Return to the Roots, and Settlers II's open-source afterlife https://settlers2.cloud/blog/return-to-the-roots-and-the-open-source-afterlife/ 2026-09-24T00:00:00Z How Return to the Roots (s25client) kept Settlers II's engine documented and alive after its publisher moved on, and why that documentation is this browser port's behavioural reference. Settlers II, from 1996 to a browser tab https://settlers2.cloud/blog/settlers-2-from-1996-to-the-browser/ 2026-09-24T00:00:00Z The history of Blue Byte's 1996 economy classic The Settlers II, why it is still searched for today, and how to play a from-scratch browser reimplementation with no install. Reading 1996 archives in a browser tab https://settlers2.cloud/blog/reading-1996-archives-in-a-browser-tab/ 2026-09-04T00:00:00Z How the original Settlers II file formats — LST containers, BOB sprite sets, paletted bitmaps and SWD maps — are decoded in TypeScript and packed into a WebGL texture atlas. Determinism is the feature https://settlers2.cloud/blog/determinism-is-the-feature/ 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z Why the simulation may not read the clock, why every random number comes from one seeded generator, and what that buys — saves, replays and lockstep multiplayer.