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Yearly Archives: 2026

Yesterday, our country paused for Veterans Day to recognize the courage, dedication, and sacrifice of those who have served and continue to serve in the armed forces. At 7 Generation Games, we extend our deepest gratitude to all veterans. During Native American Heritage Month, it feels especially fitting to shine […]

Honoring the First Warriors: Remembering Dr. Erich Longie & All ...

November 12, 2026 in Cultural content tagged Native American heritage month by Julia De Mars

n. Second, I'm working on coming up with prompts which will give you an almost complete game design. You can see my first attempt below, either as a six-minute video discussing the prompt and where it did and didn't work, or skip to the bottom and read the prompt.

In Search of the Perfect Game Design Prompt

November 11, 2026 in 7Gen Blocks / 7GenGames / Game Design by AnnMaria De Mars

Screen shot on making a splash screen — Note: All posts are written 100% by me. The only AI is the AnnMaria Intelligence. We’ve made it possible for people to create games to teach content they want to share, no coding required. Our very early beta was about five months ago and THANK YOU to everyone who attended […]

Easier doesn’t mean easy: Making games better

November 10, 2026 in Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Honoring Indigenous History, Culture, and Storytelling All Month Long and Beyond November is National Native American Heritage Month- a time dedicated to celebrating the rich histories, diverse cultures, and contributions of Indigenous peoples past and present. At 7 Generation Games, celebrating Native history isn’t just something we do for 30 […]

Celebrating Native American Heritage Month: Classroom resources, games, and so ...

November 9, 2026 in Cultural content / Educational Games tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / Educational Resources / newsletter / Teacher Resources by Julia De Mars

Screen of images to choose from for a farm game — Once the need for coding is eliminated, the big time suck in making educational games is the need for artwork

A Small Change to Creating Educational Games that is Making ...

November 5, 2026 in 7Gen Blocks tagged 7 Gen Blocks / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Hey everyone, it’s Day of the Dead. For those who observe and celebrate the holiday, you would have already seen ofrendas (altars) or calaveras (skulls) around your community in public spaces or built your own private one at home. For those that don’t know, Día de los Muertos (Day of […]

Celebrate Day of the Dead With Us

November 2, 2026 in Bilingual Education / Cultural content tagged Cultural Content / Day of the Dead / Día de los Muertos by Diana Sanchez

We just wrapped up our first Unblocked! competition for games built with our 7 Gen Blocks game builder. First of all, massive thanks to all who entered. This is an early version of the game builder and we are adding features on a weekly basis. Anyone who tries our game […]

The Secrets to Making Educational Games That Actually Work

October 6, 2026 in 7Gen Blocks / Educational Games tagged Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Screen shot on making a splash screen — Howdy! If you're here, you probably came to the presentation at AATC. If you missed it, here are the links anyway.

All the Links from AATC & MSU: Find them here

September 29, 2026 in Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

What’s the importance of being bilingual? I’ve often thought about my answer to that question and have had discussions about it. To me personally, being Mexican-American and bilingual is extremely important. Knowing the Spanish language is what allows me to communicate with my family. I can communicate with not only […]

The Importance of Being Bilingual

September 28, 2026 in Bilingual Education / Cultural content tagged Bilingual / Hispanic Heritage Month by Diana Sanchez

laundry room with several cardboard boxes — Sometimes AI works quickly and that's awesome. I'm even giving a paper on uses of AI at the SRAI conference in Hawaii and another the AISES conference in Portland, Oregon, both in October. It's called "Uses of Generative AI in research administration: The good, the bad and the ugly." I'm talking about the good, so I am not an AI hater. However, when AI doesn't give the correct answer on the first or second shot, I have found it to invariably be faster to forget AI and solve the issue without it. As far as the claim that generative AI has "Ph.D. level intelligence". If you measure that by whether a person has an actual Ph.D. , I have Ph.D. level intelligence and the score today is: Me: 1 , AI: 0

Me vs. AI Debugging Challenge

August 28, 2026 in AnnMaria / blogposts / Code Talk / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

See How a Complete Educational Game is Built in Minutes! If you’ve been curious about how our 7 Gen Blocks game builder works and how a concept in your head becomes a fully functional, playable video game- you’re just in time! Last Friday, we released a brand-new, asynchronous pre-recorded webinar […]

🎥 Available Now: Watch me build a game from scratch!

August 19, 2026 in 7Gen Blocks tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games by Julia De Mars

standard poodle sitting in chair — Crowd-sourcing my marketing plan I call it crowd-sourcing. Maria calls it asking random people on the internet. I’m going to run down my such-as-it-is marketing plan. Feel free to comment. Please do not contact me about your services as a marketing specialist at $800 an hour.

I do my marketing thinking out loud

July 18, 2026 in Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars