What is the calorie content of the average rabbit? When I was in graduate school studying multivariate statistics, I never guessed this would be one of the questions I’d ask in a typical work day. As part of our look into what a game developer does all day, I’m going […]
AnnMaria De Mars
I’m back! It’s been a while since I was on the blog, between Spirit Lake, Turtle Mountain and Las Vegas. Kind of ironic that I don’t gamble since so much of my time is spent staying in hotels with casinos. After two weeks of meeting with teachers and students in […]
Meanwhile, back at the office … Perseverance
The top scorer in the Fish Lake game for last week was … Tiger5 The first two players to finish our new release of the Spirit Lake game are TTMcGarvey4 TTMcGarvey13 They are moving on to Fish Lake, so the Tiger may have some competition!
And we have a winner !
We drove out to Warwick, North Dakota last week. If you wondered what the scenery was like, it all pretty much looked like this. It was worth it, though, because we met a lot of really smart people. One of them, Dean Dauphinais, is the Superintendent of Warwick Schools and […]
A Virtual Eagle Feather to our High Scorer of the ...
Lately, I’m feeling like Ben & Jerry – or maybe it’s Snapple. At any rate, some northeastern, cold weather states consumable product where they got their company off the ground by going to all of the local stores and talking the individual store owners into trying their product and seeing […]
Ben & Jerry Visit North Dakota
I had a few other topics I wanted to write posts about – our mini-games, changing the language for each game, future activities planned in the game, all of the changes we have made and will be making to align with common core – but time’s up. In about 12 […]
Hi Ho Hi Ho It’s Off to North Dakota We ...
When I tell other entrepreneurs that I am half of the development team for 7 Generation Games, I’m met with a variety of reactions, few of them good. Polite disbelief: “So, you just use like Dreamweaver or WordPress to clean up some html, right?” Um, wrong. Disapproval: “As CEO, aren’t […]
Coding Your Own Stunts: Good or Bad?
The fact is, this is what teachers will be expected to teach and students will be expected to learn at specific grade levels.
Our Support for Common Core
The most exciting part about working in a start-up, and particularly at 7 Generation Games, is all of the new ideas that we are going to make happen. Right now, I’m adding Ojibwe to our newest game, Fish Lake. I designed the games so that a new language could be […]
In with the new!
This is one of my occasional posts for those of you interested in how software is made – at least at 7 Generation Games. There have been a lot of articles lately saying start-ups need to talk about their failures as well as successes. I can’t say we have had […]
Development in the Past Year
One of the questions I get asked a lot is “How do you get so much done?” I sometimes think that growing up without advantages can be an advantage. For example, when I was a kid, I never had my own room. I always shared it with my sister, or […]
The Secret to Productivity: Don’t Be Easily Bothered
This week, we attended a two-day event for winners of the USDA Small Business Innovation Research awards. In a nutshell, the SBIR awards are given in two phases. The first phase is $100,000 for eight months to develop a prototype. That’s the money USDA gives you, you can spend more […]