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Woodcut Maps

Gabe — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:43:55 +0000

Handcrafted wood-inlay maps, designed by you: woodcutmaps.com. A new art+crafts+tech+maps business in the making with Catherine Herdlick, Katie Mordarski, and Pagoda Arts.

Turf

Gabe — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:22:01 +0000

Turf is the follow-up to Old Campus Tree Risk, a strategy game set on a map of Yale campus that I ran in January 2007. We expanded to multiple campuses, greatly improved the graphics, and experimented with more real-time game designs. I worked on Turf from 2007 – 2008 with Andrew Fong, Hugo Van Vuuren, Matt O’Brien, and Lewis Zimmerman. We were funded by Y-Combinator and Harrison Metal.

The Yale Daily News: “Students hazard all in campus Risk game”

The Harvard Crimson: “Houses Compete in Bid For ‘Risk’ Supremacy”

Wall Street Journal: “Facebook Ignites Entrepreneurial Spirit at Harvard”

The game was mentioned by Bill Clinton (!) at his 2007 Harvard Class Day address.

Harvard Independent: “Winner Take All”

Stanford Daily: “StanfordTurf invades campus”

Old Campus Tree Risk

Gabe — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:58:38 +0000

A massively multiplayer web-based strategy game played on Yale Campus between January 25 and March 2, 2007. 3316 students had joined the game by the end: 62% of Yale undergraduates.

Yale Daily News: “Students hazard all in campus Risk game”

Yale Herald: “Wargamers divide and conquer Yale campus”