If you are an old friend (or stalker), you probably know that I attended Washington University in St. Louis, where I was first introduced to the Central Limit Theorem, and frat parties. Coming full circle, I’ll be back in the old neighborhood on December 29th for a 7 Generation Games […]
AnnMaria De Mars
Are you a Ronda Rousey fan? Well, then, there are five reasons you might want to get a game this week. Anyone who purchases a game in December will get a free license for the beta version of Forgotten Trail thrown in as a bonus. Ronda makes a cameo appearance […]
5 Reasons Ronda Rousey Fans (and others) want Fish Lake
In our developers’ meeting last week, Dave asked why we were using video to teach math concepts when research shows that’s the least effective method of learning. Someone else asked a very similar question this week. I’ve heard hundreds of times that “research shows” lecturing is a terrible way to […]
Things We Know That Are Not So: Lectures Don’t Suck ...
1 We’d like you to be part of our development. We really would. Even when it doesn’t seem like it at the moment. There’s a reason that we started putting our game developers’ meetings on line . We started a “tourist visa program” for people to be able to drop in as […]
Be Part of the Tech Story
We had our weekly game developers’ meeting yesterday and were extremely lucky to have a stellar cast of visitors drop in; best-selling author Derek Landy, star programmer Dave Taylor and our favorite Pokemon moderator of all time, Ronda Rousey. Prior to the meeting, our marketing staff had requested, “Since this […]
It’s an Early Adopter Discount, Not a Late Majority Discount
Ever wonder what goes into making video games? Here’s your chance to find out. 7 Generation Games is opening up one of its game development meetings on December 16,2015 at 12:30 pm Pacific Standard Time, so that you can come check out what goes into creating virtual worlds, making ideas a […]
What REALLY goes on at our game design meetings?
4 I’ve been out and about a lot lately, from Minot to Fort Berthold to San Diego to Fort Totten, all within a few weeks, and now back home in Santa Monica. I spent a lot of time with the staff at Spirit Lake Vocational Rehabilitation Project, had dinner with teachers […]
Unexpected Lessons
Making a bilingual game is more than twice the work of making an English-only game. Not only do you need to have everything written in Spanish and English but you also need to create functions that make everything change from Spanish to English (and back again). To add a layer […]
Making Bilingual Games with Help from jQuery
In an interesting juxtaposition of events, I was teaching judo yesterday and then came home to finish up our final report on the Dakota Learning Project, which is the official name of the two-year grant we received from the USDA to create math games. Laying out the design of our […]
Why I teach math like I teach judo
Whether we’re talking about a certified in the largest school district in the country or a parent helping a child with homework, the best case scenario is individual attention from a competent, caring adult. So, what if that competent, caring adult has the flu and you have a substitute who […]
Education Still Happens When the Teacher Isn’t There
Having raised four teenagers and taught hundreds of others, I’m very familiar with their brand of honesty. You might think that I would not be thrilled to get a game review from one, but … It was 7 pm, a couple of hours before I normally knock off working, and […]
Drake Defeats Apathy
How much money do you need? Once you’ve reached a threshold where you can provide for the basics of food, clothing and shelter, extra dollars really don’t buy you much happiness. This is a finding that isn’t completely without its detractors but I have found it to be largely […]