GoCrossCampus’ origins prove Risky
In New York Times article, brains behind Old Campus Tree Risk not cited as influence
This winter, 11,000 members of the Ivy League duked it out to be named Ivy League Champion: strategizing, forming alliances, attacking and retreating. But as Yale allied itself with Columbia and attacked Long Island in the popular Yale-based online spin-off of the board game Risk — GoCrossCampus — a similar battle was quietly being waged in the real world.
While GoCrossCampus, or GXC, was enjoying its success, a company called Kirkland North was developing another online, intercollegiate Risk-style game called Turf. One of the founders of Kirkland North, Gabe Smedresman ’06, had...
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