University of Texas (UT Austin) will kick Aggie’s sorry behind! GIKI will take over and rule the LUMS campus. Or will it ? OR will FAST or will MIT finally get its graces handed to it by Harvard? With this game, teams of students from each school would be able to face off each other and finally put such questions to rest….Think of “VarHereoes” as a turn based strategy game with a social networking element. Its like Risk or Civilization or Chess even, but your opponent is your rival university. The startup has built a strategy game around this concept of defeating your rival university. Time to quit the chess club and make a “varheroes” club and put up your battle page on Facebook….

There are a few startups I have seen that have killer business models, and you tend to think “why did i not think of that?!”. Varsity Heroes is one of those. The execution is also very well done, especially the awesome graphics, and the comic based approach to explaining the game, similar to Google Chrome’s. Hassan Baig and co have done a great job so far. If this is not VC-funded, it should be!

There are already over 400 players registered on the game. Currently, the LUMS campus map is online and others are coming on shortly I hear. The Gameplay looks like civilization to a good extent. The idea is also to play it a few minutes a day while you wait for your opponent to make his move, making it very playable like scrabulous, which became popular because players loved the ability to make a move and come back after a few hours to make the next one, hence fitting it nicely into your daily schedule. A quick gameplay video below:

To learn more or to try out the game, go here : http://varheroes.com/enlist/

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