
The company's next big success followed in 1993 with the release of the managerial game Die Siedler, marketed internationally as The Settlers.
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Inspired by the Japanese game Nectaris for the PC Engine, Battle Isle spawned numerous add-ons and sequels, such as the World War I game History Line: 1914-1918. Blue Byte's first big success in Germany and Europe was the turn-based strategy game Battle Isle, completed in 1991. īlue Byte's first published game was the tennis simulation Great Courts, released in 1989 by Ubi Soft (later renamed Ubisoft). To do so, Hertzler and Schmitt used a starting capital of 10,000 Deutsche Mark borrowed from Hertzler's parents and established an office in the attic of Hertzler's home in Mülheim. In 1988, Thomas Hertzler and Lothar Schmitt left Rainbow Arts, a German video game developer, and founded their own, Blue Byte, in October that year. History Foundation and first games (1988–1993) By 2020, the "Blue Byte" name was phased out.

Since 2019, Ubisoft Blue Byte acts as the parent company of Ubisoft's three German studios, which became branded as Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Mainz and Ubisoft Berlin.

Related Designs was merged into Blue Byte in 2013, and a third studio in Berlin was established in 2018. The studio was acquired by Ubisoft in 2001. It was founded in October 1988 by Thomas Hertzler and Lothar Schmitt as a developer and was best known for developing the Anno and The Settlers series. Ubisoft Blue Byte GmbH ( Blue Byte until 2017) is a German video game holding company owned by Ubisoft.
