Games That Make You Smarter

AnnMaria De Mars

buffalo — Let’s cut to the chase : No product is perfect. Sometimes people are ignorant or jerks or ignorant jerks. Our games are awesome. You should buy them. We are still always working on making them better (yes, you get free updates for life). To give you an example of how […]

You Should Buy Our Imperfect Games & Quit Telling Us ...

January 19, 2017 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Jessie — Brief background We are working on a game with the Circle of Life substance abuse program on the Fort Berthold Reservation that will be used to help people change problem situations in their lives. The general theory behind it is Motivational Interviewing. Since the application will be used by people […]

Analyzing your emotions with your iPhone (& jQuery)

January 14, 2017 in AnnMaria / Code Talk / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Kid on computer — Every Wednesday, we’ll be providing you three resources to teach a concept that teachers and parents have found requires a little more practice. Today’s resources are on introducing fractions. One of the times I knew I married the right man is when our then very young daughter asked my husband, “Daddy, what […]

Free, fun and starting fractions: Three resources to help you ...

January 11, 2017 in 7GenGames by AnnMaria De Mars

hunter sprite — This is part 7 in a series on making games with impact.js game library. For a list of the first 6 parts, scroll to the bottom of this post. So far, we’ve set up our computer to have a local server and created a background layer. That’s the most […]

Making games with impact: Part 7 adding a character

January 10, 2017 in AnnMaria / Code Talk by AnnMaria De Mars

Chuck Zito and AnnMaria — People often imagine life at a start-up as being more exciting than it actually is. Many hours are spent debugging code, balancing budgets or in meetings with investors. Friday, however, was one of those days that lived up to the hype. Maria and I do a sort of weekly podcast […]

Chuck Zito, Start-ups and Hells Angels

January 8, 2017 in AnnMaria / podcast / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

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Hello, random person from the interwebz. I would like your opinion on game violence and how much or little is appropriate. Some background … While we began making educational video games to teach math and social studies, we have received numerous requests from teachers, counselors and parents to branch out. […]

Want your opinions on game violence

January 2, 2017 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

background with trees and bushes — Obviously from the name, this is the sixth in a series on making games with the library, impact.js . Now that we have a background, let’s start putting in some trees and bushes. (For the first 5 parts, scroll to the bottom.) We’re going to create a new layer of […]

Making games with impact: Part 6 – the stamp

January 2, 2017 in AnnMaria / Code Talk by AnnMaria De Mars

background with sky and grass — If you missed the first four posts in this series, you can find them here: Part 1 – Getting started Part 2 – Setting up impact Part 3 – Firing up the world master Part 4 – Permission to make games Woo-hoo you have opened up the weltmeister and you […]

Making Games with impact.js : Part 5 Creating the background

January 1, 2017 in AnnMaria / Code Talk by AnnMaria De Mars

Get info screen — This is part 4 of a series on making games with impact.js . Don’t be a smart ass and skip this part. You might be able to open the weltmeister.html and start a game but you won’t be able to save it unless you have permission. Part 1 Part 2 […]

Making games with impact.js : Part 4, Permission to Make ...

December 30, 2016 in AnnMaria / Code Talk by AnnMaria De Mars

white bar part way across black screen — This is part 3 of a series on making games with impact.js. You can find part 2 here. Part 1 is here. First of all, for those who dived into this series at part 3, I want to caution you that by impact I mean the game library, impact.js which […]

Making Computer Games with Impact : Part 3 Firing up ...

December 29, 2016 in AnnMaria / Code Talk by AnnMaria De Mars

dead guy with buffalo — This is the second post in a series on how to make games with impact.js . You can find the first post here. I know you are getting all excited about making computer games and I am telling you about boring stuff like the file structure – what directories you […]

Learn to make Computer Games: Part 2, Setting Up Impact

December 27, 2016 in AnnMaria / Code Talk / Tech Tips by AnnMaria De Mars