The college version of the board game Risk. The game GoCrossCampus also known as GXC is an online game that was developed by a group of current and former Yale students. H
ow it works is a group of students from various schools battle for territory on a map of a college campus, anything from a grassy area or a dining hall or dormitory building. They are trying to create a team based social gaming. As a start-up they raised $1 million in venture capital.
There ideas came from a desire to fuel team and school spirit against other colleges and universities. As well as against affinity groups, ultimately taking sports and college rivalries beyond the playing field or classroom test scores and onto every students laptop.
From the reviews to the left you can see that the appeal to this has grown beyond the appeal of college campuses. Professional businesses has found this as an interesting way to create some fun in the work place and some friendly competition. They currently have three functioning games that are available on their website and allow collaboration across laptop users.
I would spend all of my time on this game and never want to do school. This gives a campus more purpose and energy than ever. We all “love” Fortnight, but it has no real world applications. I think these “real world” platformed games have so much more quality and fun. You see, how many people would fight over the gym or the SAC on campus?? I sure would be
This type of game seems to have the similar potential as PokemonGo. It created an interactive game for people to go out and compete outside the normal realms of athletic events or test scores.
This is a really cool idea. It adds a whole new way to compete on and between school campuses.