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Monthly Archives: April 2015

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from April 20, 2012,“Why Business Travelers (and Grandmas) Need an iPad” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. The rocket scientist told me that I am too one-dimensional and write too much about […]

Throwback Thursday: Why Business Travelers (and Grandmas) Need an iPad

April 30, 2015 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged business travelers / grandmas / reasons to own an iPad by AnnMaria De Mars

classroom — Did you know that we are able to offer free game licenses to classrooms in Title I schools, tribal schools, or after school programs that serve Native American students? If you know a teacher or school that could benefit from playing our adventure games, simply email us at: info@7generationgames.com A little […]

Do you know any schools, teachers or after school programs ...

April 29, 2015 in 7GenGames / Educational Games tagged donate a game / Fish Lake / Spirit Lake / Title I School by admin

sunrise — I mentioned to someone this week that if things keep up I will eventually be the worst programmer in the company. (Some of us un-cool people still call ourselves programmers instead of software developers.) She said, You’re okay with that, right? After all, you’re the CEO. For years, I said […]

CEO Doesn’t Mean Having Your Own Way

April 28, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Two of 7 Generation Games founders – our CEO AnnMaria De Mars and our CMO Maria Burns Ortiz – have have spent the last two days in Dallas at the Online Learning Consortium’s International Symposium on Emerging Technologies. It’s been a great experience as 7 Generation Games was one of […]

7 Generation Games Recognized at Emerging Technologies for Online Learning ...

April 23, 2015 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech by Maria Burns Ortiz

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from April 29, 2012,“Useless & useful advice for SOME small businesses” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. Being sick with only half of my brain cells functioning, I spent the weekend reading […]

Throwback Thursday: Useless & useful advice for SOME small businesses

April 23, 2015 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries / Throwback Thursday / Women in Tech tagged keep the rights / speak your mind / startup advice / Throwback Thursday by AnnMaria De Mars

7 Generation Games is excited to be attending the 8th Annual OLC/MERLOT Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium on April 22-24, 2015 at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas. Earlier this year, 7 Generation Games submitted their application to be apart of the Launch Pad where only 10 educational technology companies […]

Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium

April 23, 2015 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Events / Women in Tech tagged #et4online / 8th Annual OLC/MERLOT Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium / Launch Pad by admin

7 Generation Games — If this is your first visit to our website, thank you for taking the time to read our blog and let us introduce ourselves. We are a company that combines math, Native American history and adventure gaming into our video games. The video clip below demonstrates the (awesome) video games that […]

How 7 Generation Games differs from other companies

April 23, 2015 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Math / Women in Tech by admin

After a hectic three weeks, we completed a successful crowdfunding campaign! We brought in almost 110% of our target of $50,000. After so much hard work, it was time to celebrate as our staff and backers got together at Tom’s Urban at LA Live. If you want to relive the […]

7 Generation Games Celebrates Kickstarter Success

April 18, 2015 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

bad jockey on slow horse — One of the questions that came up during our Kickstarter campaign was whether it was wise to release “sneak peeks” of our game under development, whether that would, in fact, discourage people from backing us because it was less than perfect. My answer was that I believe there are several […]

Why You Shouldn’t Wait for Perfect

April 16, 2015 in AnnMaria / Dog food by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from January 21, 2013,“Things I’ve Learned in (Almost) 55 Years: Post 1 of a bunch” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. I forgot how old I was for a while. Someone […]

Throwback Thursday: Things I’ve Learned in (Almost) 55 Years: Post ...

April 16, 2015 in 7GenGames / Throwback Thursday tagged failure / permanent / perspective / Success / tact / Throwback Thursday by AnnMaria De Mars

Saint Louis, MO – Thursday, April 16th from 7-9pm at Fitz’s | 6605 Delmar Blvd, Saint Louis, MO 63130 Los Angeles, CA – Friday, April 17th from 6-8pm at Tom’s Urban | 1011 S Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015 There is no secret code and it’s free. Just show up and […]

Celebrate with us in Los Angeles and St. Louis

April 15, 2015 in 7GenGames / Events / Women in Tech tagged Kickstarter / Saint Louis / Santa Monica / St. Louis / Thank You by admin

cup cake — Think of all of the time people spend playing games on their phones, computers, Xbox. Yes, everyone. Even you. Now just imagine if all of that time added to what you knew about history, vocabulary and math. How awesome would that be? It would be this awesome. The games we […]

Why I Do What I Do

April 11, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars