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Monthly Archives: November 2014

Spirit Lake: The Game — Have you ever wanted to be involved in the creation of a video game? Well, here is your chance! We are very excited to have just finished a brand new demo version of Spirit Lake: The Game. If you are interested in playing our demo before we release it to the general public, […]

Want to become an official game tester for Spirit Lake: ...

November 30, 2014 in 7GenGames / Educational Games tagged Test Demo / Testing Demo / Video Game Testing by admin

girl picking flowers in meadow — They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. So, I thought today I would show you how Fish Lake is progressing from the alpha version to a soon-to-be-released beta version. This is what our Fish Lake start page was. And this is what it will be after I finish […]

Two pictures are worth 2,000 words: Progress on Fish ...

November 29, 2014 in AnnMaria / Dog food / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

One of our main goals at 7 Generation Games is to make math useful and practical. How many times have you been in a real life situation where someone runs in the room and yells, “Hurry up, tell me what is the answer to 6 x 8? You have two seconds […]

Small Business Saturday: Support Family-Owned Businesses (Like 7 Generation Games!)

November 29, 2014 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Events tagged Christmas Gift / Common Core / Donate / Shop Local / Small Business Saturday by admin

I spent half of Thanksgiving and a good bit of the rest of the week working on improvements in our free demo. Why? Why would someone do all that work just to give it away? Erich Longie, our lead cultural consultant, would say it’s because he has had a good […]

Why Freebie Friday instead of Black Friday?

November 28, 2014 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday by AnnMaria De Mars

Here at my internship I have been assigned quite a few tasks to help out the 7 Generation Games team. One of my assignments has been to go through various educational sites and rate them for other 7 Generation Game employees. While I have come across some great sites, I get […]

5 Other Math Games We Like

November 26, 2014 in 7GenGames by AnnMaria De Mars

7 Generation Games — We are pleased to present a demo of our Spirit Lake game that you may freely download. This demo consists of a portion of the first level of Spirit Lake. It omits some introductory material and stops midway through the first level. It also includes examples from the set of […]

How To Play Spirit Lake: The Demo

November 25, 2014 in 7GenGames tagged 7 Generation Games / Spirit Lake by eric

7GenBanner — These are comments from actual educators. I’m a vegan. I could never buy a game that has shooting deer in it. Couldn’t you have the Indians make friends with the deer instead? We could never use your game in our school because it involves shooting animals. We could never […]

Don’t Know Much About History … (Or, why our games ...

November 25, 2014 in AnnMaria / Cultural content by AnnMaria De Mars

The evening of Wednesday, November 19, our CEO went to LAX to pick up her daughter Ronda Rousey from her returning flight from Las Vegas. On their way out to car, TMZ stopped both Dr. AnnMaria and Ronda Rousey for a math pop quiz. Since 7 Generation Games creates educational […]

Dr. AnnMaria, CEO of 7 Generation Games, featured on ...

November 21, 2014 in 7GenGames tagged Ronda Rousey signed 50 of these photos last night.. so far 27 of them have been reserved for fans. Want one? Here's how to get yours: bit.ly/rowdynewyear by admin

It’s Friday and here’s your freebie from 7 Generation Games. We’ve notice that there isn’t a lot of Native America clip art that is available for teachers, which is why we have included this package for you to use for free. More specifically, the artwork depicted here is based on […]

Freebie Friday: Native American Clip Art

November 21, 2014 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged Chippewa / Clip Art / Dakota / Free / Ojibwa / Ojibwe / Sioux by admin

When our CEO, Dr. AnnMaria De Mars, went to pick up her daughter Ronda Rousey at LAX airport, TMZ was there. The camera man had prepared some math questions in an attempt to stump the founder of our math video game company. Instead, she taught him a thing or two. […]

Our CEO Schools TMZ Camera Guy in Math as She ...

November 21, 2014 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

7 Generation Games Blog — “Why do you care about math so much?” As a volunteer, I spend a lot of time with middle school and high school students, and this is the question I get asked the second most often. (The most common question I get is “What is the hardest part about […]

Why Do You Care About Math So Much?

November 19, 2014 in AnnMaria / Math by AnnMaria De Mars

Join us on January 3, 2015 for our tweetup in Las Vegas. Although Ronda Rousey’s fight was rescheduled an will no longer be held at UFC 182, we’ve decided to continue with our original plan to host the tweetup right before the fights. We know a lot of people already purchased tickets for the […]

Join us for our Rowdy New Year tweetup in Vegas ...

November 19, 2014 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Events tagged armbar nation / donate a game / educational video games / Las Vegas / MGM UFC 182 / Ronda Rousey / tweetup by admin