Team camaraderie is especially important in today's business world. The importance of team work can never be understated or underestimated; by banding together people can create great works of art, science, literature, or philosophy. To increase group mentality and a sense of same-sidedness, it is important to create ways of being together. Not surprisingly, students understand well the importance of growing together and consequently create ways of building team consensus. One student business found a way to not only make team building fun, but addictive.


GoCrossCampus, a business ran by a group at Yale students (Brad Hargreaves, Matthew O. Brimer, Sean Mehra, Jeffrey Reitman, and Isaac Silverman) have created the perfect game. GoCrossCampus takes advantage of location and your organization:

"GoCrossCampus is a team-based social gaming platform that revolves around your connections, locations and interests. Any team of people can play, whether it's rival dorms battling across a college campus, employees competing in an exciting corporate team-building tournament, or even supporters of presidential candidates in an great political bash. GoCrossCampus has been phenomenally successful in its private beta launch, and the company is continuing to expand rapidly, developing its brand and software into a groundbreaking new multi-platform team-based social gaming destination."

By playing a game together two opposing yet similar parties can have fun and build team work while increasing competitiveness. GoCrossCampus focuses on networking with people you already know using a digital platform. When at home or at work (which might certainly be a potential negative or positive), players will be able to play together with their friends, associates as either part of the same team or the opposing team. The implications are far-reaching for building a fun factor into a serious-minded organization or just one between a number of friends at school.

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