Matthew O. Brimer, Yale ’09, invites us all to play a Yale-alumni-team version of his company’s online computer game GoCrossCampus. Click on the thumbnail image below to see the invitation.
GoCrossCampus is profiled today (March 21) in the New York Times: “The game, a riff on classic territorial-conquest board games like Risk, may be the next Internet phenomenon to emerge from the computers of college students…GXC teams, made up of hundreds and sometimes thousands of players, play on behalf of real-world dorms or schools—even presidential candidates—by jostling for hegemony on maps of their campus or locale and conducting their campaigns as much in the real world as online.”
A Google product manager who is an advisor to the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute “views it as similar to software like Google Calendar and Google Docs–tools that enhance real-world collaboration. ‘Rather than isolating us in an online world, it enhances our interactions in the real world,'” the article says.
For the complete Times piece, click here.
To visit the Yale Alumni Tournament signup page (complete with current team standings!), click here or visit www.gocrosscampus.com.