If your school is currently involved in a game, of course! Most often, you just need an [school].edu email address address. Register a new account and see if there are any games on the Browse Games page that you can join. GoCrossCampus is currently in private beta form, which means that we’re only on certain campuses. But that will most certainly change soon. If you’d like to see us on your campus sooner, let us know. We'd be happy to set a game up for you :)

GoCrossCampus can be a very simple game. Each day, you will receive new armies. You will need to place these armies on a territory your team owns. If you wish, you can then command your armies to attack, defend or move. That’s all the essential stuff. There’s a lot more you can do, but you’ll figure all that out in time (by reading the rules, asking a teammate, or playing around with the site).

Right now, the only games open are for students and alumni of selected universities. However, that will be changing soon. If your organization wants to play, let us know.

GoCrossCampus games are meant to connect to people who share an affinity. In other words, it’s not so much about the game as it’s about the people who play it. We will eventually have games that anyone can play, but for right now we’re keeping each game tight-knit and private. So if you go to RPI, you can play the RPI game. If you’re in the Ivy League (or an alum), you can play the Ivy League Championship. We have games for many new schools in the pipeline. If you want a game at your school, let us know.

To start, get in touch with us. From there, the process is highly secretive :-P.

Contact us. We’re not a big, evil corporation, so we will give you credit if you come up with something new and we use it!

Some games, such as most inter-campus games, have a big disparity in team size. For all other games, skip down a bit.

For games with a large disparity in team size:

For all other games:

No. So think carefully! However, you can change your orders as many times as you like.

Check out the rules. We explain it in detail there.

Yes. All army move orders are executed first, and once executed, all armies will be given defend orders in their new home region.

No. Attacking armies are too busy attacking!

Yes. Once an attacking army conquers a territory, it will defend its new home territory.

No. you have to conquer and hold a territory in order to get the bonus.

No, these troops would not engage each other. If the attackers from Territory B defeat the defenders in Territory A, they take over Territory A regardless of whether or not Territory A is also attacking Territory B. Thus, it is entirely possible for those teams to "swap" territories. So watch your supply lines and make sure to defend the territory you are attacking from if a counterattack is a possibility!

They could be 00 secret agents from MI-6. Or people like Jason Bourne. Most likely though, they’re people on your campus who joined a team different from the one they belong to and are secretly collecting intelligence and sharing it with their real team.

Vigilance. Counter-intelligence. Kicking off anyone who has a significant other on another team, perhaps? Sex and battlefield strategy don’t mix.

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Sorry about that. We try to make games go as smoothly as possible. Each game is administered by students at the college in which it’s being played. We’ll try to get it sorted out, although in general we don’t replay turns or give bonuses to correct for an earlier problem.

Consider it a part of war. Don’t wait until 15 minutes before shooting starts before issuing orders. The hour before a turn ends is extremely busy, and you’re risking it if you’re waiting until the last minute to place your units.

We at GoCrossCampus believe that most mainstream social networks have been doing it all wrong. Rather than just aggregating networks of people, object-centered social networks focus on a reason for people to congregate and then provide the infrastructure for a high-value social network to form. Dating sites have known this for years, and Facebook seems to be figuring it out.

Each game is administered by students at the college in which it’s being played. However, the games are developed and hosted by GoCrossCampus. GXC is an online gaming company started by a couple of Yale students and one Columbia student in early 2007. To find out more, check out the About Us section.

Right now, we're concerned more with creating the best game we possibly can than with making a quick buck. As you can see, GoCrossCampus is a completely ad-free environment, and it costs absolutely nothing to play. We want GXC to be as open and friendly as possible, and that's why we'll never charge you to play our game. In the future, we might incorporate some in-game branding opportunities, but for now we just want people to play!

Second Life and World of Warcraft are immersive, graphically intense 3-D worlds set in a fantasy universe. They're awesome, but they do kind of encourage you to sit at home in your basement for 18 hours a day self-identifying with an armored orc or a punk rocker when you're really just a friendless dweeb. No offense, but we really think you should be doing something more sociable with your time. And that's where we come in! GoCrossCampus is a casual game, so it won't take over your life. It's also a social game set in the real world, played by the people in your social network. Plus, there's no crazies!

There's this big quad at Yale called "Cross Campus," and we liked the connection and alliteration of the name. Unfortunately, the person squatting the CrossCampus.com domain name refused to sell for anything less than a six-digit sum. So, we figured it couldn't hurt to tack on a "Go" to the name, and voila: "GoCrossCampus" was born. We actually think it works better than just "CrossCampus." Plus, won't that domain squatter be sorry now!

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Robots.

Roads? Where we're going, we don't need... roads.

Dammit, you figured us out.