I completely disagree that anyone can build an educational game, or even any game programmer or educator. You need to understand the area of education you are trying to teach, in our case, math. You also need to understand what makes kids play a game, what kids need to learn, […]
AnnMaria De Mars
PART A Were you one of our backers on Kickstarter? Do you work in education? Do you home-school your children? PART B Will you be in Las Vegas on July 5th? If you answered yes to any of the questions in Part A and to Part B then you are […]
Tweet-up / Meet-up at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas
AnnMaria here. The last week I have been working on a “Level 0”. This is because some teachers have told us their students have difficulty playing the game initially because they aren’t sure which keys to use to do what. The space bar jumps, the ctrl (control) key shoots […]
Level Zero: Progress!
It has been a year and three days since we formed 7 Generation Games as a partnership. We should be incorporated in the state of California very shortly. All of our spare time – as well as the time we haven’t been able to spare – has been devoted to […]
Happy Birthday to Us
First of all, for those of you who asked about their autographed photos for the Kickstarter awards – we sent out 150 photos over the last two weeks and ran out of signed photos. Ronda is coming over to the office today to sign the rest and they will go […]
A Slight Delay in Artwork: Congrats Justin & Shirley!
Beta Test Feedback So far, the beta test responses have been overwhelmingly positive. The biggest complaint we have received is from testers who want MORE of the game and wish they did not have to wait six months for more levels. Well, you’ll get half of what you want. […]
Fish! (Oh, and progress.)
Last year, I was at Universal Studios, looking at a second-story window. Last month, I was at Disneyland thinking about the same thing. Did you ever think about why you pay so much more for a theme park than say, the fair your kid’s school puts on? Both have rides […]
What Theme Parks Taught Me about Game Design
We have been working madly on the game the last few days and it is looking really good. Everyone who saw our earlier versions and the one now is impressed by the progress. What we are doing now getting ready to send out usernames to download your beta version is […]
Have it Right, or Have it Now
Game update The photo above was drawn by one of our artists in part for “clip art.” That is, the arrows, dream catcher and different parts of it are clipped out when we need decoration on a page. Sometimes we’ll have a memory game that includes both answers and equations […]
Indigenous Story and Art Development
Perhaps we should start identifying ourselves when we post. Hi, it’s AnnMaria, sometimes game designer, sometimes web developer and all of the time President. I’m ecstatic to be working on the game today with Dr. Carol Davis from the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. We sketched out seven levels. […]
Clans: Beginning game two
Four things are happening in the next few months. We are adding a level with fight scenes! This will be interesting because we want to make it authentic. One of our cultural consultants talked about how combatants in a knife fight would hold their knives and attack. We’re a bit […]