Monthly Archives: November 2025

Page from a wiki showing a game path
Before I started my first company, before I earned a Ph.D. , I was a judo champion. I competed for 14 years - and I was pretty good at it. I won international competitions on every continent except for Antartica and Australia, and culminated by winning the world championships. Then I went off and did something completely different - was a professor teaching statistics, then a consultant doing statistical programming. Now I'm running a company, making educational games and, more importantly, creating a platform so anyone can make educational games.

3 Ways Becoming a World Champion is Like Making a ...

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What can you make with blocks? Screenshot showing icons for 8 games
Are you an educator who wants to replace boring worksheets and workbooks with games you can make yourself, as easy as writing a blog post? Sign up for a workshop for our no-code builder. Do you teach a coding class and would like an easy way for your high school students to make games with JavaScript? Sign up for our low-code game builder workshop. Do you just want to make educational games? If you answered, "Yes", sign up for our free workshop.

Get Free Professional Development on Making Educational Games

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Game screen: Two children in front of a star quilt
Starting with the happy news. Our 7 Gen Blocks platform has made it possible for us to create games at a far faster pace and lower cost. Check out six educational games we made in the past year thanks to a grant from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program. All of these were made with 7 Gen Blocks. And those aren’t all of the games we’ve made this year.

Housecleaning, Unity Bugs and Speed Development

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