I have just come back from a trek through Washington, DC. and Denham Springs, Louisiana. In a few weeks, I’m heading out to North Dakota. How does that justify tearing apart our website? It’s like this …. once you get out of the Silicon Beach / Silicon Valley bubble you […]
AnnMaria De Mars
Some days, I am delighted with 7 Generation Games. Having read the research that says that a large proportion of small businesses don’t survive their first year, and a majority aren’t around five years later, the fact that we’re still here makes me happy. Other days, I can get a […]
Every day, we get better
We are beyond delighted to announce that we have been funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for our Small Business Innovation Research proposal, Aztech Games. Today, I’d like to answer four questions: What is Aztech Games? Why would the Department of Agriculture fund a game that teaches math, social […]
How is Aztech Games Like an Automatic Door?
Since we successfully completed our Kickstarter campaign  we haven’t had too much to say about Forgotten Trail. Yes, everyone received their awards in the mail; t-shirts, posters and postcards. ( If you did not, email info@7generationgames.com ) What’s actually happening on the game? One of those who bought a game character sent […]
Forgotten Trail is Not Forgotten
One nice part of working at 7 Generation Games is hearing from people who play our games. Here are a few that made my day. Some are from a middle school where I had the opportunity to meet student in person and several followed up with letters (which I’ll bet […]
Mail Call
When we started 7 Generation Games, we made some effort to interest angel investors. We had a few meetings with people who either: Told us flat out they didn’t think our company had commercial potential, including one who said, and I quote, “No one is interested in Indians” and another, […]
Not Getting Early Investor Money Was the Best Thing That ...
No one is ever going to give me $3 million in seed money just because I have an idea. I am not white enough, young enough, male enough and not only did I not drop out of an Ivy League school, I actually stuck around the University of California (a […]
When Disadvantages Are a Blessing
Going through our archives, we came across this great post from May 14, 2013,“Four Things Students Should Have Learned in School but Didn’t” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. Here are four more of Dr. De Mars 55 things I have learned […]
Throwback Thursday: Four Things Students Should Have Learned in School ...
We’re almost done adding the polish to Spirit Lake. That’s polish, as in making all shiny and perfect, “polish your car”, not “Polish” as in sausage. The first change you’ll see from earlier versions is that the introductory 2-D hunting scene is replaced by a really short 3-D game. As […]
Spirit Lake Polish
We left off last time having created a form, written HTML and CSS, initializing the variables and selecting two random integers within a range we specified. Our next step is to put those numbers into a problem. That function is shown below. // CREATING A PROBLEM function getProb() { $('#mathform').show(); […]
Making a mini-game: Step 3 Getting the problem
2 Note: This is a step-by-step example of how to go about creating a mini-game. In this example, you get an animated pet dog. For every multiplication problem you solve, you and your dog get to do more activities. To see the first post in the series, Game Design, click here. […]
Making a Mini-Game Step 2: Setting it up
Going through our archives, we came across this great post from May 23, 2013,“Schoolchildren questions for statisticians” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. It must be that time of year because I was asked to speak at two different schools in downtown […]